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American musician (born )

Fiona Apple McAfee-Maggart (born September 13, ) is an American singer-songwriter. Noted for her songwriting, she released five albums from to , all of which reached the top 20 on the U.S. Billboard chart.^[1] Apple has received numerous awards and nominations, including three Grammy Awards, two MTV Video Music Awards, and a Billboard Music Award.

The youngest daughter of the actor Brandon Maggart, Apple was born in New York City and was raised alternating between her mother's home in New York and her father's in Los Angeles.

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Classically trained on piano as a child, she began composing her own songs when she was eight years old. Her debut album, Tidal, containing songs written when she was in her teens, was released in and received a Grammy Award for Best Female Rock Vocal Performance for the single "Criminal". She followed with When the Pawn (), produced by Jon Brion, which was also critically and commercially successful Fiona Apple, Live In Concert: SXSW 2012 - NPR WATAN