Amanda Palmer.

Amanda MacKinnon Gaiman Palmer sometimes known as Amanda Fucking Palmer, is an American performer who first rose to prominence as the lead singer, pianist, and lyricist/composer of the duo The Dresden Dolls. She has since started a solo career, and is also one half of the Evelyn Evelyn duo.Palmer was born in New York City's Mount Sinai Hospital, and grew up in Lexington, Massachusetts. She attended Lexington High School, where she was involved in the drama department, and attended Wesleyan University where she was a member of the Eclectic Society. She staged performances based on work by the Legendary Pink Dots, an early influence, and was involved in the Legendary Pink Dots electronic mailing list, Cloud Zero.[citation needed] She then formed the Shadowbox Collective, devoted to street theatre and putting on theatrical shows (such as the 2002 play, Hotel Blanc, which she directed).In 2010, a reunion tour to selected venues in the United States occurred. It started on Halloween in New York City and ended in San Francisco on New Years Eve.[She has identified as bisexual telling afterellen.com in 2007: "I'm bisexual, but it's not the sort of thing I spent a lot of time thinking about," Palmer said. "I've slept with girls; I've slept with guys, so I guess that's what they call it! I'm not anti trying to use language to simplify our lives. On her blog, Palmer has stated that she had an abortion at age 17. In the same blog post, she stated that she was date raped when she was 20 years old.
On 1 January 2010, she stated on her Twitter feed that she "might have told [Neil Gaiman] [she]'d marry him but also might have been drunk. On 15 January 2010, Gaiman and Palmer confirmed their engagement in an announcement made to their respective websites. On 16 November 2010, Amanda Palmer hosted a flash mob wedding (not legally binding) for Gaiman's birthday in New Orleans. On 3 January 2011, the couple announced, via Twitter, that they had legally married in a private ceremony. The wedding took place in the parlour of writers Ayelet Waldman and Michael Chabon.
Amanda practices meditation and wrote an article titled Melody vs. Meditation for the Buddhist publication Shambhala Sun, that described the struggle between songwriting and being able to clear the mind to meditate. Palmer has also mentioned her pescetarianism on her blog 2011 – Actress in a local production: Cabaret – Boston's Best, Improper Bostonian.
2010 – Artist of the Year – Boston Music Awards.
2010 – Cover of Fake Plastic Trees (Radiohead) named 13th of Paste Magazine's 20 Best Cover Songs of 2010.
2009 – #100 on After Ellen's Hot 100 of 2009.
2008 – #6 on the Best Solo artist list in The Guardian's Readers' Poll of 2008.
2007 – #6 on Spinner.com's Women Who Rock Right Now.
2006 – the Boston Globe named her the most stylish woman in Boston.
2006 – listed in Blender Magazine's hottest women of rock.
2005 – won Best Female Vocalist in the WFNX/Boston Phoenix Best Music Poll.