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Adele Maria Bertei (born 1955) is an American singer, songwriter, writer and director. Early life. Bertei was born in Cleveland, Ohio in 1955. She is the oldest of three children born to Katherine (née Murphy) and Umberto Bertei. Her father was an Italian immigrant and her mother was of Irish and French Canadian descent.
Smoking? You must be joking. photo by Kiki Smith, 1977
Jun 13, 2023 · Bertei was the creator of the Bloods, the first all-woman openly queer rock band. She was part of the New York “no wave” movement of the late 1970s and went on to write songs or perform as a...
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Bertei works as a writer, director, performer, and musician, and resides in Los Angeles, CA. As author, her first book Peter and the Wolves is a short memoir of her rock and roll education via legendary Cleveland musician Peter Laughner, to be released by Smog Veil Records in November, 2020.
Mar 16, 2023 · As the frontwoman of the Bloods, Adele Bertei has always been a rule-breaker. If you haven't heard of the Bloods before, they were ahead of their time for more reasons than just their...
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“Adele Bertei is seriously brave and seemingly unafraid. What she has given us is a memoir of music and loss, a story of legendary Cleveland musician Peter Laughner, of Pere Ubu and Rocket From the Tombs, who died at 24 in 1977. Laughner’s most successful lyric, “Ain’t it fun when you know you’re gonna die young” is the soundtrack.
