Laura Phillips Anderson, known as Laurie Anderson, is an American avant-garde artist, composer, musician and movie director. Her work includes performance art, pop music and multimedia projects. She was first trained in violin and sculpting. Anderson had many performance art projects in New York during the 1970s. She focused mainly on language, technology and visual imagery. She became more widely known outside the art world when her single "O Superman" became number two on the United Kingdom singles chart in 1981. She also starred in and directed the 1986 concert movie Home of the Brave. .