Meredith Ann Brooks (born June 12, 1958 in Oregon City, Oregon) is an American singer/songwriter and guitarist. She is best known for her 1997 hit song "Bitch". She was nominated for a Grammy Award for the song.
Meredith Brooks was born in Oregon City, Oregon in 1958. Her parents divorced while she was still a child. She and her brother and sister grew up in Corvallis, Oregon and were raised by their mother. At age eleven, Brooks became fascinated with the guitar and she soon learned how to play it. Brooks excelled at academics and skipped several grades in high school, graduating at age 15 from Corvallis High School. In the early 1980s, she moved to Los Angeles to further her career in music. At that time, she recorded the songs that later appeared on See It Through My Eyes. In the later 1980s and early 1990s, she was a member of The Graces, which recorded one album, Perfect View, in 1989.
In the wake of the enormous success of Alanis Morissette in 1995, Brooks landed a major label...
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