Talena A. L. Atfield (born January 14, 1983) is a Canadian

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player, best known as a former member of the heavy metal group

Kittie Kittie is a Canadian Heavy metal music, heavy metal band formed in London, Ontario in 1996. All of their material has been released through independent record labels, which to date includes six studio albums, one video album, four extended plays ...

Musical career

Kittie

Atfield had just about given up on playing in a band when she received a phone call from Mercedes Lander. Atfield was asked to take the place in local band Kittie as their bassist Tanya Candler had just left for "personal reasons". Talena had been a supporter of Kittie and was happy to join them so she learned how to play bass guitar in two weeks to go out to New York to film the video for "Brackish". In 1999, Atfield joined Kittie to replace Tanya Candler on bass guitar. Although she did not play on '' Spit'', the first studio album by Kittie, the cover art on later pressings was changed to represent her presence in the band. She performed on their second album and the band's accompanying live appearances. In 2002, Talena Atfield left and was replaced on bass guitar by Jennifer Arroyo.

After Kittie

Atfield was also a member of Fallon Bowman's Amphibious Assault

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project. Atfield served on a judging panel for ''

America's Hot Musician ''America's Hot Musician'' is an American television program which first aired on '' Lifetime Real Women'' in July 2008. The show is a reality talent competition which features strictly instrumental solo musicians of varying styles competing for ...

'', a reality talent competition for instrumental musicians, alongside Duke Ellington Orchestra alumnus

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and

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violinist Marissa Regni. The show was to air on the Oxygen Network in July 2007. An attorney representing the current incarnation of Kittie served American Youth Symphony (producers of ''America's Hot Musician'') a cease-and-desist letter for their use of clips from the band's video "What I Always Wanted" in the opening sequence of the show.

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