LADY STARLIGHT is a rock n roll public servant. As a DJ, record collector, style icon, writer and producer, she is bringing rock and heavy metal back into it’s rightful place in pop culture.
Lady Starlight been an influential presence in the New York City underground since the early 2000's. She has produced nightlife events that celebrate forgotten genres over the past decade. From late 60’s psych, to 70’s glam, to the New Wave of British Heavy Metal.She has done solo international tours as a DJ with stops in London, Los Angeles, Vancouver and Chicago. She partnered with the Morgan’s Hotel Group to create a reputation for the brand as a rock n roll destination.
Her persona has been an inspriation to many artists, most notably Lady GaGa. Lady Starlight has been a critical player in Lady GaGa’s success. Her approach to art and music, inspired GaGa personally and professionally. Lady Starlight has collaborated with the singer on everything from fashion styling, onstage performance concepts, and set design. The two joined forces as a duo in 2007, ‘Lady GaGa and the Starlight Revue’. Lady Starlight spinning her 70’s glam and metal records between GaGa’s pop songs. The shock and confusion their stage show created would become a trademark for GaGa. From July 2010 to May 2011, Lady Starlight performed as the opening act on Lady GaGa’s record breaking world tour, The Monster Ball.
Lady Starlight was a featured prominently in the Emmy nominated HBO special presentation: The Monster Ball at Madison Square Garden. She was voted "Best Female Hard Rock DJ" by the popular New York City weekly, The L Magazine. Recent press includes an AOL home page feature, interviews in Rolling Stone, MTV, and Guardian, She was a guest along with Perry Farrell and Gene Simmons on the popular Chicago radio show, ‘Mancow in the Morning’.
In honor of their biggest show as a duo in 2007 at the Chicago, IL festival, Lollapalooza, Lady Starlight joined Lady GaGa on stage during her headlining performance at the festival in summer of 2010. Resurrecting an original dance number to Metallica’s classic track Metal Militia, to a crowd of 80,000.
Lady Starlight is currently working on music production, writing and fashion design projects.
Q1. What was the first record you bought and how did it change your life?
Rant N Rave with the Stray Cats-It sent me back in time and I havent gone forward since.
Q2. You’re a fixture on the New York downtown creative scene. What is your background? Did you come to New York from another place or is this your hometown?
I grew up in upstate New York, moved to London after university and then to NYC so I wouldn't get deported for a forged work visa. For most people moving to NYC is the dream, to be honest, for me, it was just the most European city in America..haha
Q3. I know you love to dance and perform. Can you tell me a bit about the performance projects that you are involved with or are creating at the moment?
I do a mix of djing and performance. It came from being a gogo dancer and always thinking the dj should play something else. so I decided to just do both. I'm my own gogo dancer. Talk about full service. I got off tour with my best friend Lady GaGa in May. and then Judas Priest! I'm also working on a noise album using progressive rock samples. I'm sure it will chart on Billboard Hot 100
Q4. Can you tell me your top ten records? The classics that you’d take away if you were stranded on Mars?
Pawn Hearts-Van Der Graaf Generator
Hemispheres-Rush
Iron Maiden-Iron Maiden
Diamond Dogs-Bowie
British Steel-Judas Priest
Desolation Boulevard-Sweet
Sum of the Men-Man is the Bastard
Nadirs Big Chance-Peter Hammill
...And Justice For All-Metallica
Phenomenon-UFO
Q5. I am sure you are sick of talking about Lady Gaga, however for the benefit of readers of this site (or anyone who actually has been on Mars for the past few years) , can you talk a bit about your early shared experiences with Stefani Germanotta before she became better known as to the world Lady Gaga?
GaGa and I were basically a punk band on the LES. Punk in the true sense of the term, not the formulaic style its turned into. we created a stage show with cheap halloween store props and homemade bikinis. infusing my heavy metal and glam records with her pop music and perfromed at indie rock venues. and we all know indie rockers are afraid of sex and adverse to having fun... We WANTED people to hate us! but it didnt work..hahaha
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