Biography
Jane Wiedlin entered the world on May 20, 1958, in Oconomowoc, Wisconsin. Her earliest recognition arrived as guitarist for the Go-Go’s, where she contributed to landmark tracks such as “We Got the Beat” and “Our Lips Are Sealed,” singles that propelled the band to become the leading female act to surface from the punk and new wave surge spanning the late 1970s and early 1980s. Driven by fresh creative impulses, she departed the lineup in 1984, then issued the charting solo single “Blue Kiss” alongside her self-titled debut album Jane Wiedlin the following year in 1985. An acting path also opened, bringing appearances in films such as Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure and Clue, while her singular vocal work supplied characters for King of the Hill, Batman: The Animated Series, Mission Hill, and Pinky and the Brain, as well as the complete trio of Scooby Doo movies. A second solo effort, Fur, surfaced in 1988 and produced the charting single “Rush Hour”; she followed it in 1990 with Tangled, which generated the MTV favorite “World on Fire.” The Go-Go’s reconvened that same year for a PETA benefit concert and regrouped once more four years afterward in 1994 for an additional reunion and tour. Wiedlin lent her voice to FroSTed’s 1996 debut album Cold, a record partly co-written by Charlotte Caffey, her onetime Go-Go’s colleague. The Go-Go’s assembled yet again in 2000 and delivered the fresh album God Bless the Go-Go's twelve months later in 2001. During that identical year Wiedlin issued her first solo collection in more than ten years, Kissproof World, through her independent Painful Discs imprint.
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