Claire L. Evans is an American singer, writer and artist based in

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. She is the lead singer of the pop duo

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. Evans joined YACHT in 2008 after sharing a "mystical experience" with collaborator

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and has recorded four albums, namely ''

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'', ''

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'', '' I Thought the Future Would Be Cooler'', and ''Chain Tripping'' with Bechtolt. She also appeared as a guest on YACHT's third album '' I Believe in You. Your Magic Is Real''. Known for her androgynous onstage persona as a performer, she has been called a "neo- Annie Lennox" by ''

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music journalist

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has referred to her as "one of the most striking performers I've seen in a rock band". In addition, Evans is a

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and author of '' Broad Band: The Untold Story of the Women Who Made the Internet''. With a popular science and culture blog titled Universe, hosted by National Geographic's

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network, her essay for Universe "Moon Art: Fallen Astronaut" was anthologized in ''The Best Science Writing Online 2012''. She also writes for ''Vice'', ''The Guardian'', ''Wired'' and ''Aeon''. In August 2013, she became the editor-in-chief of ''OMNI Reboot'', a new online version of the science magazine '' OMNI''. She is the former Futures Editor of Motherboard, ''

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s technology and science website. She is a member of the feminist collective Deep Lab. She is the creator of the App 5 Every Day.

Works

* ''Broad Band'', Penguin Random House, 2018. * ''Terraform: Watch/Worlds/Burn'', MCD x FSG Originals, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York, 2022.

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* * * Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Musicians from Portland, Oregon American electronic musicians American science writers {{US-singer-stub