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On October 2, 2018, Van Etten released a new track entitled "Comeback Kid" and announced her next album ''[[Remind Me Tomorrow]]'', released on January 18, 2019.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nme.com/news/music/sharon-van-etten-comeback-kid-new-album-remind-me-tomorrow-2385659|title=Sharon Van Etten shares throbbing new single 'Comeback Kid' and announces album 'Remind Me Tomorrow'|last=Andrew Trendell|date=October 2, 2018|website=Nme.com|access-date=January 19, 2019}}</ref> On February 28, 2019, Van Etten appeared on ''The Ellen DeGeneres Show'' to perform the single "Seventeen".<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.musicnewsnet.com/2019/02/watch-sharon-van-etten-perform-seventeen-on-the-ellen-degeneres-show-.html|title=Watch Sharon Van Etten Perform "Seventeen" on The Ellen DeGeneres Show|website=Musicnewsnet.com|access-date=March 26, 2020}}</ref>
On October 2, 2018, Van Etten released a new track entitled "Comeback Kid" and announced her next album ''[[Remind Me Tomorrow]]'', released on January 18, 2019.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nme.com/news/music/sharon-van-etten-comeback-kid-new-album-remind-me-tomorrow-2385659|title=Sharon Van Etten shares throbbing new single 'Comeback Kid' and announces album 'Remind Me Tomorrow'|last=Andrew Trendell|date=October 2, 2018|website=Nme.com|access-date=January 19, 2019}}</ref> On February 28, 2019, Van Etten appeared on ''The Ellen DeGeneres Show'' to perform the single "Seventeen".<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.musicnewsnet.com/2019/02/watch-sharon-van-etten-perform-seventeen-on-the-ellen-degeneres-show-.html|title=Watch Sharon Van Etten Perform "Seventeen" on The Ellen DeGeneres Show|website=Musicnewsnet.com|access-date=March 26, 2020}}</ref>


=== 2020–present ===
=== 2020–present: ''We've Been Going About This All Wrong'' ===


On April 22, 2020, Van Etten played bass and sang harmony as the three surviving members of [[Fountains of Wayne]] performed in a televised benefit with various New Jersey-affiliated musicians to raise funds for COVID-19 relief. She filled the role left vacant by the COVID-19-related death of [[Adam Schlesinger]] a few weeks earlier. She and the other three members of the band played simultaneously from remote locations. The band played the song "Hackensack" from the album ''[[Welcome Interstate Managers]]''.<ref>https://twitter.com/fountainsofwayn/status/1252364241765494785 {{Bare URL inline|date=November 2021}}</ref>
On April 22, 2020, Van Etten played bass and sang harmony as the three surviving members of [[Fountains of Wayne]] performed in a televised benefit with various New Jersey-affiliated musicians to raise funds for COVID-19 relief. She filled the role left vacant by the COVID-19-related death of [[Adam Schlesinger]] a few weeks earlier. She and the other three members of the band played simultaneously from remote locations. The band played the song "Hackensack" from the album ''[[Welcome Interstate Managers]]''.<ref>https://twitter.com/fountainsofwayn/status/1252364241765494785 {{Bare URL inline|date=November 2021}}</ref>

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Sharon Van Etten
Van Etten in 2019
Background information
Birth nameSharon Katharine Van Etten
Born (1981-02-26) February 26, 1981 (age 43)[1]
Belleville, New Jersey, U.S.
OriginBelleville, New Jersey, United States
Genres
OccupationSinger-songwriter
Instruments
Years active2007 – present
Labels
Websitesharonvanetten.com

Sharon Katharine Van Etten (born February 26, 1981) is an American singer-songwriter. She has released six studio albums, the latest of which is We've Been Going About This All Wrong (2022).

Early life

Van Etten was born in Belleville, New Jersey, the middle child of five.[2] She lived in Nutley, New Jersey, then moved to Clinton, New Jersey as a pre-teen. She attended North Hunterdon High School, at which she participated in the chorus and performed in stage musicals.[3][4][5][6]

Later, she moved to Murfreesboro, Tennessee to attend Middle Tennessee State University and studied recording, but dropped out after a year. She ended up working at the Red Rose, a coffee and record shop and music venue in Murfreesboro for about five years. She fell into an abusive relationship with a rock musician who discouraged her from writing songs. After five years, she left in the middle of the night with whatever she could carry.[7]

In 2004, she moved back to New Jersey, where she worked at Perryville Wine and Spirits, then moved to New York City in 2005. She lived in Brooklyn for a number of years, in the suburban neighborhood of Ditmas Park.[7]

Career

Van Etten at the 2012 Newport Folk Festival

Van Etten self-released handmade CDs until 2009, when her debut studio recording was released.[8][9] Before her studio debut, she worked at Astor Wines and as a publicist at Ba Da Bing Records.[10]

2009: Because I Was in Love

Van Etten's debut, Because I Was in Love, was released on May 26, 2009, on Language of Stone, and was manufactured and distributed by Drag City. Because I Was in Love was produced by Greg Weeks at Hexham Head studio in Philadelphia.[8]

2010: epic

On September 21, 2010, Van Etten released her second album, epic, on Ba Da Bing Records. With no set band at the time, Van Etten called on friends Jeffrey Kish, Dave Hartley, Jessica Larrabee, and Andy LaPlant of She Keeps Bees, Cat Martino, Meg Baird, Jim Callan, and Brian Christinzio. The first song recorded for the album was "Love More", recorded in December 2009 by producer Brian McTear for Weathervane Music's Shaking Through documentary video series. The remainder of the album was produced by Brian McTear with engineer Amy Morrissey in May 2010 at Miner Street Recordings in Philadelphia. NPR described it as possessing "a fuller sound compared to the super-spare arrangements on her first two self-produced albums, but epic still feels incredibly intimate, with lots of room to breathe and unfold."[11]

2012: Tramp

Van Etten in 2013

Van Etten's third studio album, Tramp, was released on February 7, 2012, on Jagjaguwar. Tramp was produced by The National's Aaron Dessner and recorded in his home studio in Brooklyn, New York.[12] Additional recording took place at Miner Street Recordings in Philadelphia, where the album was also mixed with Engineers and Mixers Brian McTear and Jonathan Low. The album features musicians Doug Keith, Thomas Bartlett, Bryan Devendorf, Bryce Dessner, Matt Barrick, Rob Moose, Julianna Barwick, Peter Silberman, Logan Coale, Clarice Jensen, Ben Lanz, Zach Condon, and Jenn Wasner.[13]

2014–2015: Are We There

May 2014 brought about the release of Van Etten's fourth studio album, titled Are We There, on Jagjaguwar.[14] Van Etten produced the record with Stewart Lerman, with the guidance of bandmate and manager Zeke Hutchins. Most of the recording was done at Hobo Sound Studios in Weehawken, New Jersey, with piano tracks being recorded at Electric Lady Studios in New York City.[15] The record features musicians Zeke Hutchins, Doug Keith, Heather Woods Broderick, Dave Hartley, Adam Granduciel, Marisa Anderson, Stuart D. Bogie, Mickey Free, Mary Lattimore, Little Isidor, Jacob Morris, Torres' Mackenzie Scott, Shearwater's Jonathan Meiburg, Lower Dens' Jana Hunter, and Efterklang touring member Peter Broderick. The EP I Don't Want to Let You Down, a compilation of songs that were not included on Are We There, was released on Jagjaguwar in 2015.

2019: Remind Me Tomorrow

On October 2, 2018, Van Etten released a new track entitled "Comeback Kid" and announced her next album Remind Me Tomorrow, released on January 18, 2019.[16] On February 28, 2019, Van Etten appeared on The Ellen DeGeneres Show to perform the single "Seventeen".[17]

2020–present: We've Been Going About This All Wrong

On April 22, 2020, Van Etten played bass and sang harmony as the three surviving members of Fountains of Wayne performed in a televised benefit with various New Jersey-affiliated musicians to raise funds for COVID-19 relief. She filled the role left vacant by the COVID-19-related death of Adam Schlesinger a few weeks earlier. She and the other three members of the band played simultaneously from remote locations. The band played the song "Hackensack" from the album Welcome Interstate Managers.[18]

On May 15, 2020, Van Etten released a cover of (What's So Funny 'Bout) Peace, Love and Understanding? with Queens of the Stone Age frontman Josh Homme.[19]

In October 2020, Van Etten made a song titled "Let Go" for the documentary, Feels Good Man, directed by Arthur Jones about Matt Furie, the creator of Pepe the Frog.[20]

On November 16, 2020, Van Etten released two covers of traditional holiday songs, "Silent Night" and "Blue Christmas".[21]

On May 20, 2021, Van Etten released a single with Angel Olsen, "Like I Used To," which was produced by John Congleton. Olsen and Van Etten appear in the music video with their hair styled in similar shag haircuts.[22]

In 2021 the artist was inter alia part of the Newport Folk Festival in July.[23]

On April 6, 2022, Van Etten announced her album We've Been Going About This All Wrong with a May 6 release date.[24]

Influences and musical style

Van Etten cites Ani DiFranco as a key influence, saying, "She was the first musician I had ever heard whose songs were super confessional. She could really play guitar... That was my first experience with non-pop female musicians. She made me want to start playing more."[25]

Van Etten possesses a contralto vocal range, which Caleb Caldwell of Slant described as "husky".[26] NPR described her vocals as raspy, elegant and luminous,[27] while Consequence called it "earthy".[28] Van Etten's music is characterized by a heavy use of harmonies.[7] Pitchfork described her songs as having "echoes of folk tradition."[8] NPR Music asserts: "Her songs are heartfelt without being overly earnest; her poetry is plainspoken but not overt, and her elegant voice is wrapped in enough rasp and sorrow to keep from sounding too pure or confident."[11] With "Comeback Kid" and Remind Me Tomorrow, Van Etten introduced electronic sounds into her music.[29] She has said, "I listen to a lot of OMD... I'm into a lot of the new post-punk electronic stuff."[25]

Acting

Since 2016, Van Etten has appeared in both seasons of the Netflix drama The OA as Rachel, a fellow abductee along with Prairie in Dr. Percy's basement lab/terrarium.[2] Rachel and the other captives are subjected to after-life experiments while conspiring over a period of years to possibly escape, and at one point, Rachel sings a song of remembrance. Van Etten also appeared in episode six of the 2017 Twin Peaks series on Showtime.[30]

Van Etten made her feature film debut with a supporting role in the 2020 film Never Rarely Sometimes Always directed by Eliza Hittman, for which she also wrote and performed the original track 'Staring at a Mountain'.[31]

Van Etten also appeared in the 2021 film How It Ends as Jet. The film featured two new songs by Van Etten, "How Much I Loved You" and "Till We Meet Again".[32]

Personal life

Van Etten had her first child, a son, in 2017 with her romantic partner Zeke Hutchins. Hutchins used to be her drummer and then became her manager. After living in New York City for 15 years, she moved with her family to Los Angeles in September 2019.[2][33]

Discography

Albums

Other contributions

References

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