Lydia Lunch was born on Lydia Anne Koch; June 2,1959 and is an American singer, poet, writer, actress and self-empowerment speaker.
18 Facts About Lydia Lunch
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Lydia Lunch's career began during the 1970s New York City no wave scene as the singer and guitarist of Teenage Jesus and the Jerks.
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Lydia Lunch was born on June 2,1959, in Rochester, New York and is of German and Italian descent.
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Lydia Lunch moved to New York City at the age of 16 and eventually moved into a communal household of artists and musicians.
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Lydia Lunch later appeared on two songs on James White and the Blacks album, Off-White.
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Lydia Lunch was in two other short lived bands before launching her solo career in 1980, Beirut Slump and 8 Eyed Spy.
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Lydia Lunch released her studio album Smoke in the Shadows in November 2004, through Atavistic Records and Breakin Beats, after a six-year break from music.
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Lydia Lunch contributed to the second album from the project, The Journey is Long, which was released in April 2012.
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Lydia Lunch released the album Retrovirus in 2013 on Interbang Records and ugEXPLODE.
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Together with band members Weasel Walter, Algis Kizys, and Bob Bert, Lydia Lunch performed a show following the album's release at the Bowery Electric venue in New York City, in May 2013.
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Lydia Lunch appeared in two films by directors Scott B and Beth B In Black Box she played a dominatrix, and in Vortex she played a private detective named Angel Powers.
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In 2011, Lydia Lunch appeared in Mutantes: punk, porn, feminism, a film directed by Virginie Despentes, featuring Annie Sprinkle and Catherine Breillat.
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Lydia Lunch wrote, directed, and acted in underground films, sometimes collaborating with underground filmmaker Nick Zedd and photographer Richard Kern.
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Lydia Lunch has recorded and performed as a spoken word artist, collaborating with artists such as Exene Cervenka, Henry Rollins, Don Bajema and Hubert Selby Jr.
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Additionally, Lydia Lunch has authored both traditional books and comix.
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In 2013, Lydia Lunch ran self-empowerment workshops in locations such as Ojai, California, US and Rennes, France.
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In 2014 Lydia Lunch shot a series of photographs with Austin, Texas-based artist, Darla Teagarden.
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Lydia Lunch returned to the United States in 2017 and lives in Brooklyn.