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Gwen Renée
Stefani (born October 3, 1969) is an American singer,
songwriter, fashion designer and occasional actress.
Stefani debuted in 1992 as the frontwoman of the third
wave ska band No Doubt. The group's album Tragic Kingdom
(1995) propelled them to stardom and sold more than
fifteen million copies worldwide. It spawned the singles
"Just a Girl", "Spiderwebs", and the
airplay number-one "Don't Speak". The band's
popularity went into decline with its third album Return
of Saturn (2000), but Rock Steady (2001) introduced
dancehall and reggae production into its music, which
generally received positive reviews.
Stefani recorded her first solo album Love. Angel.
Music. Baby. in 2004. The album contains pop and dance
tracks and influence from hip hop and R&B. Its third
single "Hollaback Girl" became the first U.S.
digital download to exceed sales of one million and
"Cool" was one of 2005's most popular radio
singles. The Sweet Escape (2006), Stefani's second solo
album, was preceded by the single "Wind It
Up".
In the media, Stefani is known as a fashion trendsetter,
and she debuted her clothing line, L.A.M.B., in 2003. It
includes many accessories as well as jackets and jeans
and she is producing new material set for an early 2007
release.
Early life: Gwen Stefani was born and raised in
Fullerton, California, and grew up in a Roman Catholic
household. Her mother named her Gwen after a stewardess
in the best-selling 1968 novel Airport, and her middle
name, Renée, comes from The Left Banke's 1968 song
"Walk Away Renée". Her father, Dennis
Stefani, is Italian American and works as a Yamaha
marketing executive. Her mother Patti Flynn is of Irish
and Scottish descent and worked as an accountant before
becoming a homemaker. She has a sister, Jill, and two
brothers, Eric and Todd. Stefani was on the swim team at
Loara High School and graduated in 1987. She then
attended California State University, Fullerton. Her
first job was scrubbing floors at a Dairy Queen, and she
once worked at the makeup counter of a department store.
Her brother Eric was the keyboardist for No Doubt, but
left the band to pursue a career in animation on The
Simpsons.
Career, 1986–present: No Doubt: In 1986, Eric
invited Gwen to provide vocals for No Doubt. The band
released its self-titled debut album in 1992, which was
a commercial failure. No Doubt's third album Tragic
Kingdom (1995), which followed the self-released The
Beacon Street Collection (1995), took more than three
years to make. During this time, the band almost split
up because of the failed romantic relationship between
Stefani and bandmate Tony Kanal.[13] Their break-up
inspired Stefani lyrically, and some of the album's
songs, such as "Don't Speak", "Sunday
Morning", and "Hey You", chronicled their
relationship and her happiness. Five singles were
released from Tragic Kingdom and "Don't Speak"
led 1996's U.S. year-end airplay chart. The album sold
more than fifteen million copies worldwide, and received
several Grammy Award nominations.
No Doubt released the less popular Return of Saturn in
2000, which expanded upon the New Wave influences of
Tragic Kingdom. On the album, Stefani discussed her
often rocky relationship with then-Bush frontman Gavin
Rossdale and her overall insecurities, including
indecision on settling down and having a child. The
band's 2001 album Rock Steady explored more reggae and
dancehall sounds while maintaining the band's New Wave
influences, generally receiving positive reviews from
music critics. The album generated career-highest
singles chart positions in the United States, and
"Hey Baby" and "Underneath It All"
received Grammy Awards. A greatest hits collection, The
Singles 1992-2003 (2003), which includes a cover of Talk
Talk's "It's My Life", was released to
moderate sales. The other members of No Doubt have begun
work on a new album and plan to complete it after
Stefani's tour is finished.
Outside No Doubt, Stefani has collaborated on the
singles "South Side" and "Let Me Blow Ya
Mind" with Moby and Eve, respectively. In 2002 Eve
and Stefani won a Grammy Award for Best Rap/Sung
Collaboration for "Let Me Blow Ya Mind". She
also collaborated with The Brian Setzer Orchestra on a
cover of "You're the Boss", originally
performed by Elvis Presley and Ann-Margret, for its 1998
album The Dirty Boogie.
2004–2006: Love. Angel. Music. Baby.: Stefani's
debut solo album Love. Angel. Music. Baby. was released
in November 2004. The album features a large number of
collaborations with producers and other artists,
including Kanal, Linda Perry, OutKast's André 3000, and
The Neptunes. Stefani created the album to modernize the
music to which she listened when in high school, and
L.A.M.B. takes influence from a variety of music styles
of the 1980s and early 1990s such as New Wave, new jack
swing, and electro. The album debuted on the U.S.
Billboard 200 albums chart at number seven, selling
309,000 copies in its first week. It sold well, reaching
multi-platinum status in the United States, the United
Kingdom, Australia, and Canada. At the 2005 Grammy
Awards, Stefani was nominated for Best Female Pop Vocal
Performance, and at the next year's awards, Stefani
received five nominations for Record of the Year, Album
of the Year, Best Female Pop Vocal Performance, Best Pop
Vocal Album, and Best Rap/Sung Collaboration.
The first single released from the album was "What
You Waiting For?", which only reached number
forty-seven in the U.S. but reached the top ten in most
other charts. "Rich Girl" was released as the
album's second single. A duet with rapper Eve, and
produced by Dr. Dre, it is an adaptation of a 1990s pop
song by British musicians Louchie Lou and Michie One,
which itself is a cover of "If I Were a Rich
Man", from the musical Fiddler on the Roof.
"Rich Girl" proved successful on several
formats, and reached the UK and U.S. top ten. L.A.M.B.'s
third single "Hollaback Girl" became Stefani's
first U.S. and second Australian number-one single; it
was less successful elsewhere. The song was the first
U.S. digital download to sell more than one million
copies legally, and its brass-driven composition
remained popular throughout 2005.
The fourth single "Cool" was released shortly
following the popularity of its predecessor, but failed
to match its chart success, reaching the UK and U.S. top
twenty. The song's lyrics and its accompanying music
video, filmed in Lake Como, Italy, depict Stefani's
former relationship with Tony Kanal.
"Luxurious" was released as the album's fifth
single, but did not perform as well as its predecessors.
"Crash" was released in early 2006 as the
album's sixth single in lieu of Love. Angel. Music.
Baby.'s sequel, which Stefani postponed because of her
pregnancy.
Harajuku Girls: The release of Stefani's first
solo album brought attention to her entourage of four
Harajuku Girls, named for the area around the Harajuku
Station of Tokyo, Japan. Stefani treats the back-up
dancers, who are usually flamboyantly dressed, as a
figment of her imagination. They were featured in her
music videos, press coverage, and on the album cover for
Love. Angel. Music. Baby., and have a song dedicated to
them on the album. They were also featured in, and the
namesake for, Stefani's Harajuku Lovers Tour 2005.
Stefani's adoption of this component of Japanese culture
drew accusations of racism. Salon magazine stated that
she had "swallowed a subversive youth culture in
Japan and barfed up another image of submissive giggling
Asian women". Stand-up comic Margaret Cho has
labeled the Harajuku Girls as a "minstrel
show" that reinforces ethnic stereotypes of Asian
women. The Village Voice rebuked Stefani for contractual
obligations that the four not speak English though they
are fluent, and stated that "silencing people is
the epitome of taking away their autonomy and
subjectivity, even if Gwen Stefani thinks her silent
Japanese fashionistas are part of an awesome and
empowering counterculture."
2006–present: The Sweet Escape: Stefani's
second solo album The Sweet Escape was released on
December 4, 2006 outside North America and on December
5, 2006 in North America. Stefani recollaborated with
Kanal, Perry, and the Neptunes along with Akon
("The Sweet Escape", on which he is featured)
and Tim Rice-Oxley ("Early Winter"). The album
focuses more heavily on dance music for clubs than its
predecessor. Its release coincided with the DVD release
of Stefani's first tour, entitled Harajuku Lovers Live.
The album received mixed reviews by critics, who said
that the album "has a surprisingly moody, lightly
autobiographical feel...[but] Stefani isn't convincing
as a dissatisfied diva" and called the album a
"hasty return" that does "the same thing
she did last time, except it's not as much fun".
"Wind It Up", the album's lead single, was
panned by critics for its use of yodeling and an
interpolation of a song from The Sound of Music but was
moderately successful, reaching the top twenty in most
markets. The title track was well-received and topped
the United World Chart. To promote The Sweet Escape,
Stefani was a mentor on the sixth season of American
Idol and performed the song with Akon. Stefani will be
embarking on the international Sweet Escape Tour
starting in April 2007, along with opening acts Akon and
Lady Sovereign. The tour will visit North America,
Central America, Australia, Asia and Europe.
Non-musical projects: Stefani has created a
fashion line, named L.A.M.B., which showcases clothing
and accessories that she is often seen wearing herself.
Tony Kanal donated an x-ray of his broken finger as an
image for L.A.M.B. t-shirts. In late 2006, Gwen Stefani
released a limited edition line of dolls called
"Love. Angel. Music. Baby. Fashion dolls". The
dolls are inspired by the various costumes that Stefani
and the Harajuku Girls wore while touring for the album.
In June 2005, she expanded her collection with the less
expensive Harajuku Lovers line, with varied products
including a camera, baby clothes, mobile phone charms,
and undergarments.
In 2004, Stefani showed interest in making film
appearances and began auditioning for films such as Mr.
and Mrs. Smith. She made her acting debut playing Jean
Harlow in that year's Martin Scorsese movie The Aviator.
Shooting her part took four to five days, and Stefani
had few lines. Stefani lent her voice to the title
character of Malice, a PS2 and Xbox video game; before
completion, however, the company opted not to use No
Doubt band-members' voices. Stefani is not set to appear
in any forthcoming films in the near future.
Personal life: Stefani had a crush on Kanal when
he joined the band, but Kanal initially rejected her
because her older brother was in the band and Kanal felt
it was an unspoken rule that no one of the band date
her. The two eventually began dating and were
"inseparable" by the early 1990s. Stefani
stated that she was heavily invested in the
relationship, commenting that "all I ever did was
look at Tony and pray that God would let me have a baby
with him." Kanal ended the relationship because he
said that he needed "space".
During her time with No Doubt, the band toured with ska
punk band Reel Big Fish, whose frontman, Aaron Barrett,
later wrote the song "She's Famous Now" for
Reel Big Fish's 1998 album Why Do They Rock So Hard?.
The song is commonly interpreted to be about a
relationship between the two and Stefani's subsequent
success with No Doubt; however, Barrett later stated
that he "was just trying to start a rumor".
In December 1995, Stefani met Bush guitarist and lead
singer Gavin Rossdale at a No Doubt concert, and the two
became involved in a long distance relationship. The
couple has kept details about its relationship private,
avoiding talking to journalists together. They married
in 2002, with a wedding in St Paul's Church in Covent
Garden, London.[62] A second wedding was held in Los
Angeles, California two weeks later. According to
Stefani, it was held so that she could wear a
custom-designed wedding dress by British-Gibraltarian
fashion designer John Galliano. The couple discovered in
2004 that Rossdale had an illegitimate daughter Daisy
with model Pearl Lowe when Rossdale took a paternity
test.
In December 2005, Stefani and Rossdale announced that
they were expecting their first child together. The
pregnancy was first reported by Us Weekly, and Stefani
confirmed the pregnancy by shouting "I want you to
sing so loud that the baby hears it" during a
concert in Fort Lauderdale, Florida after her press
agent stated that it was untrue. On May 26, 2006, their
son, Kingston James McGregor Rossdale, was born via
caesarean section at the Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in
Los Angeles. Kingston weighed 3.4 kilograms (7 pounds, 5
ounces). Stefani plans to have another baby.
Image: Stefani is often identified by her unique
appearance. During No Doubt's breakthrough, Stefani
appeared in the band's first three music videos wearing
a bindi, a forehead decoration most common in Asia, and
briefly popularized the accessory in 1997. First
attracting attention in the "Just a Girl"
music video, Stefani is known for her midriff and
frequently wears shirts that expose it. Stefani's makeup
design generally includes light face powder, bright red
lipstick, and arched eyebrows, and she wrote a song
titled "Magic's in the Makeup" about her
makeup for No Doubt's Return of Saturn.
Stefani is a natural brunette, though her hair has not
been its natural color since Stefani was in ninth grade.
Since then, she has had platinum blonde hair. Stefani
discussed this in the song "Platinum Blonde
Life" on Rock Steady and played original blonde
bombshell Jean Harlow in 2004. Stefani also dyed her
hair blue in 1998 and pink in 2000, appearing on the
cover of Return of Saturn with pink hair.
In 2006, Stefani modified her image, inspired by that of
Elvira Hancock, a rich coke whore portrayed by Michelle
Pfeiffer in the 1983 film Scarface. Stefani raised
concerns in January 2007 about her rapid weight loss
following her pregnancy. She stated she lost the weight
through diet and exercise but admitted to obsessing over
her weight due to the size zero trend. She later stated
that she had been on a diet since the sixth grade to fit
in size 4 clothing, commenting, "It's an ongoing
battle and it's a nightmare. But I like clothes too
much, and I always wanted to wear the outfits I would
make."
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