PHOEBE LEGERE is a TRANSMEDIA ARTIST. She uses many different forms of media:   film, music, installation, electronics, paint, circuits, invented instruments, traditional instruments, performance art, poetry, costumes and movement.

Her hybrid artform explores the reciprocal relationships between disciplines in an interaction of location, science, music, painting, television and gender.  The New York Times noted that Legere   "plays the piano with enormous authority in a style that encompasses Chopin, blues, ragtime, bebop and beyond, and she brings to her vocal delivery a four and a half octave range, and an extraordinary palette of tonal color and meticulous phrasing." Interview Magazine called her "a genius." Billboard Magazine raved, "She is the female Frank Zappa!."   Where Magazine called her a "brilliant songwriter." Variety said, "Phoebe Legere is a superb singer." But Legere is both an artist and a composer: she often frames music in layers of visual meaning.

Phoebe Legere's parents were both visual artists. Her grandparents were all musicians. Phoebe started playing the piano at age 3. She started oil painting at age 5. Legere composed her first song, "Grasshopper Willy" at age 6.

Phoebe Legere is fluent in both art and music. She is at home in any art form. As Studs Terkel said on NPR, "Phoebe Legere is multi-gifted and she is good."

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