Alicia Witt

Alicia Witt first appeared onscreen in 1984, performing Alia Atreides in David Lynch’s version of Frank Herbert’s Dune. She wasn’t also ten years outdated, so it’s small question that she finished up getting pigeonholed as an celebrity rather than a musician, despite the fact that she have been playing piano for at least so long as she have been acting. It really is accurate that she made an appearance onscreen more regularly than she documented, returning to responsibility for Lynch within a 1990 bout of Twin Peaks and regularly turning up on film and tv over another 2 decades, breaking through in the 1995 film Mr. Holland’s Opus and her four-season operate on the sitcom Cybill. During all of this, Witt continuing to focus on the piano. She researched the device at Boston College or university and entered nationwide tournaments, but she initial began to gain interest on her behalf prowess when she starred in the musical Piano/Forte in 2006. 3 years afterwards, Witt produced the change to pop music, launching an eponymous EP that showcased her very clear debt to famous brands Elton John and Billy Joel. 3 years later on arrived Live at Rockwood. Witt finally released her full-length debut Revisionary Background in the springtime of 2015; it had been made by Ben Folds, who was simply dating the vocalist/songwriter during its release.