Janet Gardner

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Musical career

Gardner, the lead singer and rhythm guitarist of Vixen, the all-woman hard rock band. She performed in the band's early lineup in 1983, when it was a quintet. The band appeared in the film Hardbodies as Diaper Rash in 1984 before heading to Los Angeles to further their career in the pop rock genre. Gardner was only on lead vocals at the time. Following some initial changes, Vixen's main lineup featured Gardner, doubling as the second guitarist, Jan Kuehnemund, Roxy Petrucci, and Share Ross, who was then known as Share Pedersen. Vixen signed to EMI's Manhattan Records and produced their self-titled debut album, which was released in September 1988. Gardner characterized the recording as "We were just girls from Minnesota and Montana who loved playing live," so it was a bit of a rude awakening."

"Edge of a Broken Heart," their lead song, became their signature hit song. Richard Marx co-written, arranged, and produced it. Vixen will tour around the world in support of Ozzy Osbourne, Scorpions, and Bon Jovi, as well as their own headline shows. Vixen recorded and unveiled their second album, Revit It Up, in 1990. They toured for another year with KISS and Deep Purple before the band disbanded in 1992 due to musical inconsistencies.

Gardner and Petrucci reformed Vixen in 1997 with Rana Ross and Gina Stile for a US tour. They released Tangerine, their third Vixen album, in 1998. Ross did not know him. The album will have a more retro-90s post-grunge feel rather than the 1980s hair metal sounds of the previous two albums. During Gardner's time with Vixen, Tangerine eventually became Gardner's last studio album. Maxine Petrucci's sister Maxine joined the band as bassist for a tour until they were sued by original member Jan Kuehnemund for copyright violation relating to the use of the Vixen word.

Kuehnemund decided to resurrect the band with Gardner and Petrucci, and Pat Holloway on bass. Vixen's newly reformed Vixen toured the United States as part of the Voices of Metal tour, until management clashes led the band to break in the middle of the tour. Kuehnemund was compelled to leave the tour early by three new members, who remained under the Vixen name.

In 2004, VH1 called the original Vixen lineup and asked them to appear on the show Bands Reunited. The show featured a one-time reunion of the original group that appeared in November 2004 alongside the re-release of the first two Vixen albums.

Gardner stayed out of the limelight until making a few rare appearances with the band Scrap Metal in 2010 and 2011. Share Ross and Roxy Petrucci, as well as Gardner, called Jan Kuehnemund in 2012 to reunit the original Vixen, but Kuehnemund refused, saying she was content with her new band. Gardner, Ross, and Petrucci would form their own band alongside Gina Stile shortly thereafter. They started off naming "VXN" but decided to avoid any potential lawsuits, so they became known as simply JanetShareRoxyGina (or JSRG for short).

At the end of 2012, JSRG debuted on the Monsters of Rock cruise, which followed touring on the Monsters of Rock cruise in March 2013. Kuehnemund died on October 10, 2013. Consequently, JSRG decided to continue as Vixen in December to respect Kuehnemund's legacy.

Gardner and her husband, Justin James, co-produced and wrote her self-titled solo album on Pavement Entertainment on August 18, 2017. According to an interview with James, she tripled as a bass guitarist and a drummer on her album, in addition to vocals. So, only the couple were Janet Gardner's employees.

Gardner toured the United Kingdom in late May 2018, after recovering from hematoma surgery, to a subdural hematoma. Earlier in March, she was substituted by Femme Fatale's Lorraine Lewis at a show in Oklahoma by Femme Fatale's Lorraine Lewis.

Gardner resigned from Vixen in a Facebook post on January 16, 2019. She also decided to devote more time to family and prioritize her budding as a solo artist. During the previous November, she was at the Mohegan Sun Casino Wolf Den in Uncasville, Connecticut. "You Oughta Know by Now," the band's own cover of Ray Kennedy's "You Oughta Know by Now" and an acoustic version of "Edge of a Broken Heart" for the 2018 live album Live Fire, was her last act on lead vocals. The first song on his 1980 self-titled album was released. Lewis was eventually named as her replacement by her ex bandmates. Gardner's sophomore album, Your Place in the Sun, was released by James. It was released on May 31, 2019.

Gardner and James' latest Synergy album Synergy was announced in May 2020 under the new band name Gardner/James, which announced that her eponymous solo project was now a duo.

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