A native of the United States, Fiona Apple was born on September 13, 1977. Between 1996 and 2020, she published five albums, all of which peaked in the top 20 of the U.S. Billboard 200 list. Three Grammy Awards, two MTV Video Music Awards, one Billboard Music Award, and other accolades and nominations have all been given to Apple. Apple, the youngest child of actor Brandon Maggart, was born in New York City and spent most of her childhood moving back and forth between her parents’ residences in Los Angeles and New York. When she was eight years old, she started writing her own songs after receiving classical piano training as a young child. She won a Grammy Award for her 1996 first album, Tidal, which featured songs she had written while still in her adolescence.
Where did Fiona Apple go to college and high school?
Fiona Apple, a former singing prodigy in her teens, attended St. Hilda’s and St. Hugh’s School. Apple started taking Model Mugging courses and learning self-defense, but she continued to have panic attacks as she walked home from school, so she moved to Los Angeles for a year to live with her father. Apple spent her second year of high school at Alexander Hamilton High School in Los Angeles.
Apple claimed in a 2000 interview that she did not compose songs about the trauma associated with her rape, despite claims made by journalists to the contrary: “It is not written into the text. It is a tedious torture. There is nothing romantic about it because it is such an old grief.”
