Artist's albums
Motherland
2001 · album
Live in Concert
1999 · album
Her Story
1999 · single
Ophelia
1998 · album
Tigerlily
1995 · album
Keep Your Courage
2023 · album
Come on, Aphrodite (feat. Abena Koomson-Davis)
2023 · single
Wonder: Introducing Natalie Merchant
2017 · album
Frozen Charlotte
2017 · single
The Butcher's Boy
2017 · single
Butterfly
2017 · album
Rarities (1998-2017)
2017 · album
Paradise Is There: The New Tigerlily Recordings
2015 · album
Carnival
2015 · single
Giving up Everything
2014 · single
Natalie Merchant
2014 · album
Leave Your Sleep
2010 · album
Retrospective 1990-2005 (Deluxe Version)
2005 · album
The House Carpenter's Daughter
2003 · album
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Biography
Over her 40-year career Natalie Merchant has earned a place among America’s most respected recording artists and earned a reputation for being a songwriter of quality through her nine albums as a solo artist and six albums as the lead singer of the group 10,000 Maniacs with Elektra and Nonesuch Records. Merchant has toured extensively and collaborated with a diverse array of artists on stage and in the studio including: Billy Bragg, Philip Glass, David Byrne, The Chieftains, Tracy Chapman, Mavis Staples and Ladysmith Black Mambazo. Though-out her entire career Merchant has been dedicated to supporting a variety of non-profit organizations by lending both financial support and raising public awareness. Scenic Hudson, Riverkeeper, Association to Benefit Children, The Fresh Air Fund,The Center for Constitutional Rights, Doctors Without Borders, Tibet House, Greenpeace, and Planned Parenthood are among the social justice groups to which she has been devoted. In 2007 Merchant served a five-year term on New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA). In 2013 she spearheaded an effort to stop the advance of hydraulic fracturing in New York State with a concert-protest film, Dear Governor Cuomo. Merchant used the same format to address the domestic violence crisis in the Hudson Valley with Shelter(2014).She is currently artist-in-residence with Head Start, developing a music and movement curriculum for pre-school aged children in The Hudson Valley.