October 3, 1969 In Anaheim (California) born Gwen Stephanie Renee. She grew quiet girl, a kind mother's daughter. However, in school it was sometimes very hard was hardly given grammar (by the way, she still writes with errors). But Gwen was not discouraged: he played for the school in competitions in swimming, played the Piccolo in the school orchestra. There was the older brother Eric. Together they made music, they had their own little party.1987 Stephanie graduated from the state University of Californiav Fullerton and High school Loar where she was a member of the swimming team. The first work Stephanie was mopping floors in a fast-food "Dairy Queen", she has also worked in the store.
1986
Eric decided to form his own band, he invited his sister as a backing vocalist. In the beginning, in No Doubt, it was just three people: Eric, Gwen and John Spence, buddy Eric. Say, a favorite expression of John was "no doubt" that can be translated as "without a doubt, without any doubt". This saying, and became the group name.
1991
No Doubt enters into a contract with Interscope Records.
1992
Debut album, "No Doubt", a rather unusual mix of ska and pop music of the 80 X. However, the band was quite unlucky with the release date of the album in 1991, Nirvana released their now legendary album Nevermind, and America was flooded by a wave of grunge. Album No Doubt appeared to be absolutely not fashionable, and the sale fell through. As a result the company Interscope refused to support the tour and No Doubt to Finance the recording of the albums.
1994 The records and released his second album, The Beaker Street Collection, much more like punk rock. Shortly after the release of the album, the band have gone Eric Stefani (he later became one of the animators of the first episodes of "the Simpsons").
The end of 1994 The group managed to re-establish relations with Interscope Records
October 1995 released a third album Tragic Kingdom - alloy punk, ska, new wave and unusually open, lyrical lyrics Gwen Stefani, in which Gwen tells about the break-up with Tony Ken.
1996
The album Tragic Kingdom falls into the American top 10, and by the end of the year achieves first place in the sales chart. The album became popular all over the world and have sold over 15 million copies. The next album, which fans No Doubt had to wait a few years.
2000 The album Return of Saturn. He received great reviews from the critics, but failed sales. Itself Gwen calls the most "dark period" of her life. "It was my dark, gloomy phase. Return of Saturn was the album introspection. I was 29, and I asked myself: "Who am I? " I think the others thought the same way".
2001
Gwen Stefani took a little sabbatical and recorded a duet with reperta Willows (Eve), Let Me Blow Your Mind; by the way, this song received a Grammy nomination for "Best duet rap/vocals" in 2002.
2001 Released another album, Rock Steady. On this album he worked with several well-known producers, including William Orbit (who worked on the last album Madonna), and from this album the eyeballs Packed with modern rhythms.
2002 The singer took 22nd place in the list of the sexiest women on the planet, named the magazine "Stuff magazine".
2002 Gwen Stefani married Gavin of Rosdale, vocalist and guitarist of the British rock band "Bush".
2004 The singer has launched his own brand of L. A. M. B., disclosing her name as Love, Angel, Music, Baby. According to her, she wanted to create clothes that could be worn by itself. The first show took place in new York
2004 Gwen played a cameo role in a Hollywood movie star Jean Harlow in the movie Martin Scorsese's "the Aviator" (2004). Partners set included such famous actors as Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Beckinsale, cate Blanchett and Alec Baldwin.
November 22 2004 Was released a debut solo album Gwen Stefani, Love. Angel. Music. Baby.". In the first week in the US was sold 310 000 copies of the album, which is greater than the volume of sales of any album "No Doubt" in the corresponding period. The album rose to No. 5 hit parade "Billboard 200", was 5 in the canadian chart, the fourth - in the UK and the first in Australia. From the album "Love. Angel. Music. Baby." was released 6 singles: "What You Waiting For? ", "Rich Girl", "Hollaback Girl", "Cool", "Luxurious" and "Crash".
2005 Gwen Stefani were among the 50 most beautiful people, named by the magazine "People".
2005 "Hollaback Girl" became the first composition, number of downloads which store iTunes exceeded a million times, and the most frequently downloaded song in the store "iTunes". In addition, with this song Stephanie received 2 nominations for a Grammy.
September 16 2005 Fashion brand L. A. M. B., cost the singer in millions of dollars, has become one of the highlights of new York fashion Week.
December 2005 Stefani and her husband Gavin Rossdale announced that they expect by the end of may - beginning of June 2006 the emergence of the firstborn. Happy parents decided not to find out the sex of the baby. The boy was born at the medical center Cedars-Sinai in Los Angeles and weighed in at 3, 5 kilograms. The baby was named Kingston James McGregor Rossdale (Kingston James McGregor Rossdale).
on August 21 2008 The singer gave birth to a second child, a boy, who was named Zuma Nesta Rock (Zuma Nesta Rock)
Discography:
No Doubt - 1992
The Beacon Street Collection - 1994
Tragic Kingdom - 1995
Return of Saturn - 2000
Rock Steady - 2001
Unsorted - 2002
Love. Angel. Music. Baby. - 2004
The Sweet Escape - 2006
Love. Angel. Music. Baby. [Circuit City Exclusive] - 2008
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