Penelope Houston (singer)

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Penelope Houston, Chicago 2012

Penelope Houston (born December 17, 1958 in Los Angeles , California ) is an American singer and former member of the punk group Avengers . In 1988 she began a solo career and since then her music has been in folk , folk-rock and rock styles .

Life

Houston was born in Los Angeles and grew up in Seattle . In the mid-1970s she attended Fairhaven College in Bellingham, Washington , an alternative school dominated by hashish- smoking hippies . She made a name for herself by telling people in the dormitory to turn off their music. In 1977 she moved to San Francisco and began studying at the San Francisco Art Institute . In the same year she founded the Avengers with Brad Kent . The punk band stayed together for only a few years, several singles were released and in 1981 an album bearing the band name was released. They made their biggest appearance in 1978 as the opening act for the Sex Pistols in San Francisco. After graduating, Penelope Houston worked on several film projects in Los Angeles and lived for a few years in England, where she worked with Howard Devoto . In 1988 she started her solo career again in San Francisco. She had moved far away from the punk music of The Avengers and released the folk album Birdboys as her debut .

Over the next ten years she released five more albums, two of which, Silk Purse and Crazy Baby , have long since been out of print as they were only available in very small numbers. She also toured Europe and the USA. In 1998 her seventh album Tongue was released , which, unlike her earlier releases, was no longer folk, but rock music . For the recordings for this album she worked with Billie Joe Armstrong , the singer of Green Day . Eighteen Stories Down is the name of their Greatest Hits CD, which was released in June 2003. Her current album from 2004 is called The Pale Green Girl . In 2006, the Avengers reunited with a subsequent tour.

Discography (albums)

  • 1988: Birdboys (Subterranean Records)
  • 1992: The Whole World. (Heyday Records)
  • 1993: Silk Purse (Normal Records)
  • 1994: Karmal Apple (Normal Records)
  • 1994: Crazy Baby (Normal Records)
  • 1996: Cut You ( WEA / Reprise )
  • 1998: Tongue (WEA / Reprise)
  • 2000: Once in a Blue Moon (Penelope.net Records / Normal Records)
  • 2001: Loners, Stoners and Prison Brides (Normal Records)
  • 2003: Eighteen Stories Down - Best-of-CD (WEA)
  • 2004: The Pale Green Girl (DBKWorks)
  • 2012: On Market Street (Glitterhouse Records)

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personal data
SURNAME Houston, Penelope
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American singer
DATE OF BIRTH 17th December 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH Los Angeles , California