who is Laurie Anderson???

Laurie Anderson was born in Chicago in 1947. She was one of eight children, and she studied the violin and played in the Chicago Youth Symphony as she was growing up. Laurie graduated in 1969 from Barnard College in New York and went on to study at Columbia University, working toward a graduate degree in sculpture. The art scene of the early 1970s in downtown New York attracted Anderson, therefore, some of her earliest performances as a young artist took place on the street or in informal art spaces. In the most memorable of these, Anderson stood on a block of ice, playing her violin while wearing her ice skates. When the ice melted, so did the performance. Since that time, Anderson has gone on to create large-scale theatrical works which combine a variety of media—music, video, storytelling, projected imagery, sculpture. As a visual artist, her work has been shown at the Guggenheim Museum in SoHo, New York, as well as extensively in Europe, including the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris. She has also released seven albums for Warner Bros., including “Big Science,” featuring the song “O Superman” which rose to number two on the British pop charts.  Overall, Laurie Anderson is a pretty remarkable person and artist, meeting her would totally be an honor.