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Fiona Apple
Photo: Wikimedia Commons

Fiona Apple

Musician

Born 1977 in the Upper West Side

Born and raised in NYC Wikipedia

Pop Jazz Rock & Punk

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Neighborhoods

Wikipedia ties Fiona Apple to Morningside Heights and Harlem in Manhattan. A tie, not always an origin

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  • Venue

    Radio City Music Hall

    1984–1998

    The first MTV Video Music Awards were held here on 14 September 1984. Madonna came out of a 17-foot wedding cake to sing “Like a Virgin”, and Cyndi Lauper, the night’s most-nominated artist, won Best Female Video for “Girls Just Want to Have Fun”, per Wikipedia. At the 40th Grammy Awards here on 25 February 1998, Erykah Badu and Fiona Apple both performed and won, per Wikipedia and the Recording Academy, and Ol' Dirty Bastard rushed the stage as Shawn Colvin took it to accept Song of the Year, per Wikipedia.

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Also tied to Morningside Heights and Harlem