Alongside the likes of Jewell, Alanis Morissette and Tori Amos, Fiona Apple was
part of a wave of smart, kooky, female singer-songwriters who came to prominence
in the mid-1990s and brought melodic, off-kilter ballads back into the charts.
Born into a musical and theatrical New York family on September 13th, 1977, she
was still only 19 when debut album Tidal (1996) went triple platinum, while
single “Criminal” won a Grammy Award for Best Female Vocal and was voted as the
year's best track by Rolling Stone. Her dramatic piano playing and
heart-on-sleeve storytelling brought more s...