1. Jennifer Finch was born on August 5,1966 and is an American musician, designer, and photographer most notable for being the primary bass player of the punk rock band L7.
25 Facts About Jennifer Finch
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Active in L7 from 1986 to 1996, Finch wrote music and performed with her bands OtherStarPeople and The Shocker in the interim before joining the reunited L7 in 2014.
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Jennifer Finch was born August 5,1966, and grew up in West Los Angeles.
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Jennifer Finch was adopted in 1967 by Robert Edward Finch, an aeronautics engineer, and his wife Sandra Jacobson; they later divorced in 1974.
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Jennifer Finch credits the support of her adoptive father, who was an amateur photographer, as being instrumental to her creative development.
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Jennifer Finch took an interest in photography at an early age and attended a summer art session at Otis Parsons in 1980.
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Jennifer Finch played bass in the San Francisco-based band Sugar Babydoll from 1984 - 1986.
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Jennifer Finch subsequently played in the short-lived Hollywood band The Pandoras, formed by bassist Gwynne Kahn.
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In 1986, Jennifer Finch joined the Los Angeles-based punk rock group L7.
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Jennifer Finch remained with L7 throughout the band's most successful period in the early 1990s.
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Jennifer Finch contributed to the albums L7 Smell the Magic, Bricks Are Heavy, and Hungry for Stink.
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In 1994, Jennifer Finch was featured in a music video for Hole for their breakthrough album Live Through This, as the original bassist Kristen Pfaff had died of an over-dose in June of that year.
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In 1995, after the death of her father, Jennifer Finch adopted the name "Precious" as an homage to him.
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Jennifer Finch was involved with Betty Blowtorch, appearing in the 2003 documentary film Betty Blowtorch And Her Amazing True Life Adventures.
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Jennifer Finch founded the punk rock group The Shocker in Los Angeles in 2002.
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Jennifer Finch served as the sole songwriter and primary singer of The Shocker through 2006.
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Jennifer Finch produced a Ramones' tribute album Brats on the Beat for the St Jude Children's Research Hospital.
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At the age of 13, Jennifer Finch began to take photos of her friends in Los Angeles on a camera given to her by her father.
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Jennifer Finch's photography was on display at an LA Weekly sponsored art show at Aidan Ryley Taylor Gallery in Hollywood, until November 18,2006.
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Jennifer Finch's photographs traveled to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame for display in January 2007.
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Jennifer Finch has acted in the 1984 film The Census Taker and in the 1994 John Waters film Serial Mom as part of the fictitious band the Camel Lips.
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Jennifer Finch appeared as herself in the 2007 documentary Punk's Not Dead.
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Jennifer Finch's music was featured in the 1999 film Office Space and on the popular TV series Degrassi: The Next Generation in 2008.
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Jennifer Finch appears in interviews and original footage throughout the documentary film L7: Pretend We're Dead, directed by Sarah Price and released in November 2016.
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Jennifer Finch was married to actor, musician and race car driver Chris Pedersen from 2000 to 2007.