49 Facts About Susanna Hoffs

Susanna Lee Hoffs was born on January 17,1959 and is an American singer, songwriter, guitarist, and actress.

Susanna Hoffs was lead vocalist on five of the seven singles released by the Bangles, resulting in her being seen as the face of the group, even though all four members shared lead vocal duties.

Susanna Hoffs recorded several songs for films and formed the faux-British 1960s band Ming Tea with Mike Myers and Matthew Sweet.

Susanna Hoffs teamed with Sweet to produce Under the Covers, a series of cover song albums.

Susanna Lee Hoffs was born in Los Angeles, California, on January 17,1959.

Susanna Hoffs has said that her home environment "wasn't really traditional" and that it was an "atheist, intellectual, creative world".

Susanna Hoffs said that while her mother was religious and kept kosher, her father was secular.

Susanna Hoffs visited Israel for the first time at the age of 12 to see her grandparents, and she celebrated her bat mitzvah at the King David Hotel in Jerusalem.

Susanna Hoffs took ballet classes as a child, and started playing guitar in elementary school, learning chords from her uncle.

Susanna Hoffs attended Palisades High School, and received a bachelor's degree in art in 1980 from the University of California, Berkeley, where she switched majors between dance, theater, film, and art.

In one account, Susanna Hoffs said that the short-lived group would perform for 50 minutes, to reflect the duration of "psychiatrists' hours", but in a 2012 interview she said that this early group never performed in public.

Susanna Hoffs either posted an ad in a local newspaper and left flyers at the Whisky a Go Go at a Go-Go's concert in search of potential bandmates, or answered an ad asking for musicians to join a group.

The band was originally called the Colours, but changed it to the Supersonic Bangs after Susanna Hoffs saw an article about 1960s hairstyles in an old copy of Esquire, and subsequently to the Bangs.

Susanna Hoffs said that the band's first "real performance" was at Laird International Studios, where Vicki worked as a secretary.

Susanna Hoffs had previously signed the Go-Go's, likewise an all-female band, whose albums had been commercially successful.

Susanna Hoffs played a role in the short comedy film, The Haircut, starring John Cassavetes.

Susanna Hoffs first met Prince in 1984 and the pair spoke regularly.

Susanna Hoffs attended some of the group's concerts and occasionally appeared on stage with them.

Paul Evans and Ernesto Lechner of The New Rolling Stone Album Guide wrote that Susanna Hoffs had "mastered a singing style that combined pep, coy sweetness, and an occasional plaintive resonance".

Susanna Hoffs recounted that she had been looking at selected members of the crowd to counter stage fright, and had not realized it would be a focal point in the video.

Susanna Hoffs concluded that Hoffs was "an equally obvious candidate for a successful solo career".

Susanna Hoffs sang the studio recording of "Eternal Flame" naked due to producer Davitt Sigerson pranking her by telling her Olivia Newton-John had done the same thing.

Susanna Hoffs later told Hoffs he had just been pulling her leg.

Susanna Hoffs was lead vocalist on five of the seven Columbia singles by the Bangles, leading to a public perception that she was the primary singer and face of the group, even though all four members shared lead vocals, and Steele and Peterson did most of the talking between songs in concert.

Susanna Hoffs was the lead actress in The Allnighter and gained Prince's attention.

Susanna Hoffs contacted the other members of the Bangles in the late 1990s with the hope of reuniting.

Susanna Hoffs recounted that following the experiences that led to the group disbanding in 1989, the band members agreed that each would have a veto on the group's proposed activities.

Susanna Hoffs contributed lead vocals to covers of Bob Dylan's "I'll Keep It with Mine" and Lou Reed's "I'll Be Your Mirror" on Rainy Day's 1984 self-titled album.

In 1987, Susanna Hoffs starred in the comedy The Allnighter, directed by Tamar Simon Susanna Hoffs, which featured Joan Cusack and Pam Grier.

Susanna Hoffs said she expected it to fare better as a home video, as the production was more suitable for home than cinema viewing.

In 1991, Susanna Hoffs released her first post-Bangles solo album, When You're a Boy.

Susanna Hoffs covered the Oingo Boingo song "We Close Our Eyes" for the Buffy the Vampire Slayer film soundtrack in 1992, and provided the title song for the 1995 film Now and Then.

Susanna Hoffs contributed covers of "The Water Is Wide" and Donovan's "Catch the Wind" for the soundtrack of Tamar Simon Susanna Hoffs' 2003 film Red Roses and Petrol.

Susanna Hoffs self-released her third solo album of new material, Someday, on her Baroque Folk label on July 17,2012.

Jonathan Keefe of In Review Online wrote, "Susanna Hoffs is in fantastic voice throughout the album" and praised the versatility of her renditions.

Susanna Hoffs co-wrote songs for the Go-Go's, Belinda Carlisle, and Bette Midler.

Susanna Hoffs sang on albums by artists such as Rufus Wainwright, Travis and the Lilith Fair: Celebration of Music compilation album.

In 2024, Susanna Hoffs released, The Lost Record, an album she had recorded in her garage in 1999.

Mike Myers, musician Matthew Sweet, and Susanna Hoffs formed the core of the faux-British 1960s band Ming Tea after Myers left Saturday Night Live in the early 1990s.

Susanna Hoffs teamed with Sweet, as "Sid and Susie", to record several cover versions of classic rock songs from the 1960s for their album Under the Covers, Vol.

Susanna Hoffs was featured as a guest singer on Travis's 2020 single "The Only Thing" from their ninth studio album, 10 Songs.

Susanna Hoffs learned to play electric guitar on a Gibson SG.

Susanna Hoffs used this on the early Bangles recordings, but after some work on the guitar that affected its feel, she bought a Rickenbacker 325.

Susanna Hoffs is depicted on the cover of All Over the Place holding her Rickenbacker 325V63.

Susanna Hoffs used the 325 on some of the band's recordings, but found it hard to tune, and said that it "ended up being more of a video guitar".

Susanna Hoffs contributed to the design of a Susanna Hoffs model of the Rickenbacker 350 released in 1988 and 1989.

Susanna Hoffs has a 1966 12-string Guild Starfire which she says provides an "incredible bright-but-warm sound", as used for tracks on Doll Revolution.

Susanna Hoffs dated the actor Michael J Fox for a short period in 1986, although neither have any memory of it.

Susanna Hoffs married filmmaker Jay Roach in 1993, and they have two sons, born in 1995 and 1998.