Brody Dalle

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Brody Dalle
Brody Dalle in the music video for The Hunger
Born	January 1, 1979 (age 28) in Geelong, Melbourne
Genre(s)	Punk Rock
Affiliation(s)	The Distillers Spinnerette (yet to release music)
Years active	1998 - present
Official site	Official Distillers website

Brody Dalle (born Bree Mayer on January 1, 1979 in Geelong, Australia), is the lead singer, songwriter and guitarist for the punk rock band The Distillers.

Dalle's father is English. Her father left her mother and the young Bree when she was very young, but her mother later remarried and had another child, named Maddy.

Dalle had a troubled existence from the start. When she was young, she was expelled from four schools, and was sent to a Catholic girls' institution. The strict rules did not seem to deter her antisocial and self-destructive behavior. Actually, it was quite the contrary, and may have spurred it on. By her mid-teens, Dalle was self-harming, taking drugs (though in an interview with The Face magazine in 2004, she denied taking drugs on a habitual basis), and truanting to provide a release for her anger. The unstable relationship with her mother hit rock bottom when an incident led to them trying to strangle each other in the kitchen.

In her late teens, Dalle started a band of her own, Sourpuss, which developed a solid fanbase, and played alongside Beastie Boys and Sonic Youth at Australia's Somersault Festival. She met Tim Armstrong, the frontman of the punk band Rancid at this festival when she was sixteen. She saw him packing up the drums backstage, and the two promptly fell head-over-heels in love with each other. Despite Armstrong being 13 years her senior, and Dalle initially lying about her age, the couple get engaged shortly after Dalle turned eighteen, but then she brok eit off over the phone. She moved with Armstrong from Melbourne to Los Angeles, California and there founded The Distillers, which took their name from a distillery Brody saw in Melbourne.

The Distillers released their self-titled first album in 2000 receiving acclaim and comparisons to Hole. By the time The Distillers came back to the studio for their second album, the band had a complete overhaul in lineup. The Distillers' second effort was Sing Sing Death House. From that album they released 2 singles, the first being "The Young Crazed Peeling" and the second being "City of Angels." Their 2003 third release was Coral Fang. They released three singles from it: "Drain The Blood", "Beat Your Heart Out" and finally, "The Hunger". That same year they played Lollapalooza.

Dalle and Armstrong divorced in 2003. After they divorced, Brody reverted to using the surname of her favorite actress Béatrice Dalle of Betty Blue. Happily, Dalle has put her tumultuous beginnings behind her, made peace with her family, and is speculated to be engaged to Queens of the Stone Age frontman Josh Homme. She gave birth to their first child, Camille Harley Homme, on January 17, 2006. Dalle recently stated on the band's website that she is "pregnant" which fooled a lot of people, but she went on to explain that she was gestating a new album, not a new baby. The Distillers are not over, but and that a new band, Spinnerette, will be going forth. Both Brody and Tony Bradley are part of the project.

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Hair Color: Blonde
Eye Color: Grey (wears blue contacts on occasion)

Height: 5"8 (173 cm)

Weight: 150 lbs. (68 kg)

Released music: "The Distillers" (2000); "Sing Sing Death House" (2002); "Coral Fang" (2003).

Dalle is known for her sexy verve, incredible onstage presence and raspy, powerful voice.
Brett Gurewitz (Bad Religion) once said, "She has a voice like a gravel truck with a broken axle but she never misses a note".

Dalle ended her marriage with Armstrong over the phone from Australia.

Her unique voice has on various occasions been compared to those of Mia Zapata of The Gits and Courtney Love of Hole.

Sung backup vocals and played guitar on the non U.S version's of Sunset Strip, a song off of Courtney Love's debut solo album America's Sweetheart but is uncredited. Dalle also claims to be a co-writer of the song.