Stan Ridgway

Stanard ' Stan ' Ridgway ( born April 5, 1954 in Barstow, California) is an American musician.

Stan Ridgway was in the 1980s, founding member, singer and one of the creative minds of the band Wall of Voodoo, whose most famous song is Mexican radio from the album Call Of The West by 1982. He left the group soon after and established himself as a solo artist. Ridgway's biggest hit in Europe was the single camouflage from his debut album The Big Heat, which made ​​it into the UK to # 4 on the singles chart and can now be found on many compilations with music of the 1980s, 1986. Camouflage in Germany reached 8th place in Austria number 17 and number 11 in Switzerland. Three years later he had with the single Calling Out ​​To Carol from the album Mosquitos another radio hit, which has survived to this day in the playlists of large broadcasting (WDR 2, SWR3 ). Party Ball 1991 was his last album for a major label. In addition, Ridgway was repeatedly involved as a musician on film projects, for example, in 1983 the song Do not Box Me In with Stewart Copeland ( drummer for the band The Police ) in Francis Ford Coppola's film Rumble Fish, the film adaptation of the novel by Susan E. Hinton.

He is married to the singer and keyboardist Pietra Wexstun. The couple Ridgway / Wexstun is also musically tight knit together: while Pietra regularly appears solo albums on Stan, he is a member of her band Hecate 's Angels. In addition, both are active since 1995 with the Drywall project and fell back in 2003 together the soundtrack album Blood for an exhibition of American painter Mark Ryden on. In addition, Ridgway has a penchant for the music of Kurt Weill ( German text by Bertolt Brecht), but is not his interpretations of these works can be found on his solo albums (on the best-of compilation Songs That Made This Country Great by 1992 However, a recording of the Cannon song from the Threepenny Opera included).

Special

Ridgway passionate about since childhood for ventriloquism. For this reason, appeared in the video for the song Big Dumb Town from the album Black Diamond in a corresponding doll that bears the name Jackie " Teak" Lazar. On some albums solo pieces by Jackie can be heard, often cover versions of popular songs like A Very Good Year ( originally recorded by Frank Sinatra ).

Since the beginning of his career, Stan Ridgway has to contend with a typo in his name: Possibly because of the debate can be found in many sources, the spelling Ridgeway. This notation persists to this day and has found himself in some online catalogs and similar works collection.

Discography ( albums)

  • Wall of Voodoo (1980, as Wall of Voodoo )
  • Dark Continent (1981, as Wall of Voodoo )
  • Call of The West (1982, as Wall of Voodoo )
  • Granma 's House (1984, best-of- album as Wall of Voodoo )
  • The Big Heat ( 1986)
  • Mosquitos (1989 )
  • Party Ball ( 1991)
  • Songs That Made This Country Great (1992, Best -Of- Album)
  • Work The Dumb Oracle (1995, as Drywall )
  • Black Diamond (1996 )
  • Movie Songs ( 1997 compilation album )
  • The Way I Feel Today (1998, covers album )
  • Anatomy ( 1999)
  • Holiday In Dirt ( 2002 compilation album )
  • Blood (2003, soundtrack album with Pietra Wexstun )
  • Snakebite (2004)
  • Barbeque Babylon (2005, as Drywall )
  • Neon Mirage (2010)
  • Mr. Trouble ( 2012)
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