Laura Phillips "Laurie" Anderson (born June 5, 1947) is an American experimental performance artist and musician who plays violin and keyboards and sings in a variety of experimental music and art rock styles. Initially trained as a sculptor, Anderson did her first performance-art piece in the late 1960s. Throughout the 1970s, Anderson did a variety of different performance-art activities. She became widely known outside the art world in 1981 when her single "O Superman" reached number two on the UK pop charts. She also starred in and directed the 1986 concert film Home of the Brave.
Anderson has invented several devices that she has used in her recordings and performance art shows. In 1977, she created a tape-bow violin that uses recorded magnetic tape on the bow instead of horsehair and a magnetic tape head in the bridge. In the late 1990s, she developed a talking stick, a six-foot-long batonlike MIDI controller that can access and replicate different sounds.
1982 - Big Science
1984 - Mister Heartbreak
1989 - Strange Angels
1994 - Bright Red
1995 - In Our Sleep
1995 - The Ugly One with the Jewels and Other Stories
2000 - Talk Normal - Anthology
2001 - Life On A String
2002 - Live in City Hall NYC
2007 - Big Science - 25th anniversary edition
2010 - Homeland
2015 - Heart of a Dog
