Prima Donna

Not to end up being confused with an Austin, TX-based clothing called the Prima Donnas (whose record Medications, Sex & Discotheques premiered on Peek-a-Boo Information in 2001) or the Los Angeles-based punk music group Prima Donna, the Prima Donna profiled within this bio is a female-fronted substitute pop/rock and roll group from Philadelphia. Not really everyone that has used Philly’s Prima Donna is certainly a female; the group provides used various man drummers and bassists on the way. But the primary of the group is certainly feminine, and which includes lead vocalist Debbie Kernan aswell as twin sisters Gina and Tina Cieri. Gina Cieri provides put on different hats with Prima Donna; furthermore to playing business lead guitar, rhythm electric guitar and keyboards, she’s provided history vocals. Tina Cieri, in the meantime, also provides tempo guitar and history vocals for Prima Donna. Although people in the Philly rock and roll scene determined Kernan with Prima Donna in the past due ’90s and early- to middle- 2000s, she had not been area of the group’s first lineup. Formed with the Cieri sisters (who’ve done a lot of the composing), Prima Donna experienced various incarnations prior to the appearance of Kernan in 1998 — and in the future, Kernan’s business lead vocals were a fundamental element of Prima Donna’s audio. Prima Donna continues to be Kernan’s most noticeable rock and roll gig; before 1998, the Philly citizen (who includes a experts degree in British and posting and a in movie theater) sang mainly popular specifications and traditional music. But she experienced always wished to sing rock and roll, and Prima Donna offered her that chance. The users of Prima Donna possess cited more information on artists as affects — some male plus some feminine, some from THE UNITED STATES and some from your English Isles. Those affects range between Blondie, the Pretenders, Stomach, Pearl Jam, the Clash and U2 towards the Beatles, Pat Benatar, David Bowie and Bruce “The Manager” Springsteen. Although Prima Donna was carrying out around Philadelphia (with some gigs in NEW YORK aswell) before Kernan arrived up to speed, the group didn’t record any albums until four years after her introduction. DEVOID OF Fun, Prima Donna’s debut recording, was released around the group’s personal label, Prima Donna Music, in 2002; the disk loved airplay on a lot more than 65 university radio stations in america. Prima Donna hoped to record another recording sometime in 2005.