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Charlyn Marie "Chan" Marshall (born January 21, 1972),〔(Colin Larkin, ''The Encyclopedia of Popular Music'', Omnibus Press, 27 May 2011 )〕 better known by her stage name Cat Power, is an American singer-songwriter, musician, occasional actress, and model. Cat Power was originally the name of Marshall's first band, but has come to refer to her as a solo artist. Marshall was discovered opening for Liz Phair in 1994 by Steve Shelley of Sonic Youth and Tim Foljahn of Two Dollar Guitar, with whom she recorded her first two albums, ''Dear Sir'' (1995) and ''Myra Lee'' (1996), on the same day in 1994. In 1996 she signed with Matador Records, and released a third album of new material with Shelley and Foljahn, ''What Would the Community Think''. Following this she released the critically acclaimed ''Moon Pix'' (1998), recorded with members of Dirty Three, and ''The Covers Record'' (2000), a collection of sparsely recorded cover songs. After a brief hiatus she reemerged in 2003 with ''You Are Free'', featuring guest musicians Dave Grohl and Eddie Vedder, followed by the soul-influenced ''The Greatest'' (2006), recorded with numerous Memphis studio musicians, and a second covers album, ''Jukebox'' (2008). In 2012 she released the self-produced ''Sun'', which opened at number 10 on the Billboard 200, the highest charting album of her career to date. Critics have noted the constant evolution of Cat Power's sound, with a "mix of punk, folk and blues" on her earliest albums, and elements of soul and other genres more prevalent in her later material. Her 2012 album ''Sun'' incorporated electronica, in a self-proclaimed move from the "really slow guitar songs" she initially wrote for the album. ==Early life== Charlyn Marshall was born in Atlanta, Georgia, in 1972. Marshall's father, Charlie, is a blues musician and pianist. Her parents divorced when she was a child and remarried shortly thereafter.〔 Her mother remarried, and the family travelled around a lot because of her stepfather's job. Marshall attended ten different schools throughout the southern United States in places such as Greensboro; Bartlett and Memphis and throughout Georgia and South Carolina. At times she was left with her grandmother. She was not allowed to buy records when she was growing up, but she listened to her stepfather's record collection which included such artists as Otis Redding, Creedence Clearwater Revival and The Rolling Stones, as well as her parents' records, which included Black Flag, Sister Sledge, and Barry White.〔 Marshall has stated that religion was large part of her Southern upbringing; her father was a Jehovah's Witness,〔 though she attended Southern Baptist churches with her grandmother, where she began singing while learning hymns. Marshall commented on her religious upbringing, stating: "You know, my grandmother was very religious growing up and she taught me from a very young age that Satan is bad and God is good. But you tell a child about Satan and demons and saints and angels, and with a child's imagination, it just becomes a part of your mind. As an adult, you have to really remember that it's all just folk tales. Like werewolves, that kind of thing."〔 Marshall became estranged from her mother at 16, having no contact with her until she was 24 and says they are still not close. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Cat Power」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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