Brody Dalle

Brody Dalle
Dalle performing in 2009
Background information
Birth name	Bree Joanna Alice Robinson
Born	(1979-01-01) 1 January 1979 (age 38) Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Genres	Punk rock, alternative rock, hardcore, garage rock
Instruments	Vocals, guitar, bass, keyboards
Years active	1995–present
Labels	Sire, Warner Bros., Epitaph, Fellaheen
Associated acts	The Distillers, Spinnerette, Eagles of Death Metal, Queens of the Stone Age, Freeland, The Transplants, Leftöver Crack, Nosfell, Sourpuss, Nick Valensi
Website	Official Brody Dalle website
Notable instruments
Fender Telecaster Custom

Brody Dalle (born Bree Joanna Alice Robinson; 1 January 1979) is an Australian-born singer-songwriter and guitarist. Dalle began playing music in her adolescence, and moved to Los Angeles, California at age eighteen, where she founded the punk rock band The Distillers. The group released three albums before disbanding in 2006, and Dalle began another project, Spinnerette, releasing an eponymous album in 2009. In 2014, she released Diploid Love, her first album under her solo name.

Dalle was born Bree Joanna Alice Robinson in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia on New Year's Day 1979. She was raised in the suburbs of Melbourne, in Fitzroy and Northcote. Dalle's father left their family when she was young, and her mother remarried. Through her father's second marriage, Dalle has a half-sister, writer and comedian Morgana Robinson. Dalle was sexually abused as a child, and was ensnared in court cases surrounding the abuse at age fifteen.

Dalle began training as a teenager to be an Olympic swimmer. She attended and was expelled from two Catholic high schools in Melbourne before dropping out. As a teenager, Dalle admitted to experimenting with drugs: "I was never a junkie, I was never shoeless and selling my mom's car to a Gypsy. I just experimented, like everyone else."

Dalle was intrigued by Cyndi Lauper and the Beatles as a child. At age 12, she discovered Nirvana, and cited Hole frontwoman Courtney Love, as well as other female-led punk groups such as Babes in Toyland and Bikini Kill as early influences on her. Dalle's musical career began at 13 years old, starting with guitar. She participated in Rock'n'Roll High School (RnRHS), a Melbourne feminist collective started by Stephanie Bourke. She became interested in Black Flag, Discharge, and Flipper. In 1995 at 16, her first band Sourpuss, played a set at Australia's Summersault Festival where she met Tim Armstrong, frontman of punk rock band Rancid. The two pursued a relationship despite their 13-year age difference. The couple were engaged in 1997, shortly after Dalle turned 18. She moved with Armstrong from Melbourne to Los Angeles and there founded The Distillers.