Patricia Barber (born November 8, 1955) is an American songwriter, composer, singer, and pianist. Biography Barber's father Floyd was a jazz saxophonist who played with Bud Freeman and Glenn Miller. She played saxophone and piano from a young age, sang in musicals in high school, and studied piano at the University of Iowa in the early 1970s. From there Barber went to Chicago and began performing regularly in bars and clubs. She won a Guggenheim Fellowship in music composition in March 2003, an unusual accomplishment for someone working in the field of popular songwriting. The Guggenheim allowed her to devote time to a song cycle based on Ovid’s Metamorphoses. She is married to musicologist Martha Feldman. Awards and honors She was given a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2003 in the field of Creative Arts – Music Composition. She was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2019. Discography An asterisk (*) indicates that the year is that of release. Source: References External links Official website Patricia Barber collection at the Internet Archive's live music archive Review of Mythologies by JazzChicago.net 1955 births Living people Post-bop singers Post-bop pianists Cabaret singers American blues singer-songwriters American jazz singers American jazz songwriters American jazz pianists Lesbian singers LGBT people from Illinois LGBT people from Nebraska American lesbian musicians American LGBT singers American LGBT songwriters Lesbian songwriters American women jazz singers People from South Sioux City, Nebraska Blue Note Records artists 20th-century American pianists 20th-century American women pianists Jazz musicians from Nebraska 21st-century American pianists 21st-century American women pianists 20th-century LGBT people 21st-century LGBT people Singer-songwriters from Nebraska Antilles Records artists Concord Records artists Women jazz pianists American lesbian writers