1. Janet Patricia Gardner was born on March 17,1962 and is an American rock singer.
20 Facts About Janet Gardner
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Janet Gardner is best known as the former lead vocalist and rhythm guitarist of the all-female glam metal band Vixen joining in 1983.
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Janet Gardner was the band's longest serving vocalist having performed on three of the band's four studio albums.
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Janet Gardner returned to Vixen in 2001, later studying to become a dental hygienist.
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Janet Gardner's father, Rulon B Gardner, was a civil engineer who worked for the United States Forest Service in Utah, Alaska, and Michigan before taking a job in Bozeman, Montana, at the Forestry Sciences Laboratory at Montana State University in 1964, where Gardner grew up.
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Janet Gardner's mother, Margaret, was a piano player and church organist.
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Janet Gardner was the only girl in a family with four brothers.
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Janet Gardner sang in school choirs and learned to play piano and guitar.
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Janet Gardner became the lead singer and rhythm guitarist of the all-woman hard rock band Vixen.
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Janet Gardner joined the band's early lineup in 1983, when it was a quintet.
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Janet Gardner mostly stayed out of the spotlight until making a few special appearances singing with the band Scrap Metal in 2010 and 2011.
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In 2012, Share Ross and Roxy Petrucci, along with Janet Gardner, contacted Jan Kuehnemund about reuniting the original Vixen, however Kuehnemund declined stating that she was happy with her new band.
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Janet Gardner released a self-titled solo album, co-produced and written by her and her husband, Justin James, on Pavement Entertainment on August 18,2017.
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In late May 2018, after recovery from surgery for a subdural hematoma, Janet Gardner toured the United Kingdom.
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On January 16,2019, Janet Gardner confirmed in a Facebook post her resignation from Vixen to devote more time to family and prioritize her budding role as a solo artist.
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Janet Gardner recorded her second album Your Place in the Sun with James.
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Sometime after Janet Gardner was asked to leave Vixen during the tension-marred 2001 tour, she attended the University of Bridgeport and, from there, graduated with a degree in dental hygiene, becoming a dental hygienist in 2005.
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Previously, during her former band's heydays in Los Angeles, Janet Gardner worked at a golf course pro shop.
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Janet Gardner has been married to guitarist Justin James since 2016.
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Janet Gardner has a son from her previous marriage to Andy Katz, an engineer whom she met during the recording of Tangerine.