Stan Ridgway
Stan Ridgway was born in Barstow, California, United States on April 5th, 1954 and is the Pop Singer. At the age of 70, Stan Ridgway 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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Stanard "Stan" Ridgway (born April 5, 1954) is an American multi-instrumentalist singer-songwriter and film and television composer known for his distinctive voice, dramatic lyrical stories, and eclectic solo albums.
He was both the original lead singer and a founding member of the band Wall of Voodoo.
Early life
Stan Ridgway was born in Barstow, California, in the "high desert" and grew in Los Angeles. He claims to have been a budding ventriloquist who spent his first night in prison for stealing street signs at the age of 12. Ridgway had an obsession with folk music as a child, evicting his parents until they bought him a banjo at the age of 14.
Solo career
Ridgway began as a solo artist in 1983, right after Wall of Voodoo's appearance at the US Festival the same year. He recorded his first proper solo album, The Big Heat (1986), which featured top five European (including UK) after collaborating on "Don't Box Me In" with Stewart Copeland from the Police for the film "Don't Box Me In" with Francis Ford Coppola's, Rumble Fish, starring Mickey Rourke, Matt Dillon and Dennis Hopper, starring Mickey Rourke and Dennis Hopper. Several other solo albums followed: Mosquitos (1989), Partyball (1995), and Anatomy (1999), A collection of big band samples, and Holiday in Dirt (2002), a series of outtakes and previously unreleased songs. Snakebite: Blacktop Ballads and Fugitive Songs (2005) by Ridgway features the narrative song "Talkin' Wall Of Voodoo Blues Pt. "A history of his ex band, his ex band, is included in this book.
The album Holiday in Dirt by Ridgway was a quasi-cinematic event, with the unveiling of the album and the screening of 14 short films by various independent filmmakers, each film being a visual interpretation of one of the songs on the album. In February 2005, a compilation DVD of the films was released.
Ridgway's wife, keyboardist/vocalist Pietra Wexstun of the band Hecate's Angels (who had previously worked with Ridgway on Moshyo and Partyball), and former Rain Parade drummer Ivan Knight began working on a new project in 1994. Drywall's first album, titled Work the Dumb Oracle, was released in 1995 (the first of a series of apocalyptic documents). The Drywall Incident, a short film directed by Carlos Grasso, was released the same year. In 1996, The Drywall Incident's extended, instrumental soundtrack album was released.
Ridgway and Wexstun collaborated and ventured into new musical territory, composing a series of mainly instrumental and orchestral pieces to accompany an exhibition of surrealist artist Mark Ryden's paintings after being introduced by a mutual friend, Sean P. Riley, who toured with Wall Of Voodoo on their 1982 "Call of Virtue" as the band's merchandiser. Blood – Miniature Paintings of Sorrow and Fear, a unique 3-panel packaging style by the artist, sold out of the artist's limited pressing of 7,500 copies. In Wexstun's Hecate's Angels band Ridgway, Ridgway performs banjo and harmonica.
Stan Ridgway and Drywall regrouped in 2006 to release Barbeque Babylon, the third "apocalyptic book" on the single "The AARP Is After Me." Rick King on guitars and bass, and Bruce Zelesnik on drums and percussion appear in the new Drywall collection. "Silly Songs for Kids Vol. 1" was published in 2008 by Ridgway and Wexstun. The duo and also saxophonist and woodwind player Ralph Carney appear in "One," a series of children's songs.
Ridgway has also contributed to albums and films by composer Hal Willner, Frank Black and the Catholics, the Flesh Eaters, the Divine Horsemen, the Fibonaccis, and Roger McGuinn.