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The Donnas were an American
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formed in
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, in 1993. The band consisted of
Brett Anderson Brett Lewis Anderson (born 29 September 1967) is an English singer best known as the lead singer and primary lyricist of the band Suede. After Suede disbanded in 2003, he fronted the Tears with former Suede guitarist Bernard Butler in 2004â ...
(lead vocals), Allison Robertson (guitar, backing vocals),
Maya Ford Maya Anne Ford (born January 8, 1979, in Oakland, California) is an American musician and the former bass player of rock band The Donnas. She also goes by the name Donna F. Early life Maya Anne Ford, was born on January 8, 1979, in Oakland, C ...
(bass guitar, backing vocals) and
Torry Castellano Torrance Heather Castellano (born January 8, 1979) is an American attorney and the former drummer of The Donnas. She announced her retirement from drumming in July 2010. About Castellano was born in San Francisco, California. She met future ...
(drums, percussion, backing vocals). Amy Cesari replaced Castellano, who left the band in 2009 due to tendonitis. They drew inspiration from the
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,
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,
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,
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,
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and
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. ''
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'' has stated that "the Donnas offer a guileless take on
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alienation; they traffic in kicks, not
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, fun rather than rage".
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has stated that the band offers "a good old-fashioned
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party". After gathering a
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in the
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scene since their 1997 debut, the band achieved
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commercial success in the early 2000s and afterward as their music mixed punk, metal and classic rock sounds.


History


Origins and early years: 1993–2001

All four founding band members were born in 1979. Lead vocalist
Brett Anderson Brett Lewis Anderson (born 29 September 1967) is an English singer best known as the lead singer and primary lyricist of the band Suede. After Suede disbanded in 2003, he fronted the Tears with former Suede guitarist Bernard Butler in 2004â ...
on May 30; guitarist Allison Robertson on August 26; bassist
Maya Ford Maya Anne Ford (born January 8, 1979, in Oakland, California) is an American musician and the former bass player of rock band The Donnas. She also goes by the name Donna F. Early life Maya Anne Ford, was born on January 8, 1979, in Oakland, C ...
and drummer
Torry Castellano Torrance Heather Castellano (born January 8, 1979) is an American attorney and the former drummer of The Donnas. She announced her retirement from drumming in July 2010. About Castellano was born in San Francisco, California. She met future ...
, both on January 8. They all became friends by eighth grade and formed as a band in May 1993 to play for their school's "Day on the Green." One of two
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s in their town
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, they were relatively unknown until they were out of high school. They are all self-taught musicians and practiced in Castellano's garage nearly every day during their years at
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. They called themselves "Ragady Anne" in their early days and shortly thereafter changed their name to "The Electrocutes". Towards the end of their high school days, while they were still known as the Electrocutes, they decided to create another band (with the same members) that would play softer tunes without distorting the metal queen image of the Electrocutes. To help their fans distinguish between the two bands, they all took matching "Donna" monikers, where all of their names were Donna and their last names were the first initial of their last name (Brett Anderson became Donna A, etc.), which they used only when performing as "The Donnas." They worked with producer
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for their first two albums, the first of which, simply called ''The Donnas'', was released on Raffaelli's Super*teem!
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. (It was later released again on
Lookout! Records Lookout Records (stylized as Lookout! Records) was an independent record label, initially based in Laytonville, California, and later in Berkeley, focusing on punk rock. Established in 1987, the label is best known for having released Operatio ...
.) They took a week off their senior year of high school to tour Japan as The Donnas, and were promoted and organized by of . Afterwards, they signed with
Lookout! Records Lookout Records (stylized as Lookout! Records) was an independent record label, initially based in Laytonville, California, and later in Berkeley, focusing on punk rock. Established in 1987, the label is best known for having released Operatio ...
. As the band grew, they were urged to sign with a major label company. In December 2001, they signed with
Atlantic Records Atlantic Recording Corporation (simply known as Atlantic Records) is an American record label founded in October 1947 by Ahmet Ertegun and Herb Abramson. Over the course of its first two decades, starting from the release of its first recor ...
.


Atlantic Records: 2002–2005

In 2002, the Donnas released '' Spend the Night'' as their Atlantic debut. The album represented their first attempt at mainstream success. With their single "Take it Off" they were booked for appearances on ''
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'', ''
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'', ''
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'', and the ''
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''. In the summer of 2003, they played the main stage at
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. In 2004, they released their sixth album ''
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''. In February 2005, they toured Australia with the
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music festival, playing from Sydney to Perth. While in Australia they performed "Take It Off" live on national
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" with
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. Atlantic repeatedly placed the Donnas' music in video game soundtracks. "You've Got a Crush On Me" can be heard in the
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game ''
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''. "Who Invited You" can be found on the soundtracks for '' True Crime: Streets of LA'' and ''
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'' as well as Splashdown: Rides Gone Wild. "I Don't Want to Know" is in the ''
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'' soundtrack also and a cover of the song was also used for ''
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'' for the
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. "I Don't Want to Know" was also used as the theme song for the first season of The-N's hit series, "
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". A cover of "Take it Off" is featured in ''
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'' and added as a downloadable track in ''
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'' on the
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(released in 2006) and ''
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'' (released in 2004). ''
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'' (for the
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,
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&
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), released by
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in 2008, features the track "New Kid In School" which was released exclusively on Apples iTunes service. "Fall Behind Me" was also used in a national television commercial advertising the Nissan Xterra while Take It Off was used in a Budweiser commercial. Atlantic also energetically marketed the Donnas through placements in numerous film soundtracks. The band appeared in the movie ''
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'' in 1999 (as The Electrocutes), and later on the TV show ''
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'' performing the single " Fall Behind Me" at P3. They also appeared in the 1999 teen comedy '' Jawbreaker'' as the prom band, contributing two songs to the soundtrack ("Rock 'N' Roll Machine" and "Checkin' It Out"). A cover of "Roll On Down The Highway" was used in the
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comedy film '' Herbie: Fully Loaded'' and Backstage was used in "Freaky Friday". The Donnas can also be heard on ''
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'' during the end credits playing a cover of the
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song " Dancing With Myself", and they also contributed to the soundtrack of the movie ''
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''. The video "Too Bad About Your Girl" also features the cast of that film. The song "Take It Off" features in the movie ''
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''. The song "Take Me To The Backseat" can be heard in the action comedy film 2004 '' D.E.B.S.''. A cover version of the
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song "
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" was used in the soundtrack to the 1999 movie ''
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''. "Please Don't Tease" was used in "New York Minute" and "Everyone Is Wrong " was featured in the movie "Elektra". Then
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used "Take It Off" for 2009
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. "Take It Off" was also used in the 2009 hit movie ''
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''. "Play My Game" was featured in a Season 1 episode of '' What's New, Scooby Doo?''. "Who Invited You" is featured on the soundtrack of the 2003 movie '' What a Girl Wants''.


New label, lineup change and dissolution: 2006–2012

On May 19, 2006, the Donnas announced on their public message board that they had "parted ways with Atlantic Records," claiming " e decision was entirely mutual and completely amicable and will not impact the band, nor will it impact upon the writing, recording or touring for the next Donnas album." In March 2007, the Donnas released a single, "Don't Wait Up For Me," and had a new band logo designed. The Donnas independently released their seventh studio album titled '' Bitchin''' on September 18, 2007 Purple Feather Records label. ''Bitchin was produced by Jay Ruston and The Donnas and contained the single "Don't Wait Up For Me". In 2008, the Donnas toured with the
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as part of their Skin and Bones tour. They also toured the U.S. and Canada with
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. In July 2009, the band released a retrospective collection titled '' Greatest Hits Vol. 16'' to celebrate the band's 16th year together. The album contained new songs, re-recorded older songs as well as some unreleased material. The band toured that summer with
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and Blondie on the two's joint Call Me Invincible Tour. Drummer
Torry Castellano Torrance Heather Castellano (born January 8, 1979) is an American attorney and the former drummer of The Donnas. She announced her retirement from drumming in July 2010. About Castellano was born in San Francisco, California. She met future ...
was unable to play on any of these tour dates as she was suffering from tendonitis of the shoulder, which was accredited to the fact that as a self-taught drummer she had held the drumsticks incorrectly (even though it felt right to her) and sustained long term damage over time. Long-time friend Amy Cesari of the Demonics has been chosen to fill in for Castellano. On July 9, 2010, Castellano announced via the band's website that due to her continued shoulder problems she would have to retire from drumming and performing with the Donnas. She returned to school at
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and then
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, where she graduated in 2013 and went on to
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. She is currently an attorney working at the Texas Office of Capital and Forensic Writs (OCFW) which serves as a post-conviction public defender. In August 2012, the band was reported to be recording their eighth studio album and also premiered a new song called "Tramp" at a private show. In November 2016
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re-released the band's fifth album, '' Spend the Night'', to include six bonus tracks which consist of B-sides and songs from previous albums. In an interview from 2017, the band's lead vocalist, Brett Anderson, discussed "the end of the band" and turning down offers to "reunite," implicitly confirming the band is no more. In the same interview, she also mentions that there are no plans to release previously-unreleased studio-recorded songs. In April 2023, for
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, the band released a compilation of earlier material entitled ''The Donnas - Early Singles 1995-1999''.


Band members

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Brett Anderson Brett Lewis Anderson (born 29 September 1967) is an English singer best known as the lead singer and primary lyricist of the band Suede. After Suede disbanded in 2003, he fronted the Tears with former Suede guitarist Bernard Butler in 2004â ...
– lead vocals, piano (1993–2012) * Allison Robertson – guitars, backing vocals (1993–2012) *
Maya Ford Maya Anne Ford (born January 8, 1979, in Oakland, California) is an American musician and the former bass player of rock band The Donnas. She also goes by the name Donna F. Early life Maya Anne Ford, was born on January 8, 1979, in Oakland, C ...
– bass, backing vocals (1993–2012) *
Torry Castellano Torrance Heather Castellano (born January 8, 1979) is an American attorney and the former drummer of The Donnas. She announced her retirement from drumming in July 2010. About Castellano was born in San Francisco, California. She met future ...
– drums, backing vocals (1993–2009) * Amy Cesari – drums, backing vocals (2009–2012) Timeline


Discography

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The Donnas The Donnas were an American rock band formed in Palo Alto, California, in 1993. The band consisted of Brett Anderson (lead vocals), Allison Robertson (guitar, backing vocals), Maya Ford (bass guitar, backing vocals) and Torry Castellano (dr ...
'' (1997) *'' American Teenage Rock 'n' Roll Machine'' (1998) *''
Get Skintight ''Get Skintight'' is the third studio album by the United States, American rock band The Donnas, released in 1999 (See 1999 in music) on Lookout!. As of 2005 it has sold 58,000 units in United States according to Nielsen SoundScan. Track listi ...
'' (1999) *'' The Donnas Turn 21'' (2001) *'' Spend the Night'' (2002) *''
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'' (2004) *'' Bitchin''' (2007)


See also

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List of bands from the San Francisco Bay Area This is a list of bands from the San Francisco Bay Area, music groups founded in the San Francisco Bay Area or were closely associated with the region for a significant part of the group's active existence. Individual musicians who formed bands ...


References


External links


TheDonnas.com
Official website)
The Donnas' Facebook pageThe Donnas on Twitter
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