JOHNETTE NAPOLITANO
Johnette Napolitano is best known as the songwriter/bassist/vocalist of the Los Angeles rock trio Concrete Blonde and has toured and performed internationally for 30+ years. The early 90’s hit "Joey" from the multi-million-selling album Bloodletting achieved gold and platinum status in the U.S., Australia, and Canada.
As a co-writer, she contributed to the album No Talking, Just Head with members of The Talking Heads and toured with the Heads standing in for David Byrne on vocals and guitar.
She has also been featured on numerous film and TV soundtracks including Underworld with producer Danny Lohner of Nine Inch Nails.
Born in Hollywood 67 years ago, Johnette’s mentors were legendary pioneers and innovators of the recording industry and record business, including Leon Russell and the founders of Gold Star Studios, the first recording studio to be inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame.
Invited to a gifted young artist program at UCLA when she was 12, Napolitano continued to study art and was a student of the late Juan Quezada at his studio in Mata Ortiz, Mexico.
A self-described "studio rat," Johnette recorded much of her latest full-length album, 2022’s Exquisite Corpses at her Joshua Tree Recording Company. Most recently a 2024 collaboration with London-based DJ Alley Cat reached #2 on the Apple Music Dance chart. The album The Widow Project was recognized as one of the Top 10 Albums of the Year by the UK’s The Art Desk.
She has released two books of lyrics, photos and sketches, ‘Rough Mix’ Volumes 1 & 2, and three CDs as the ’Sketchbook’ series: demos, experiments and “things that don’t seem to fit anywhere else."
