Baby Dee is a performance artist, songwriter, classically trained harpist, circus veteran, and street legend. Baby Dee was born in 1953 in Cleveland, OH. She spent 10 years as music director and organist for a Catholic church in the Bronx before joining the circus at Coney Island. This landed her a gig as the band leader for performance art group the Bindlestiff Family Circus and a tour with the Kamikaze Freak Show in Europe. After moving back to New York City, she became a fixture in lower Manhattan with a street act on a high-rise tricycle with a concert harp. In 2009, Drag City released the critically acclaimed Safe Inside the Day with the help of friends Will Oldham, Matt Sweeney and Andrew WK. April 20, 2010 Drag City will release the follow-up album Book of Songs for Anne Marie.

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