Fiona Apple McAfee-Maggart is an American singer-songwriter. She released five albums from 1996 to 2020, all of which reached the top 20 on the U.S. Billboard 200 chart. Apple has received numerous awards and nominations, including three Grammy Awards, two MTV Video Music Awards, and a Billboard Music Award.
Apple performing in 2015
Fans in support of Fiona Apple demonstrating outside the NYC headquarters of Sony BMG Music Entertainment in January 2005.
Apple performing in Seattle, Washington, 2006
Apple performing at Terminal 5, New York, 2012
The MTV Video Music Awards is an award show presented by the cable channel MTV to honor the best in the music video medium. Originally conceived as an alternative to the Grammy Awards, the annual MTV Video Music Awards ceremony has often been called the "Super Bowl for youth", an acknowledgment of the VMA ceremony's ability to draw millions of youth from teens to 20-somethings each year. By 2001, the VMA had become a coveted award.
The 1983–1984 Video of the Year "Moon man" award
Radio City Music Hall, site of 12 VMAs, including the first
Nirvana performing at the 1992 MTV Video Music Awards
Kanye West taking the microphone from Taylor Swift at the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards