Brody Dalle, is a singer, songwriter and guitarist.
She rose to fame as lead singer/guitarist for the punk rock band The Distillers. She is currently a member of Spinnerette.
When she was young, Dalle was expelled from four schools, and was sent to a Catholic girls’ institution.The strict rules did not deter her antisocial and self-destructive behavior. By her mid-teens, Dalle was self-harming, taking drugs (although in an interview with The Face magazine in 2004, she denied taking drugs on a habitual basis), and truanting to provide a release for her anger The unstable relationship with her mother hit rock bottom when an incident led to them trying to strangle each other in the kitchen.
At the age of 13, Dalle started a band of her own, Sourpuss, which developed a solid fanbase, and played alongside Beastie Boys and Sonic Youth at Australia’s Summersault Festival.
She met Tim Armstrong, the frontman of the punk band Rancid at this festival when she was sixteen. She met him after seeing him packing up the drums backstage, and the two subsequently pursued a relationship.
Despite Armstrong being 13 years her senior, and Dalle initially lying about her age, the couple got engaged shortly after Dalle turned eighteen. She moved with Armstrong from Melbourne to Los Angeles, California and there founded The Distillers, which took their name from a distillery Brody saw in Geelong.
Date of birth : 1st Jan 1979
Place of birth : Melbourne, Australia
