Roxy Saint | |
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Birth name | Roxanne Saint |
Born |
Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
November 5, 1977
Genres | Hard rock, punk rock, gothic, alternative rock |
Occupation(s) | Musician, songwriter, singer, producer, director, fashion designer, actress |
Instruments | Guitar, vocals, percussion |
Associated acts | Roxy Saint and The Blackouts Queens of the Stone Age Eric Griffin McQueen Chris Goss Miguel Rascón Die Trying |
Roxanne "Roxy" Saint (born November 5, 1977) is an American singer, musician, video producer, director, and actress who started singing at age 17. She's known for her role in the film Zombie Strippers and as the lead performer in the goth band Roxy Saint and the Blackouts.
An only child whose father died when she was 2, Saint was raised in Southern California by her mother. She has one son, Jackson, born to Saint and husband Josh Evans in December 2010.
In the early 1990s, she was the vocalist for Hollywood band Never on Sunday. She went solo, and in 1995 released the CD Orphan Child, which contained rerecorded songs from her previous band. Her debut DVD release, however, which Saint directed and produced, was The Underground Personality Tapes in 2003. She toured in England, including performing at the Leeds and Reading festivals. Blog Critics called Saint "the next huge thing" and "PJ Harvey crossed with Sophia Coppola."
She has released her music, which include videos, as an indie producer, via DVDs, the Internet and digital downloads. Saint contributed to the rock band Die Trying's self-named album with guest vocals on the single "Dirty, Dirty".
She performed a song for the 1999 movie The Criminal, starring Steven Mackintosh, and a song for the 2002 film The Hot Chick, starring actor Rob Schneider.
KNAC radio's Mick Stingley, in a CD/DVD review of The Underground Personality Tapes, wrote that Saint was "New Wave retro cool, LA glammo sleaze-rock, with Boss Super Over-Drive distortion pedal to the floor" who "has something to offer." And in a 2004 interview, In Music We Trust Magazine described Saint's brand of music as "defying convention and going against logic."
Also in 2004, Saint, who's known for shopping for her clothes at thrift stores, launched her own clothing line titled Trash Couture with her dresses numbered and individually named ("Chaos," "Aquarius" and "Glitch"). MK Magazine described the line as "one-of-a-kind dresses made from black plastic trash bags."