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Luscious Jackson

Luscious Jackson (1991 in New York, NY-2000) was an all-women band named for a '60s basketball player for the Philadelphia 76ers. The members were Kate Schellenbach (drums), Jill Cunniff (vocals, bass), Gabby Glaser (vocals, guitar), and Vivian Trimble (keyboards). They performed hip hop and dance inspired alternative music.

Schellenbach and Cunniff, who met while Schellenbach was drummer for the Beastie Boys whom Cunniff was interviewing for her zine, released a side project under the name Kostars in 1996.

Vivian Trimble and Josephine Wiggs released an album under the name Dusty Trails in 2000.

Discography

EPs

  • In Search of Manny (1992). Grand Royal.

Albums

  • Natural Ingredients (1994).
  • Fever In Fever Out (1996). Produced by Daniel Lanois.
  • Electric Honey (1999). Grand Royal and Capital Records, CDP 596084. Without Vivian Trimble.

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Vivian Trimble and Josephine Wiggs released an album under the name Dusty Trails in 2000. 2002: Another Phase (Sony Music Norge)
2004: White Turns Blue (Columbia)
2004: Mellow (Sony Music Norge). Schellenbach and Cunniff, who met while Schellenbach was drummer for the Beastie Boys whom Cunniff was interviewing for her zine, released a side project under the name Kostars in 1996. The young singer quickly gained fans and soon earned her first gold record. They performed hip hop and dance inspired alternative music. The song received heavy rotation on NRK P1, P4, Radio 1, Radio Oslo and NRK Petre. The members were Kate Schellenbach (drums), Jill Cunniff (vocals, bass), Gabby Glaser (vocals, guitar), and Vivian Trimble (keyboards). In January 2002, Maria's single "My Lullaby" debuted.

Luscious Jackson (1991 in New York, NY-2000) was an all-women band named for a '60s basketball player for the Philadelphia 76ers. Sony Music signed Maria Mena onto their label. Without Vivian Trimble. Then he presented his daughter's demo to the music industry. Grand Royal and Capital Records, CDP 596084. After pleading with her father to make a demo, he contacted some industry experts to record Maria's songs in the studio. Electric Honey (1999). Not all the stories in her diary became songs, but "My Lullaby" was one of them, expressing her pain from her parents' divorce.

Produced by Daniel Lanois. She sang and wrote lyrics as a therapy for her feelings and frustration. Fever In Fever Out (1996). When Maria was 13 years old she moved to live with her musician father. Natural Ingredients (1994). She suffered from depression and developed an eating disorder. Grand Royal. When Maria was nine years old her parents divorced, at which that time was very rough on Maria.

In Search of Manny (1992). Her father played in several bands in Oslo, which influenced Maria towards music. Both Maria and her younger brother Tony are named after characters from Leonard Bernstein's West Side Story. Her mother wrote plays and her father Charles was a drummer. Maria Mena was born into an artistic family.

Maria Viktoria Mena (born February 19, 1986) is a Norwegian pop star.