St. Vincent Lyrics

St. Vincent Info:

Birth name:
Anne Erin Clark

Born:
September 28, 1982 ( age )

From:
Tulsa, Oklahoma, United States

Genres:
Indie pop, baroque pop, art rock

Occupations:
Singer-songwriter, musician

Instruments:
Vocals, guitar, bass, keyboards, theremin

Years active:
2003-present

Associated acts:
The Polyphonic Spree, Sufjan Stevens, David Byrne, The National, Bon Iver

Name Origin:
Her stage name is a reference to Saint Vincent's Catholic Medical Center where the Welsh poet Dylan Thomas died in 1953. “It’s the place where poetry comes to die,” she has said. “That’s me.”

The name is also a reference to her great-grandmother, whose middle name was St. Vincent.

In an interview on The Colbert Report, she said that she "took [her] moniker from a Nick Cave song, which references the hospital where Dylan Thomas died."

Taken from the song:
There She Goes, My Beautiful World
(from the album - Abattoir Blues/The Lyre of Orpheus)

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