Roxanne Fontana

Roxanne Fontana
Roxanne Fontana pictured beside Long Island Singer family mansion ruin.
Background information
Birth name	Roseann Fontana
Born	(1959-09-02) 2 September 1959 (age 58) Brooklyn, New York, U.S.
Genres	Rock, blues, rock and roll, blues rock, folk rock, country rock, psychedelic rock
Occupation(s)	Musician, singer-songwriter, poet, author, actress, clothing and jewelry designer
Instruments	Vocals, guitar
Years active	1979–present
Labels	Etoile Records
Website	MusicGlue - Etoile Records

Roxanne Fontana (born Roseann Fontana 2 September 1959) is a dual-national Italian American author, singer, songwriter, musician, recording artist, poet, actress, and clothing and jewelry designer.

Fontana was born in Brooklyn, New York in the United States. Her parents were working class Italian-Americans from Brooklyn’s Bedford Stuyvesant slums. Fontana spent her childhood in the 1960s a few blocks from the childhood home of writer Arthur Miller, in the predominantly Italian and Jewish neighbourhood of the part of Brooklyn bordering Midwood and Bensonhurst. It was here in 1968 that she developed an interest in fashion design after a child modelling try-out in a Lexington Avenue agency in New York City. Fontana developed her songwriting, guitar playing, singing and journal writing, living in Elmont, Long Island, US, during the 1970s. An avid music fanatic, Fontana ran an international fan club for Rolling Stone Brian Jones, which was officially recognized by the Rolling Stones, in the mid- to late 1970s.

Fontana has over 80 compositions registered with the United States Copyright Office, authoring both lyrics and music.

Fontana began her music career at New York City nightclubs during the 1980s. This included multiple performances at CBGB, The Bitter End, and Webster Hall, among many others. Fontana’s bands The Blue Way, Kid Blue, and Ruzenka and the Big Dream, were male rock groups that Fontana dominated by writing all of the material, and fronting. She also performed under her name Roseann Fontana for a number of shows, from acoustic shows to fronting bands as a solo artist. Fontana recorded unreleased material until her first release in 1999. The unreleased material included a popular Fontana song called, “Lifetrap” which was mixed by Ivan Kral during Iggy Pop recording Sessions for the album Party. Kral also added synthesizer and keyboards to the track.