Jane Wiedlin

Pop Singer

Jane Wiedlin was born in Oconomowoc, Wisconsin, United States on May 20th, 1958 and is the Pop Singer. At the age of 65, Jane Wiedlin biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, songs, movies, and networth are available.

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Date of Birth
May 20, 1958
Nationality
United States
Place of Birth
Oconomowoc, Wisconsin, United States
Age
65 years old
Zodiac Sign
Taurus
Networth
$8 Million
Profession
Actor, Guitarist, Singer, Television Actor, Voice Actor
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Jane Wiedlin Life

Jane Marie Genevieve Wiedlin (born May 20, 1958) is an American musician, singer-songwriter, and actress best known as the rhythm guitarist and backing vocalist of the new wave band, the Go-Go's.

Wiedlin has also had a solo musical career.

Early life

Wiedlin was born in Oconomowoc, Wisconsin. Her father, Robert Arthur Wiedlin Sr., an oral surgeon of German and Swiss ancestry, was born in Chicago, Illinois. Her mother, Betty Jane (née Herro), was of Lebanese heritage, from Oconomowoc, where many immigrants from Lebanon settled. Wiedlin's parents met while students at Marquette University. She grew up in West Allis, a suburb of Milwaukee, Wisconsin. She is one of five children, with a sister and three brothers, growing up in a Catholic family. When she was six, her father took a job with the United States Department of Veterans Affairs at a VA hospital in Los Angeles, and the family followed.

Wiedlin has said, "I remember my childhood as extremely idyllic." She has also mentioned her adolescence with angst and hope by saying, "I was a depressed teenager. I thought life was completely pointless when I was in high school, but just a few short years later I was having the adventure of a lifetime in a successful rock band!" She attended William Howard Taft High School in Los Angeles from 1972 to 1976.

Personal life

A long-time animal rights activist, Wiedlin has worked with PETA since as far back as 1989 when she performed as part of a "Rock Against Fur" concert in New York City and is a friend of PETA executive Dan Mathews.

Wiedlin has discussed her struggles with depression and mental health, and how it affected her at several stages of her life, including a suicide attempt in high school, and the effects fame (and a lack of healthy coping mechanisms) had on her wellbeing.

During Wiedlin's time in the Los Angeles punk scene, her first real boyfriend was Terry Bag (Terry Graham) of the punk band, The Bags and later The Gun Club. She later had what she called a "short but dramatic romance" with Terry Hall of the Specials during a 1980 British tour. Hall later sent her some lyrics prompted by their relationship, inspiring Wiedlin to write "Our Lips Are Sealed", a song on which Hall has co-writer credit. In the 2020 documentary The Go-Go's, bandmate Gina Schock stated that she and Wiedlin were "girlfriends" for a time until Wiedlin broke up with her. Wiedlin also had a brief relationship with Russell Mael of the band Sparks.

Wiedlin identifies as bisexual.

In addition to acting and singing, Wiedlin is an ordained minister of the Universal Life Church, a mail-order religious organization that offers anyone semi-immediate, no-cost ordination as a ULC minister. Wiedlin identifies herself as "Reverend Sister Go-Go", primarily officiating at weddings.

Wiedlin was married to Ged Malone from 1987-1999. Wiedlin was married to David Trotter from 2004-2005. Wiedlin got engaged to her boyfriend Terence Lundy in October 2022.

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Jane Wiedlin Career

Career

According to Wiedlin, she was present "pretty much from the beginning" of the Los Angeles punk scene. While attending college in the Los Angeles area for fashion design, she worked at a fashion-design house where she created song lyrics by scribbling ideas on clothing patterns. Under the moniker Jane Drano, she would later design punk-style clothing that she sold at Granny Takes a Trip, a store on Sunset Boulevard. She became part of the scene that spawned bands such as X, the Germs and the Weirdos.

Wiedlin and Belinda Carlisle formed the Go-Go's as a punk band in 1978, with Margot Olaverra on bass and Elissa Bello on drums.

In 1981, Wiedlin and Terry Hall of Fun Boy Three and the Specials co-wrote "Our Lips Are Sealed". The song peaked on the Billboard Hot 100 chart at No. 20, where it remained until 1982.

After a series of reunions during the 1990s, Wiedlin, Carlisle, Caffey, Schock and Valentine reunited in 2000 to record God Bless the Go-Go's, their first studio album in 17 years. The album's title and concept came from Wiedlin.

In 2010, the Go-Go's announced their "Happily Ever After" farewell tour. Although scheduled to begin in July, the tour was canceled because of ACL tears that Wiedlin had suffered in both knees after falling during a nighttime hike.

The Go-Go's announced an 11-date reunion tour scheduled to begin in June 2020. However, in May 2020 the tour was postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

In May 2021 it was announced that The Go-Go's would be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on October 30, 2021. The band confirmed plans for a 2022 UK tour with Billy Idol that would start in June 2022.

Wiedlin has released four solo albums: Jane Wiedlin in 1985, Fur in 1988, Tangled in 1990 and Kissproof World in 2000. From 1995 to 1998, she was also a member of the band FroSTed, which released one album, Cold, in 1996. In 2017, Wiedlin teamed up with the American-born Italian multi-instrumentalist and songwriter Pietro Straccia to form a new psychedelic/pop/harmony and guitar-driven duo called Elettrodomestico.

Wiedlin's early acting credits include a brief appearance as an officer seen on a Starfleet Command video screen in Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (1986), an ill-fated singing telegram girl in Clue (1985), the White Fairy in Golan-Globus's Sleeping Beauty (1987) and as Joan of Arc in Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure (1989). Of her 1980s acting career, she has stated, "It turned out to be much harder than it looks, and as much as I enjoyed those experiences, I don't think I'm very good at it."

In 2001, she had a regular role in MTV's Spyder Games, portraying the "ex-rock chick who runs the local coffee house" where the characters hang out.

In 2005, she appeared as herself on the fourth season of VH1's The Surreal Life, in which she talked about her interest in BDSM.

She portrayed the role of Ursula in Steve Balderson's 2005 surrealist crime drama film Firecracker, which Roger Ebert listed among the year's best films. She worked twice more with director Balderson, in Stuck! (2009), an homage to film noir women in prison dramas.

In 2011, she played Tess in the independent movie I Want to Get Married.

She has also provided voices for characters in television and film animation, such as Bruce Wayne's girlfriend in an episode of The New Batman Adventures, Gwen on Mission Hill, and Dusk of the Hex Girls, a recurring character in the Scooby-Doo franchise.

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Famed Los Angeles club owner and DJ is accused of sexually assaulting six women including Go-Go's guitarist Jane Wiedlin when they were teenagers - years after boasting about providing Led Zeppelin with underage girls

www.dailymail.co.uk, December 12, 2023
When women were minors, a group of women accused Los Angeles DJ Rodney Bingenheimer of sexually assaulting them. Among them is former Go-Goos guitarist Jane Wiedlin, who claims that the hard-partying disc-jockey scratched her crotch against hers until he ejaculated in 1974. The alleged incident occurred while the woman, now 65, was just 15, and she was celebrating a night out at the then-renowned English Disco in the 1990s. The club, which opened by Bingenheimer two years ago, was a well-known haunt for actors of the time like David Bowie, Keith Moon, and Elvis Presley, as well as numerous young girls who were often welcomed with open arms. Members of the illustrious prog rock band Led Zeppelin were also present - and the club's now-defunct boss boasted how they would regularly be provided with school-age girls when they were in town. Wiedlin said she had been exposed to similar misdeeds at the club when she was younger. One of six people suspected of such conduct - one of whom had filed a lawsuit in April - described how Bingenheimer, 75, was allegedly cornered in a back room.
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