Duffy Bishop

Duffy Bishop
Born	Redding, California, United States
Genres	Electric blues
Occupation(s)	Singer, songwriter, costume designer, actress
Years active	1970s–present
Labels	Various

Duffy Bishop is an American electric blues singer and songwriter. She is in the Cascade Blues Association and Washington Blues Society Halls of Fame, and has been given a Lifetime Achievement Award by both bodies. In a career spanning over forty years, Bishop has also been a costume designer and an actress in musical theatre. To date she and her band have released seven albums. She has been the opening act for such artists as Roy Orbison, John Lee Hooker, Lou Rawls, Chicago, Ruth Brown, Bonnie Riatt, and Etta James, among others.

She lives in St. Augustine, Florida during the winter, although she and her husband return to their home in the Pacific Northwest during the summer months.

Born in Redding, California, United States, her family relocated to Yreka and later finally settled in Woodland, California. In the third grade at school, Bishop was involved in a staged public performance, and formed her first group three years later. Their collective name of Effervescence did not last long, when she discovered it was also a term for a bubbling laxative. As a teenager, Bishop joined her school friend, Jan Dunton, and performed as a folk singing twosome named duo.image. Her early musical career included a three-year spell with Roadside Attraction, before gaining experience in outfits named Toulouse Lautrec, Coda, and Skeezix. In 1975, she relocated to Los Angeles with her then husband, and sang at both the Whisky a Go Go and the Troubadour, albeit with other musician's bands. Four years later she moved to Seattle, Washington, and was divorced in 1982.

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