Tracy Bonham is a twice Grammy-nominated singer-songwriter, violinist, and classically trained multi-instrumentalist whose fearless artistry has spanned three decades. Born in Eugene, Oregon, and trained at Berklee College of Music in Boston and USC in violin, Bonham burst onto the alternative rock scene in 1996 with her debut album The Burdens of Being Upright, which earned her two Grammy nominations, an MTV Video Award Nomination, went gold in the US, Australia, and Canada, and landed her on the cover of magazines and in heavy rotation on MTV and VH1. Her breakthrough hit "Mother, Mother" topped the Billboard Alternative Airplay chart and became an anthem for a generation of women who refused to be silenced. It would hold the record as the last song by a solo female artist to top that chart for seventeen years, until Lorde's "Royals" came along in 2013. MTV first called her an "angry young woman," and then Howard Stern reinforced the label in a memorable interview. The moniker followed her through much of her early career. What the world didn't yet understand was that her fire wasn't anger for its own sake. It was truth-telling. It was the sound of a woman refusing to shrink.