Throwing Muses became a trio when Donelly left the group after 1991’s well received The Real Ramona. and Europe while recording critically acclaimed rock albums, with Hersh writing most of the songs. The group was signed by the British 4AD Records label in 1986 and, after one album, signed a U.S. Hutton attended several Throwing Muses concerts. Early in the band’s career, Hersh became friends with classic star Betty Hutton while both were students at Salve Regina University. Hersh began singing and writing most of Throwing Muses’ songs in changing tempos, with Donelly also singing and writing some of the songs. She has said her parents’ albums by Patti Smith, the Carter Family, Stevie Wonder, Robert Johnson, Talking Heads, The Clash, Steve Miller, The Beatles, Philip Glass, and traditional music influenced her when she was growing up. Hersh has listed among her early musical influences The Raincoats, Talking Heads, Violent Femmes, Meat Puppets, Dead Kennedys, Hüsker Dü, Velvet Underground, R.E.M., and X. As a teenager, she formed Throwing Muses in the early 1980s with stepsister Tanya Donelly and other high school friends that were subsequently replaced by bassist Leslie Langston and drummer David Narcizo.
She learned guitar at age nine from her father, and started writing songs soon after.
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She has written a memoir, titled Rat Girl, which was published in the USA by Penguin Books on Augand is co-founder of the non-profit, open-source software project for recording artists, CASH Music.īorn in Atlanta as Martha Kristin Hersh, she was raised in Newport, Rhode Island. She is the lead singer and guitarist for alternative rock group Throwing Muses and the hardcore punk-influenced power trio 50 Foot Wave. Kristin Hersh (born August 7, 1966) is an American singer/songwriter.
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