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Johnette Napolitano was born and raised in Los Angeles, the eldest of five children [4] in an Italian American family. [5] [6]Her parents recognized their daughter possessed musical talent when, as a child, she was able to play "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" on piano by ear. [5]
Singer-songwriter and bassist Johnette Napolitano first formed a group with former Sparks bassist James Mankey on guitar in Los Angeles in 1982. Their first recording was the song "Heart Attack," released under the band name Dreamers on the compilation album The D.I.Y. Album (1982). [1]
A press release for the Vowel Movement album stated, "Holly and Johnette formed the band on New Year's Eve in 1993 when neither of them had a date. They drank, smoked pot, did each others Tarot cards, then the I-Ching, drank some more, Johnette picked up her bass, Holly got on her drums, Johnette started mumbling, and Vowel Movement was born."
Concrete Blonde lead vocalist Johnette Napolitano said of the album: It was pretty miserable. It's not a happy little disc. We had a string of bad luck and [Bloodletting] was the tail end of it. A particularly bad relationship. It had never happened to me until I was 29 years old. I had a hard time getting over it.
Napolitano returned a few months later with a set of lyrics to form "Damage I've Done", and she then recorded her vocals and provided 'buzz guitar' on the track. [1] Napolitano also contributed vocals on another album track, "Punk Lolita", alongside Debbie Harry and the Heads' bassist Tina Weymouth , as well as backing vocals on "Blue Blue Moon ...
After this period, Crewdson concentrated on writing and recording with Johnette Napolitano, [1] [5] the former singer with LA legends Concrete Blonde.The critically acclaimed Napolitano solo album Scarred was released on Hybrid Recordings in 2007.
A furious husband is reportedly set on divorcing his influencer wife after footage surfaced of her kissing Romeo Santos, the lead singer of Aventura, a popular bachata band who reunited for a 2024 ...
Chris Willman of the Los Angeles Times wrote, "This cheerful-sounding song, one of the year's catchiest, is really about an unhappy birthday, but Napolitano – writing about spending the night of her own 30th at home alone – is following in the great rock 'n' roll tradition of making feeling bad sound good.