Label: Moroz Records (Russia), DMR 86007 CD
Style: Electronic, Rock, Folk Rock
Country: Los Angeles, California, U.S. (July 3, 1960)
Time: 38:26
Format: Flac Tracks 16/44,1 kHz
Size: 261 Mb
Joanna Stingray, born Joanna Fields, 1960) is an American singer, actress, music producer and socialite. She was a key figure in popularizing Soviet and Russian rock music and culture in the West in the 1980s.
Born Joanna Fields, Stingray is a native of Los Angeles, California. In 1983, Stingray released her U.S. 12-inch, 4-track debut, Beverly Hills Brat, under the name Joanna. In her early musical career, she performed at Studio 54.
In 1984, aged 23, Stingray traveled to Leningrad as a tourist with her sister, who was studying in London and had an opportunity to take a trip to visit the Soviet Union for one week. In Leningrad, she was introduced to Boris Grebenshchikov of the rock group Aquarium. Impressed by Grebenshchikov, and other artists' music, Stingray began smuggling the music of underground Soviet rock bands beyond the confines of the Soviet Union.
On July 27, 1986, Australian record company Big Time Records, released Red Wave: 4 Underground Bands from the Soviet Union, a double album consisting of songs collected and produced by Stingray. Each record side includes songs by one artist and the bands included are Aquarium, Kino, Alisa, and Strannye Igry (Strange Games). It was the first release of Russian rock music in the United States. The record caught the attention of popular western artists, among them David Bowie and Andy Warhol. The Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev also heard about it; surprised that this music was published by a foreign company, he instructed the Minister of Culture to ease the publication of music of young Soviet musicians inside the country.
Stingray spent most of the decade living in Russia, where she worked variously as a musician, actress and television presenter before returning to the United States in 1996. After leaving Russia, she lost contact with her Russian "family" and many of the friends she had met during that time.
It wasn't until 2018 that Stingray discovered Facebook and with the help of her daughter Madison, she was finally able to reconnect with many of her Russian friends, including Grebenshchikov. In 2019, Madison helped her mother to write a two-volume memoir that described her experiences in the Soviet rock scene, published in Russian. In September 2020, the English-language version of the memoir, Red Wave: An American in the Soviet Music Underground, was released.
(en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joanna_Stingray)
01. May There Always Be Sunshine (04:50)
02. I Wish (04:48)
03. Gosti (04:12)
04. Shades Of Yellow (03:48)
05. Melancholy High (03:55)
06. In Leather (04:00)
07. Steel Wheels (03:30)
08. Turn Away (04:04)
09. Modern Age Rock In Roll (02:29)
10. May There Always Be Sunshine (02:08)
11. Twinkle Twinkle (00:36)
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