Her career began with the band Odd Girl Out in the early 1990s before releasing her first solo project in 1996.
[2] With Alexis Antes and Victoria Fliegel, Odd Girl Out enjoyed a niche following, particularly on the college scene.
[3] The band got airplay on,[4] and support from, commercial radio stations in the Cleveland market, shortly before media deregulation and consolidation made the practice less common.
In July 1997, Anne E. DeChant released her first solo album, with a more mainstream sound, but departing a bit from her folk roots.
Examples include Girls and Airplanes (gender equality), Green Hand (supporting troops post-war), Swastika (Holocaust denial), 25 (imbalance in economic status), and Second Class Citizen and "What Do You Care" (prejudice and intolerance toward the gay and transgender communities), "World War III" (man-made 'progress' versus destruction of the earth).