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Dana Kletter (born October 21, 1959) is an American musician and writer. ==Biography== Kletter and her twin sister Karen were born in Baltimore, Maryland and raised in New York. Dana began playing piano at age four. She attended American University in Washington, D.C. where she studied piano with Alan Mandel. She left music school and submerged herself in the DC Hardcore punk rock scene at its apex, in the early 1980s. There she met the friends who would become part of her professional musical life. ===blackgirls=== Dana moved to Raleigh, North Carolina in 1985 and formed blackgirls,〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://ectoguide.org/guide.cgi?search=&source=quick&pw=yes&for=black+girls )〕 described by the ''Chicago Reader'' as a "dark art-folk trio," with Eugenia Lee Johnson and Hollis Brown. The band performed for several years and released a single as part of the ''Evil I Do Not To Nod I Live'' boxset with four other North Carolina bands (including the early bands of Superchunk guitarist and Merge Records mastermind Mac McCaughan), and a five song EP, ''Speechless''. In his Spin magazine review of ''Speechless'', Tony Fletcher noted, "…hints of absolute greatness within, most noticeably on "Queen Anne," a ballad in which Dana Kletter's vocals lean towards the sultry peaks of Nico and Marianne Faithfull…" 〔''Spin'', June 1988〕 The band came to the attention of American auteur producer Joe Boyd (Nick Drake, Sandy Denny, Fairport Convention, Pink Floyd, REM). Boyd signed blackgirls to his European-based Hannibal Records label and Mammoth Records of Chapel Hill, North Carolina became their American label. Boyd produced two full-length blackgirls LPs, ''Procedure'' in 1989 and ''Happy'' in 1991. The records were a critical success and the band toured regularly and performed on NPR's Mountain Stage, BBC-Radio 4-Woman's Hour. However internal problems caused the group to disband in 1992.〔Raleigh News and Observer, April 5, 1998〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Dana Kletter」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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