The family moved frequently during her childhood, from Simi Valley to Reseda, before settling in Burbank when Carlisle was seven years old. At age ten, Carlisle began to express interest in music, and recalled the Beach Boys, Cat Stevens, the Stylistics, and the Animals as being early musical influences. During her teenage years, Carlisle became rebellious: "By the time I hit fourteen, I'd gone really wild," she said. Carlisle fell in love with the s punk scene in Los Angeles, passing up college for life as a musician.
She adopted the stage name Dottie Danger and became the drummer for an early version of the punk band the Germs. In , she formed an all-female band with Jane Wiedlin guitar, vocals , Margot Olavarria bass and Elissa Bello drums , named the Misfits. They soon added Charlotte Caffey guitar, keyboards , and by the time they replaced Bello with Gina Schock in , they were known as the Go-Go's.
After another change to their lineup, with Kathy Valentine taking over for Olavarria, the Go-Go's released their debut album, Beauty and the Beat, in The record surged to the top spot on the Billboard album chart and stayed there for six weeks, eventually going triple platinum.
The first all-female band ever to hit No. The Go-Go's were eager to prove that they could do anything their male counterparts could do, and that applied to the hard-living side of the rock star scene as well.
They're going to think I'm a flake, they're going to think I'm a drug addict and they're going to think I'm irresponsible - so I might as well become all those things. Personality conflicts and spiraling drug use took a toll on the band, and the Go-Go's broke up in A year later, Carlisle married Morgan Mason, a former aide to President Ronald Reagan, and reinvented herself as a solo pop star.
Her first solo album, Belinda , went gold. Her second album, Heaven on Earth , was even more successful, and she earned a Grammy nomination for the hit single "Heaven is a Place on Earth. Two years later, the family moved to France, where Carlisle continued to record solo albums. However, all was not perfect for the pop star, who continued to struggle with a cocaine addiction. At the age of 42, Carlisle posed naked for Playboy magazine in an attempt to revitalize her career, but her drug abuse continued to hold her back professionally.
Finally, in , Carlisle embarked on kicking her drug habit through a combination of yoga and Alcoholics Anonymous. In , Carlisle released the French-language album Voila, her first solo album in 10 years. She competed on Dancing with the Stars in , and was scheduled to take part in a Go-Go's reunion tour in , before it was canceled when Jane Wiedlin hurt her leg. That same year, Carlisle released her tell-all memoir, Lips Unsealed, which became a best seller.
In March , Carlisle released her first U. The single was also released in the United Kingdom. Lopez also produced the song. While the track did not chart, it received positive reviews. Carlisle confirmed in a radio interview in August that she has completed work on a new album, tentatively earmarked for release in January Also in August , Edsel released a box set of all the commercially released singles from Carlisle's studio albums, plus a bonus disc featuring a previously-unreleased recording of "In My Wildest Dreams", which had featured in the film Mannequin.
In late , the Go-Go's completed an international tour with Best Coast as a supporting act, which Carlisle stated would likely be their last tour together. Carlisle's eighth studio album, a selection of Gurmukhi chants titled Wilder Shores, was released in September Belinda is best-known as the lead singer of the Go-Go's, one of the most successful all-female bands of all time.
She voiced her endorsement of Bernie Sanders as the Democratic Party's presidential nominee for the U. Carlisle is a supporter of several causes. She has been an ardent supporter of LGBT rights, which she made public after her son, Duke, came out to her at age fourteen. Carlisle is also a vegetarian and a supporter of animal rights. Item specifics. Very Good: A book that does not look new and has been read but is in excellent condition.
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