Andy Prieboy

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Andy Prieboy is a musician, author, and former morgue attendant. He replaced Stan Ridgway as the lead singer of Wall of Voodoo after Ridgway left the band in 1983. Seven Days In Sammystown was the first Wall of Voodoo album featuring Prieboy. This was followed up by Happy Planet and finally Ugly Americans In Australia which was a live album they recorded to fulfill their recording obligations to IRS Records. After leaving Wall Of Voodoo, Andy signed to MCA as a songwriter and went to work on new material for his first solo record ...Upon My Wicked Son, which featured the hit song "Tomorrow Wendy" about a woman dying of AIDS. This song was later recorded by the band Concrete Blonde and appears on their album Bloodletting. It was also covered by the techno band System Syn in early 2000's. Linda Ronstadt and Emmy Lou Harris covered his song "Loving the Highway Man" from the same album. Andy then released an EP called Montezuma Was a Man of Faith which featured a hillbilly-fied recording of Whole Lotta Love by Led Zeppelin featuring an uncredited Johnette Napolitano from Concrete Blonde. Andy's second solo album was entitled Sins of Our Fathers.

In the mid-to-late '90s Andy played shows at the Los Angeles hipster club Largo where he worked on his ongoing musical, White Trash Wins Lotto; a Gilbert and Sullivan-esque treatment of the rise and fall of an Axl Rose-like character. It was also performed at the Roxy Theatre on the Sunset Strip for three sold out weekend-long engagements. Andy and crew also performed a medley from White Trash on the Conan O'Brien show.

Andy is also the co-author with Merrill Markoe of the novel The Psycho Ex Game, based on his song "Psycho Ex".

As of 2006, resides in L.A. and is working on new material for a upcoming album and follow-up novel.

Early in his career, he was in the San Francisco art band Eye Protection, which had one track on the compilation Rising Stars of San Francisco: "Take Her Where The Boys Are". They also recorded a 7-inch single called "Elroy Jetson" with a b-side of "Go Go Girl" on Eleph Records.