Joanna Fields

Joanna Stingray is little known to the generation of the new millennium, but for the Russian rock masters the personality is cult, and for his St. Petersburg school - almost a muse. The American singer and actress in the 80s became, in fact, the first Western producer for the groups "Kino", "Alice", "Aquarium".

Joanna Stingray, née Fields, was born in July 1960 in Los Angeles. His father made a million dollar fortune in real estate, the family lived in the prestigious Beverly Hills.

The early years of Joanna's biography did not suggest that she would become a rocker and celebrity in a country with foundations opposite to her homeland. The girl studied at Beverly Hills High School, where she was a member of the school cheerleader team. She was serious about swimming and won competitions.

Music entered Fields' life when she entered the University of Southern California. The first songs appeared there, and in 1983 the aspiring singer released her first album, "Beverly Hills Brat", with four songs. Only the girl's name was on the cover. Joanna took the pseudonym Stingray later, so she disguised herself in front of intelligence agents on both sides of the ocean.

Joanna's work is closely connected with the USSR, the time of "love, poetry and romance." The singer met the country thanks to her father, who made an anti-Soviet film. And Stingray's perception is stereotyped - dull people, the all-powerful KGB. In the mid-80s, the singer's sister, who studied in England, invited Joanna to go to Moscow for a week. A mutual friend, an emigrant from the Soviet Union, was friends with Boris Grebenshchikov, gave his phone number and advised him to visit Leningrad.

Three days spent in the city on the Neva broke Stingray's stereotypes. She has never met such magic, according to the artist. Not only were there virtuosos in the USSR in the performance of rock and roll, but the people themselves turned out to be more open and friendly. Joanna still admires the talent of Sergei Kuryokhin, the modesty of Viktor Tsoi and the non-standard behavior of Sergei Afrika Bugaev.

The first Stingray record in the USSR was released in 1989 under the name "Stingray". It includes 4 compositions, one of them - "Turn Away" - a video was shot in which the future film and television star Igor Vernik appeared.

Joanna dedicated her album Walking Through Windows to the deceased Viktor Tsoi. The album's tracks include "Danger!", Which is a rehash of his "Unhappy Song". The video "Tsoi Song" is somewhat similar to the video "The Queen is Dead" by the British band The Smiths. In 1996, the singer presented a film from archive films "Sunny Days", prepared with Alexander Lipnitsky from "Sounds of Mu" in memory of Victor.

The primary sources of the compositions "Ashes" and "Rock'n'Roll is Dead" were the songs "Aquarium" - "Ashes" and "Rock'n'Roll is Dead". "Yerosha" is copied from "The Witch" performed by "Strange Games".

Another "Soviet album" by Stingray is Thinking 'Till Monday. In the video "Dancing in the Sky", Garik Sukachev, the frontman of "The Untouchables" and "Brigade C", starred. The clip "Baby Baby Bala Bala" includes footage from the movie "Freak", in which Joanna performed for the first and last time as an actress.

In 1998, the singer recorded the studio album "Shades of Yellow". Session musicians included members of the Atomic Rooster and The Parrots. Joanna has already returned to the United States for 2 years now, frightened by the crisis of the "dashing 90s" that broke out in Russia. Therefore, this album is considered the only truly American album in the artist's discography.

Joanna's main hit is not her own work, but the album "Red Wave 4 undеrground bands frоm USSR". The disc with the songs of the groups of friends "Strange Games", "Aquarium", "Kino" and "Alice" was released with a circulation of only 10 thousand copies, but then it was a grandiose breakthrough. Stingray took out the sources, hiding the cassettes in clothes and shoes. The Soviet government did not forgive the American woman for such a demarche, banning her from entering the country for six months and thereby endangering Joanna's wedding.

In 2004 and 2009, Stingray came to Russia with concerts, in the meantime she released the album "May Thеre Always Be Sunshine", the title of which is the words from the song of the Soviet children "Let the sun always be there."

In the Soviet Union, an American woman developed not only a successful business life, but also a part of her personal life. In 1987 Stingray became the wife of Yuri Kasparyan, the guitarist of the Kino group, whom the singer calls her first true and strongest love. But the couple quickly divorced. Later, the artist married Alexander Vasiliev, a member of the rock group "Center". In the marriage, a daughter, Madison, was born, and this family also fell apart. The reason for this, according to Joanna, is the reluctance to raise a child in a rock environment.

Bass guitarist of the same band Vasily Shumov married Judy, Joanna's sister, left for the USA in 1990, returned in 2009. The singer believes that a Russian person can create only in his homeland, which his compatriots simply did not understand, because Americans are essentially immigrants from other countries.

According to rumors, Stingray could not do without an affair with Grebenshchikov, but Joanna claims that love with the soloist of "Aquarium" did not go beyond the platonic, besides, she knew Boris's wife Natalia well.

The last husband of the artist was a certain Stephen; the singer, according to unconfirmed information, also broke up with him.

The musician's daughter is well aware of how famous her parents were in the Soviet Union. The girl has already visited Russia and dreams of obtaining Russian citizenship, because "it is incredibly beautiful and wonderful people here." And married, as Madison admitted in an interview, she will marry a "handsome Russian". She inherited the creative genes of her mother - the video "Don't Come Down On Me", in which Joanna and Madison sing and play together, has been distributed on the Internet.

Closely friends with the leader of the "Kino" group, the singer had heard a lot about the film "Summer" directed by Kirill Serebrennikov and about the assessment that Boris Grebenshchikov gave to the film: everything that is shown is a lie. According to Joanna, there is a grain of fiction in the film, but the director's fantasy should not distort the facts about Viktor Tsoi. And to tell the whole truth, you need to live and communicate in the environment and the time about which the story is being told.

In May 2018, the singer and her daughter visited St. Petersburg, introduced Madison to the leader of Aquarium and announced that she was preparing two books for release and plans to make a film about the years spent in the Union and the people she brought life to during this period. ... In the books, Joanna wants to publish a photo with Vyacheslav Butusov, Sergey Galanin, Alexander Bashlachev, Konstantin Kinchev and other musicians now known to the audience.

A couple of years before the trip, Stingray posted some of the rare pictures on the Internet, including on Instagram. The singer was told that such a rarity could make money, but Joanna wanted to make a gift to fans who have not forgotten her.

1983 - "Beverly Hills Brat" 1987 - "Save Stingray" 1988 - "Reggae From Around the World" 1989 - "Stingray" 1990 - "Thinking Till Monday" 1991 - "Walking Through Windows" 1991 - "Joanna Stingray Greatest Hits" 1993 - "Greenpeace Rocks" 1993 - "Rock Me But Don't Disrupt My Mind" 1994 - "For a Moment" 1998 - "Shades of Yellow" 2004 - "May There Always Be Sunshine"

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