Joanna Stingray
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Joanna Stingray in Don't Come Down On Me music video (2016)
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Joanna Fields July 3, 1960 Los Angeles, California |
| Nationality | American |
| Other names | Joanna Fields |
| Occupation | musician, producer |
| Known for | Popularising post-Soviet rock music in the US |
Joanna Stingray (Russian: Джоанна Стингрей Dzhoanna Stingrey, [dʐɐˈanə sʲtʲɪŋˈɡrʲej], born Joanna Fields, 1960, USA) is an American singer, actress, music producer and socialite. She was a key figure in popularising Soviet and Russian rock music and culture in the West in the 1980s.
Joanna Stingray is a native of Los Angeles, California. As a young musician, Stingray was a pop vocalist who released her U.S. 12-inch, 4-track debut, "Beverly Hills Brat" in 1983. In 1984, aged 23, Stingray travelled to Leningrad where she was introduced to Boris Grebenshchikov of the rock group Akvarium. Impressed by Grebenshchikov, and other artists' music, Stingray began to export the music of 'underground' Soviet rock bands beyond the confines of the Soviet Union.
On July 27, 1986, Australian record company Big Time Records, released Red Wave: 4 Underground Bands from the Soviet Union, a double album consisting of songs collected and produced by Stingray. Each record side includes songs by one artist and the bands included are Akvarium, Kino, Alisa and Strannye Igry (Strange Games). It was the first release of Russian rock music in the United States.
Stingray spent most of the following years living in Moscow, where she worked variously as a musician, actress and television presenter before returning to the United States in 1995.
In 1993 Joanna was cast in the film "Freak", directed by Roman Kachanov. In 1996 she collaborated with Alexandr Lipnitskii to produce "Sunny Days", a documentary film about the life of Viktor Tsoi.
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