Natalie Anne O'Shea Merchant was the original lead-singer for the alt rock band 10,000 Maniacs which she joined in 1981, while attending Jamestown Community College. Merchant left the band in 1993 after releasing more than five albums with the band, to purse a solo career. Her first solo album, Tigerlily (1995) and produced three top forty hit songs in the US "Carnival", "Jealousy" and "Wonder" as her signature alt-folk sound scored big with listeners. Her second solo album Ophelia (1998) scored her the biggest hit of her career with the single "Kind & Generous". Merchant's next album Motherland (2001) was dedicated to the victims and families of the September 11th terrorist attacks - even though it was finished days before the attacks. Then in 2003 she released the much more folky The House Carpenter's Daughter, which was critically well received but failed to chart. Merchant has had to retrospectives released in recent years but has been relatively inactive since The House Carpenter's Daughter.
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