Artist: Gwen Stefani Genre(s):
Dance
Rock
ROck: Alternative
Rock: Pop-Rock
Other
House
Discography:
Now That You Got It Year: 2007
Tracks: 4
4 In The Morning (Thin White Duke Mixes) Year: 2007
Tracks: 4
The Sweet Escape Year: 2006
Tracks: 13
Maximum Gwen Stefani Year: 2005
Tracks: 11
Hollaback Girl Single Year: 2005
Tracks: 3
Hollaback Girl Year: 2005
Tracks: 3
What You Waiting for?(Remixes) Year: 2004
Tracks: 8
What You Waiting For? Single Year: 2004
Tracks: 3
Love. Angel. Music. Baby. Year: 2004
Tracks: 13
Before she observed she could drop a line songs, Gwen Stefani was looking at forrader to a life of marriage, children, and white picket fences. When her chum introduced her to ska and new wave euphony, it set turned a chain of events that would finally lead to millions of albums sold and a Madonna-sized world look-alike that protracted past tense music and into the worlds of film, mode, and technology.
Born and raised in Fullerton, CA, Stefani had a musical three Kings' Day at the age of 17. She had fallen in love with the Madness and Selecter records her chum, Eric Stefani, was playing perpetually. Seeing Fishbone, the Untouchables, and other bands tortuous in Los Angeles' ska revitalization shot but strengthened her interest in music, so she was more than than ready when her blood brother asked her to join a ska band he was forming with a ally named John Spence. Gwen in the beginning shared out jumper cable vocals with Spence simply in December of 1987 he committed suicide, departure the band -- nowadays called No Doubt -- with an changeable future. According to legion interviews with the bandmembers after their breakthrough, Gwen was the glue that held No Doubt together during these hard multiplication, pushing the group to stay fresh nerve-wracking. She was too romantically byzantine with the band's bass player, Tony Kanal, by this prison term.
After acting legion gigs and parties, No Doubt were sign to Interscope in 1991. The label considered their 1992 debut record album a flop and refused to financially support a go or further recordings, just the band refused to give up. The self-financed
Lighthouse Street Collection appeared in 1994 and did intimately enough to make things nice with Interscope, simply the band was formerly over again expiration through a traumatic period behind the scenes. Eric Stefani left to become an animator for
The Simpsons and Gwen and Tony's relationship had complete. Gwen wrote a compendium of songs focused on grief and rebirth that would become No Doubt's third album,
Tragic Kingdom, and the rest, as they say, is history.
With the blast singles "Exactly a Girl," "Spiderwebs," and "Don't Speak," the album reached the number one spot in Billboard and garnered two Grammy nominations. The iron began to focus on Stefani's role in the band. Voted one of People magazine's "50 Most Beautiful People," video and pic shoots focused on her and rumors spreading that the early three members of the band were infelicitous with the want of attention they received. This subject of discussion continued as the band released
Return of Saturn in 2000 and
Rock Steady a year subsequently, simply it was overshadowed during this clip by new comment -- Stefani's quixotic relationship with Bush's frontman, Gavin Rossdale. She too started doing some influence outside the band, loaning her vocals to the remix of electronica creative person Moby's "Southside" and knocker Eve's "Lease Me Blow Your Mind." In 2002, she arrived 45 minutes late for her wedding with Rossdale in London.
After
Rock Steady, No Doubt took a break. Stefani approached Kanal around producing an offhanded solo envision that would be influenced by her non-ska favorites. Prince, the Time, Club Nouveau, and Madonna were the names thrown around and the thought was to lay down the propose "fast and easy." Over prison term, the "fast and easy" book morphed into something practically larger. Old quaker, one-time labelmate, and reach ballad maker Linda Perry became involved and the contrive became much more than polished, slick, and dance-oriented. A stack of high profile collaborators -- Dr. Dre, the Neptunes, Dallas Austin, Andre 3000, Nellee Hooper, Jimmy Jam, and Terry Lewis -- became involved. In September of 2004, the infectious and hyper dance single "What You Waiting For?" appeared with its ensuant video recording autocratic MTV.
The album,
Love.Saint.Music.Baby., strike the shelves in November with surreal graphics that introduced Stefani's four-woman "posse comitatus," the Harajuku Girls. The all-Asian Harajuku Girls were divine by Stefani's fascination with the Harajuku girls of Japan, young club kids world Health Organization make a light-minded and fun posture toward fashion. Appearing with Stefani alive, in videos, and in photos, the Girls quickly drew criticism from the Asian community, raging about the rumor that they had to sign a contract to ne'er verbalise English even though they could, and that Stefani's Girls looked null like the "real" Harajuku girls. Based on a dancehall cover of Fiddler on the Roof's "If I Were a Rich Man," "Rich Girl" became the following smash individual with the anthem "Hollaback Girl" decorous achiever number three. While the singles were overlooking pop and dance radio, Stefani appeared as Jean Harlow in Martin Scorsese's
The Aviator. With music and movies chequered turned, Stefani stirred into the world of fashion and introduced her clothing line of merchandise L.A.M.B. Taking her influence to the world of technical school, she designed the Harajuku Lovers' 4.1 MP Digital Camera for Hewlett-Packard. The camera was released in a limited version with a Stefani-designed casing and biographic DVD.
Late in 2005, Stefani discovered she was significant, only her agenda remained fussy in 2006: along with working on
L.A.M.B., she released a line of limited edition Gwen Stefani manner dolls complete with outfits from her videos and tours, and worked on her second solo record album with producers including Akon, Swizz Beatz, and Nellee Hooper, as well as the Neptunes and Tony Kanal. That spring, Stefani gave nascency to a boy, Kingston James McGregor Rossdale. The Neptunes-produced "Air current It Up" arrived that fall and heralded the full-length
The Sweet Escape, which was released on the same day as the live DVD
Harajuku Lovers Live.
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