Dana Fuchs

Hailed as the brand new Janis Joplin, sometimes before she performed the legendary rock and roll icon within an off-Broadway musical, Dana Fuchs is definitely a raspy-voiced blues-rock singer/songwriter whose versatile job offers embraced music, theater, and film. Given birth to in NJ in 1976, she later on moved to the tiny rural city of Wildwood, Florida with her musically focused family members, where, at age group 12, she started performing in the First Baptist Gospel Choir. Influenced by her parents’ Ray Charles and Hank Williams record collection, she relocated to NY to sing the blues after departing senior high school, where she teamed up with Jon Gemstone, a practiced guitarist who experienced previously performed with Joan Osborne. Collectively, they created the Dana Fuchs Music group, which developed a reputation among the greatest live acts within the city’s blues circuit, resulting in Fuchs getting the lead part in the Eric Nederlander creation of Randall Myler’s Janis Joplin musical, Like Janis. In 2003, they released their 1st album, Lonely for life, through Antler Ruler Information, but Fuchs place the music group on keep until 2008 to be able to concentrate on additional commitments. She starred as Sadie in Julie Taymor’s 2007 Beatles-based musical passionate drama Over the Universe, performing two solos (“Helter Skelter” and “WE WILL GET IT DONE in the street”), made a short cameo in the 2008 ensemble piece NY, I REALLY LIKE You, and composed and performed in the soundtrack towards the Maggie Gyllenhaal film Sherrybaby. After 2008’s Reside in NYC, documented at B.B. King’s, she toured with Ray Davies and Dickey Betts before launching her second studio room album, Want to Beg, via her very own label in 2011.