Gwen Stefani
Gwen Renée Stefani is an American singer, songwriter, record producer and fashion designer. She is a co-founder, lead vocalist, and the primary songwriter of the band No Doubt. She has sold more than 30 million albums worldwide and is the 54th most successful artist of the 2000–2009 decade. She was married to British musician Gavin Rossdale from 2002 to 2016.
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Gwen Renée Stefani is an American singer, songwriter, record producer and fashion designer. She is a co-founder, lead vocalist, and the primary songwriter of the band No Doubt. During the band’s hiatus, Stefani embarked on a solo pop career in 2004 by releasing her debut studio album Love. Angel. Music Baby. She has won three Grammy Awards. As a solo artist, she has received an American Music Award, Brit Award, World Music Award and two Billboard Music Awards. She was married to British musician Gavin Rossdale from 2002 to 2016 and they have three sons. In 2003, she debuted her clothing line L. A. M. B. and expanded her collection with the 2005 Harajuku Lovers line, inspired by Japanese culture and fashion. Her fourth solo album and first full-length Christmas-themed album, You Make It Feel Like Christmas, was released in 2017 and charted 17 tracks on Billboard’s Holiday Digital Song Sales component chart in the United States. VH1 ranked her 13th on their \”100 Greatest Women in Music\” list in 2012. Stefani has sold more than 30 million albums worldwide and is the 54th most successful artist of the 2000–2009 decade. Her middle name, Renée, comes from The Four Tops’ 1968 cover of The Left Banke’s 1966 song \”Walk Away Renée\”. Her father, Dennis Stefani, is Italian-American and worked as a Yamaha marketing executive. Her mother, Patti, is Irish American and worked as an accountant before becoming a housewife.
In 1991 the band was personally signed to Interscope Records by Jimmy Iovine. The band released its self-titled debut album in 1992, but its ska-pop sound was unsuccessful due to the popularity of grunge. In late 2000, Rolling Stone magazine nominated The Beacon Collection for a Grammy for a record of the year. The album took more than three years to make and sell more than 16million copies worldwide by late 2000. In 2004, the band released the self-released The Beacon Street Collection, which led the Hot 100 Airplay year-end chart of 1997. In 2006, the group released their second studio album, The Sweet Escape, the latter of which was number three on the Billboard Hot 100 year- end chart of 2007. In 2010, the trio released their third album, This Is What the Truth Feels Like, which was her first solo album to reach number one on the Billboard 200 chart. In 2012, they released their fourth album, The Beacon Collection, and it was a critical and commercial success. In 2013, they went on tour for one semester to tour for Tragic Kingdom but did not return when touring lasted two and a half years. In 2014, they toured for two and half years to tour the UK and Europe. In 2015, they announced a tour of the UK for the European leg of their tour.
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