The musician in question is singer/songwriter Amanda Palmer, who recently raised 1.1 million dollars on Kickstarter to support her next tour, "Theater is Evil." Advertisement.

Former Dresden Dolls singer-songwriter Amanda Palmer rocked the recording industry in May by raising nearly $1.2 million on the crowfunding website Kickstarter for her new album Theatre Is Evil ...

Palmer, 48, is an American musician, singer and performance artist. She was one half of the musical duo the Dresden Dolls, a self-styled “punk cabaret”, and lead singer of her band, Amanda ...

Musician Amanda Palmer is gifted at many things: She’s a thoughtful writer, a mesmerizing storyteller, an innovative businesswoman and an expert (if unintentional) stoker of Internet controversy.

As it stands, Palmer is an independent musician churning out music videos, new songs, complete albums, blazingly honest social media diaries and bits of international activism on the daily.

Musician Amanda Palmer talks about how musicians can thrive on the Internet at BitTorrent headquarters in San Francisco, December 2013. Seth Rosenblatt/CNET.

Palmer, 48, is an American musician, singer and performance artist. She was one half of the musical duo the Dresden Dolls, a self-styled “punk cabaret”, and lead singer of her band, Amanda ...

Last week, the singer and pianist Amanda Palmer ignited what can politely be called "hoopla," on the Internet, when it was publicized that the former Dresden Dolls frontwoman – after ...

In June 2012, Amanda Palmer became the first musician to raise more than $1 million on a Kickstarter solicitation.Having left her label, Roadrunner Records, she needed funding to release and ...