Josephine Foster is an American singer, songwriter, and musician from

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. She is known for her anachronistic voice and work that weaves older styles with the modern, escaping simple classification. As a teenager Foster worked as a church singer and aspired to become an opera singer. She moved to Chicago in 1998 to further her opera studies, and began home-recording her songs, resulting in the albums ''There Are Eyes Above'', influenced by

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, and an album of children's songs, ''Little Life''. She then released collaborative albums with local folk bands The Children's Hour (''SOS JFK''), Born Heller (''S/T''), as well as '' All the Leaves Are Gone'', a psychedelic rock album with backing band The Supposed. A number of solo records followed, including the all acoustic '' Hazel Eyes, I Will Lead You'', an unorthodox collection of 19th century German

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er titled '' A Wolf in Sheep's Clothing'', and '' This Coming Gladness'', a psychedelic folk-rock album. Foster released most of her recordings the following decade with

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, including ''Graphic as a Star'', her settings of 27

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poems. Thereafter she began to record frequently with engineer Andrija Tokic, who co-produced with Foster her solo albums ''Blood Rushing'', ''I'm A Dreamer'', and ''Faithful Fairy Harmony''; also ''More Amor'', a psych-folk album by her new band Mendrugo formed with Victor Herrero. The latter was Foster's first foray into writing lyrics in Spanish. The title song from ''I'm A Dreamer'' was featured in Season 2, episode 7 of the British television show ''

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''. Foster also lent her voice to the soundtrack for the 2020 film, ''

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,'' and sung (as well as co-wrote) the titular song over the end credits.

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