Edie Brickell was born March 10, 1966, in Oak Cliff, Texas. Her parents divorced when she was three years old. Though according to a 1989 Spin magazine article she first aspired to play football, her musical career was launched in college. She was attending Southern Methodist University in 1985 when one night she jumped onstage to sing with a band in a local bar. The band, The New Bohemians, welcomed Brickell and she wrote songs for them for the next year. As the band developed, they finally released their debut album, Shooting Rubberbands at the Stars in 1987 under the name Edie Brickell and The New Bohemians.

Their debut album put Edie in the spotlight briefly and rendered the hit single "What I Am." Edie Brickell and The New Bohemians released a follow-up album, Ghost of a Dog, but it was not nearly as successful as their debut, and the group disbanded. Edie retreated briefly from her career before re-emerging as a solo artist.

In 1992, Edie Brickell married Paul Simon who was twenty-five years her senior and had been married twice before; he was fifty when they married. They currently have three children together. Though Edie retreated into the sanctity of marriage and motherhood, her artistic absence from the public was only brief.

She released her first solo album, Picture Perfect Morning, at the end of summer in 1994. Brickell wasn’t looking to return to the spotlight of stardom and was pleased that her album was pleasantly received by fans, but allowed her to remain focused on motherhood. She seemed resolute with putting her personal life before her musical career and didn’t return to recording for almost another decade.

In 2003 she recorded her second solo album Volcano. After a round of appearances on late night television to promote the album, Brickell reunited with The New Bohemians and they released their third album as a group, Stranger Things, sixteen years after their last.

YUDDY