Ĭlark released her debut album, Marry Me, on Jon Beggars Banquet Records. The name is also a reference to her great-grandmother, whose middle name was St. Vincent's hospital" (from Cave's song "There She Goes my Beautiful World", from the album Abattoir Blues/The Lyre of Orpheus). In an interview on The Colbert Report, she said that she "took moniker from a line in a Nick Cave song" that referred to the hospital where Dylan Thomas died: "And Dylan Thomas died drunk in / St. In 2006, she began recording a studio album under the stage name St. During this period she recorded and released an EP entitled Paris is Burning. Clark left the Polyphonic Spree and joined Sufjan Stevens' touring band in 2006. In 2004, she joined Glenn Branca's 100-guitar orchestra for the Queens performance, and was also briefly in a noise-rock band called the Skull Fuckers. Shortly after leaving Berklee, she returned home to Texas, where she joined the Polyphonic Spree just before they embarked on a European tour. 1" and studied with Professor of Guitar Lauren Passarelli. She also worked with Heavy Rotation Records, where "she revealed a much more private and intimate rendering of 'Count' for Dorm Sessions Vol. In 2003, Clark released an EP with fellow Berklee students entitled Ratsliveonnoevilstar. While all that is good and has its place, at some point you have to learn all you can and then forget everything that you learned in order to actually start making music." 2003–2007: Career beginnings and Marry Me
The things they can teach you are quantifiable. In retrospect, she said, "I think that with music school and art school, or school in any form, there has to be some system of grading and measurement. She left after three years, feeling that art institutions such as Berklee were sometimes focused more on the aesthetics of art than the product. She attended the Berklee College of Music in Boston, Massachusetts, studying with Professor Lauren Passarelli.
In 2001, she graduated from Lake Highlands High School, where she participated in theater and the school's jazz band, and was a classmate of actor Mark Salling. She began playing her first real guitar at age 12 and worked some of her teenage years as a roadie for her aunt and uncle, the guitar-vocal jazz duo Tuck & Patti. When she was five, her mother gave her a red plastic guitar from a Target store for Christmas.
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Īs a child, Clark was fond of Ritchie Valens and the movie La Bamba. She has four brothers and four sisters from her parents' blended families. She was raised Catholic and Unitarian Universalist. She has said that a 23andMe DNA test revealed her ancestry to be 80% Irish and 20% Ashkenazi Jewish. Her parents divorced when she was three, and when she was seven she moved with her mother and two older sisters to Dallas, Texas. Her mother is a social worker and administrator for a nonprofit organization, and her stepfather works in corporate tax administration. Life and career 1982–2002: Early life Ĭlark was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma, on September 28, 1982.