Kathy Valentine
Kathy Valentine was born in Austin, Texas, United States on January 7th, 1959 and is the Bassist. At the age of 65, Kathy Valentine biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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Kathryn Valentine (born January 7, 1959) is an American singer (guitar and bass) as well as a songwriter.
She made music history as a member of Go-Go, the first all-female band to have a top album in the United States, as well as other academic and creative pursuits.
Early life
Valentine was born in Austin, Texas, on January 7, 1959, she was the only child raised by her single mother, an English expatriate. Since moving from public school to a non-traditional academy called Greenbriar, she began playing guitar in 9th grade. Suzi Quatro on Top Of The Pops in 1973, when she was visiting England with her mother, "blew her mind." It had never occurred to her that a woman could be a rock star.
She returned to Austin, bought an electric guitar and amp, and began looking for bandmates. She cites Austin, Texas' diverse musical roots, in particular Jimmie Vaughan and The Fabulous Thunderbirds, as well as Texas icon Doug Sahm, who allowed her onstage with his band on Chuck Berry's "Little Queenie."
She answered an advertisement in Melody Maker in 1975 on a subsequent family trip to London with her mother, which lead to the fledgling Girlschool. She missed a gig due to sickness and was brought on by Kelly Johnson, who would later work. Valentine, influenced by punk rock and bands like the Ramones and Blondie, returned to Austin and formed the Violators, along with Carla Olson, Jesse Substitution, and Marilyn Dean. In February 1978, the band appeared at Raul's, Austin's first punk club.
Valentine, 19, died in late 1978 and co-founded the Textones with Carla Olson. Before Valentine left the band in 1980, the Textones released two singles, one of which was unreleased, including an unreleased Tom Petty song. Phil Seymour wrote "We Don't Get Along" during her stint in the Textones. The Go-Go's would release this album as well as other songs she'd written during the Textones period, such as "Vacation" and "Can't Stop The World."
Personal life
Valentine is divorced from Steven Weisburd, with whom she has a daughter. Valentine and Weisburd were co-founders of The Townsend, a bar and performance venue in downtown Austin from 2016 to 2020.
Career
Valentine was invited to play bass, an instrument she had not played extensively as a substitute for Go-Go's bass player Margot Olavarria, who had been sick and the band decided she needed to be replaced. She claims she learned their songs over four days and rehearsed with them twice before taking the stage on New Year's Eve 1980 at Whisky a Go Go. Valentine was asked to serve as a permanent member shortly after. Go-Go's were sold to the United States by a Go-Gorilla. In March 1981, there were records. For Go-Go's debut album, Beauty and the Beat, "Can't Stop the World" was recorded.
After re-working the deal with Go-Gos guitarist Charlotte Caffey, Valentine's previous Textones song "Vacation" appeared on the second album as the title track and first single. Valentine co-wrote with Caffey on the hit song "Head Over Heels" and appeared on several recordings, including "You Thought," "Beneath The Blue Sky," and "Good For Gone" on the Go-Gos' third album, "You Thought."
During the departure of rhythm guitarist Jane Wiedlin, the band battled with internal issues during the recording of Talk Show and continued to function together. Valentine rose to lead guitar, while Paula Jean Brown was recruited to play bass. In 1985, the Go-Go's were born.
Valentine expressed despair after the break up and that her identity had been absorbed into being a Go-Google. Kelly Johnson, a former Girlschool guitarist, Jesse Subbait on bass, guitarist Craig Aaronson (future A&R man) and keyboardist Jebin Bruni, all returning to her rock roots, formed the world's Cutest Killers, a line up she hoped would be fruitful. Producer Mike Chapman and recorded demos were discarded, attracting the band's attention, and the group disbanded up. Several other bands and line-ups went nowhere, and Valentine returned to school. The Go-Go's returned to concerts and a compilation of the greatest hits in 1990, but soon after, they were banned.
Valentine began her longest friendship and collaboration with singer and bassist Dominique Davalos in 1992. They formed the BlueBonnets, a blues-based outfit. With high-profile guests in the band, clubgoers coming to watch them, and appearances at celebrity wedding receptions and parties, record company scouts noticed, but the group's line up changes — including Pinky Turzo on lead vocals — was disappointing, but The Delphines became the group's flagship — until 1995, when it became The Delphines.
The Go-Go's began performing together, with Valentine co-writing "The Whole World Forgot Its Head" on Return To The Valley of The Go-Go's, the band's highest charting U.K. single. In 2001, God Bless The Go-Go-Go's performed extensively for many years, and performed in The Go-Go's Live In Central Park, a popular DVD live concert. Valentine decided not to let the Go-Go's define her this time around, and the band released two albums, The Delphines (1996) and Cosmic Speed (2001).
Valentine co-produced, arranged, and performed the guitar and vocal tracks on her own in 2005. The Light Years featured musicians such as Kiss guitarist Ace Frehley, Guns and Roses guitarist Gilby Clarke, Lenny Kravitz, guitarist Craig Ross, and drummer Pete Thomas. She began writing several songs with then husband, partner, and guitarist Steven Weisburd while pregnant in 2002.
Valentine returned to her hometown in 2006 to live. She has appeared on the front pages of the Fall 2010 issue of Texas Music, a February 2007 issue of the Austin Chronicle, as well as the February 2009 issue of Austin Woman.
Members of Blondie (Debbie Harry, Chris Stein, and Clem Burke) were inducted into the Austin Music Hall of Fame in March 2014. With a Texas lineup, she and Davalos re-formed The BlueBonnets, including Austin guitarist Eve Monsees.
Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom (2010) and Play Loud (2014), the band's first two albums, and they were invited to open for The Waterboys American tour in Spring 2015. Tonewrecker, the band's third album, was released on April 1, 2017. Valentine and Davalos also perform in Lady Band Johnson, with frontman Johnny Goudie.
The Go-Go's announced plans for a farewell tour on March 21, 2016. However, Valentine will not be included in the line.
A number of her songs were included in Head Over Heels' debut in 2018, with a tale told by Philip Sidney's Arcadia set to the Go-Go's and Belinda Carlisle's songs. As a result, Valentine returned to perform their first show together as a quintet in six years at Bowery Ballroom in New York on January 31, 2018. Valentine had revived the band in February 2018, according to posts on the organization's official Facebook page. For 2020, a summer tour is planned.
The original version of her Textones song, "Vacation," debuted in May 2020 and was re-released for a second season of the Starz cable series Hightown.
In 2020, the group announced an 11-date reunion tour, but the tour was postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Billy Idol, the Go-Gote's founder, revealed plans for a 2022 UK tour in September 2021, which would begin in June 2022.
On October 30, 2021, Valentine and The Go-Go's were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. In December 2021, the company celebrated their induction with a special exhibition at the Whisky a Go Go. Due to a COVID-19 lawsuit involving someone with the tour, the tour was forced to postpone other West Coast dates scheduled for early January 2022.