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City, on September 13, 1977, Apple is the daughter of singer Diane McAfee and actor Brandon Maggart. After growing up with her mother, she moved to Los Angeles to pursue her career in music and got a big break in 1994 when she gave a demo tape to the babysitter of music publicist Kathryn Schenker. Schenker passed the tape along to Sony Music executive Andy Slater, and he signed Apple to a deal. In 1996, Apple's debut album, Tidal, was released by Epic, a subsidiary of Sony. The album went on to sell 2.7 million copies and was certified triple platinum in the U.S. Its breakthrough hit, "Criminal," reached the top forty on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100, while the controversial music video — in which a scantily-clad Apple cavorted in a '70s-era tract house — became very popular on MTV. Apple created even more of a stir when she made a rambling and belligerent speech while accepting the 1997 MTV Video Music Award for "Best New Artist" and refusing to apologize for it later. Her second album, When the Pawn..., was released in 1999 with a much longer title taken from an Apple-penned poem. It did not do as well commercially as her debut, though it was certified platinum album and sold 1 million copies in the U.S. The album's lead single, "Fast as You Can", reached the top 20 on Billboard's Modern Rock Tracks chart and became Apple's first Top 40 hit in the UK, proving that she was still a force to be reckoned with.



Things turned ugly for Apple after she stormed off the stage during a March 2000 New York concert. She didn't emerge again until singing a duet with Johnny Cash in that ended up on his album American IV: The Man Comes Around and was nominated for a Grammy Award for "Best Country Collaboration with Vocals". After a hefty delay, Apple's next solo album, Extraordinary Machine appeared in October 2005 and was Apple's highest charting album to date, debuting at number seven and earning a nomination for a Grammy Award for "Best Pop Vocal Album." Finally, Apple had silenced her critics for a moment and proven there was genuine talent beneath her hostile exterior.