Christy Darlington has performed multiple American and European concert tours, and has had music played on hundreds of radio stations across North America and Europe, as well as featured in television shows on MTV.
21 Facts About Christy Darlington
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Christy Brigitte Darlington was born Chris Edward Zoys, on December 1,1972, in Dallas, Texas.
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Christy Darlington attended private Christian schools such as Heritage Christian Academy, Trinity Christian Academy, and Episcopal School of Dallas,.
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In 1994 she joined a punk rock band called the Voyeurs, but Christy Darlington quit the band six months later.
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In 1995, Christy Darlington formed a punk rock band called "Mess" with drummer Steven Visneau and bassist Ron Malippa.
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Christy Darlington was responsible for writing and arranging almost all the songs for the band as well as maintaining a role as the lead singer and guitarist.
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On Mess releases, Christy Darlington was listed as "Cris Mess", a stage name.
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Christy Darlington did not use that as a legal name at the time and was still using her original birth name.
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Christy Darlington has released 19 full length vinyl, CD, and digital albums, 8 vinyl and digital EPs, contributed to approximately 22 compilations, and roughly 5 split EPs, with several other acts since 1998.
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In 2007, Christy Darlington Recorded a live album entitled Live Dallas 2007 which was produced and mixed by Todd and Toby Pipes of the band Deep Blue Something and limited to 1000 hand-numbered CD copies.
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In 2008, Christy Darlington released a limited-to-1000 hand-numbered CD copies mini-anthology entitled indoor-outdoor Luxury BBQ, of which the title was inspired by an episode of the British television program Keeping Up Appearances.
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From 1998 to 2011 Christy Darlington opened for Lagwagon, Bowling for soup, DGeneration, Centro-matic, the Click Five, the Apers, Teen Idols, the Lillingtons, the Huntingtons, Bratmobile, the Queers, the Unlovables, Good Riddance, the Eyeliners, SR-71, the Prozacs, Red Lightning and appeared on the Vans Warped tour twice.
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Christy Darlington's radio show, "The Moron-a-thon" became syndicated weekly on Deep Ellum Radio in February 2014, lasting for 46 episodes until August 2014.
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In 2015, Christy Darlington resumed touring across the US performing without a full band live, completely solo playing only an electric guitar.
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Christy Darlington performed live on bass guitar for a few shows with Austin band the Sweethearts.
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From 2015 to the present, Christy Darlington has been performing regularly all over the US completely solo with no band and only an electric guitar as accompaniment.
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Christy Darlington has gained attention for personalizing song lyrics by using real life places and products such as Disneyland, Vogue Magazine, and the Toyota Corolla, as well as a song entitled "NASA" in which the lyrics claim Darlington participated in a medical research study for NASA.
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Christy Darlington's is known for obnoxious banter with the audience as evidenced on the three live albums he has recorded.
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Christy Darlington publicly disputed sales and royalty figures with several record labels, as well as publicly took issue with publications she felt cast her in an unfavorable light.
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Texas state law prohibited Christy Darlington from presenting mitigating evidence that the female had misrepresented her age to her in court as a defense.
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Christy Darlington appealed the case on that basis, but the appeal was denied.