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Birth name | Melinda Antoinette Gaspar |
Born | Dayton, Ohio, United States | August 19, 1980
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Years active | 2000–present |
Website | www |
Mindy Jones is an American singer-songwriter from Los Angeles, California and is currently the lead singer for recording artist Moby. Her collaborations with him include co-writing the track "The Waste of Suns" on the album Everything Was Beautiful, and Nothing Hurt , a cover of "The Big Dream" by American director David Lynch for the album Innocents , a live version of "Go" at a benefit concert for the David Lynch foundation, [1] and his last two albums, played during his most recent tour at the Fonda and Ace theatres in downtown Los Angeles. [2]
She is currently working on a new project called ADLT VDEO with Luke Top of Fool's Gold. [3]
In addition to Blindspot, her songs have also been featured in Pretty Little Liars , Hot Girls Wanted , Hemlock Grove , Timeless , Stitchers , the Super Bowl commercial for Independence Day: Resurgence , Scream and many more.
In 2021, she covered Bjarke Niemann's "Champions of the Wild Side" [4] for the launch trailer of Hitman 3 . [5] The same year, she sang the cover of David Bowie's Heroes on Moby's album Reprise, released by Deutsche Grammophon.
David Keith Lynch is an American filmmaker, visual artist, and musician. He has received critical acclaim for his films, which are often distinguished by their surrealist, dreamlike qualities.
Richard Melville Hall, known professionally as Moby, is an American musician, songwriter, record producer, DJ and animal rights activist. He has sold 20 million records worldwide. AllMusic considers him to be "among the most important dance music figures of the early 1990s, helping bring dance music to a mainstream audience both in the United States and the United Kingdom".
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Julee Ann Cruise was an American singer and actress, known for her collaborations with composer Angelo Badalamenti and film director David Lynch in the late 1980s and early 1990s. She released four albums beginning with 1989's Floating into the Night.
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Rebekah Del Rio is an American singer/songwriter and actress from Chula Vista, California.
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Luke Top is a singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, record producer, and composer based in Los Angeles. He was the lead singer/bassist and one of the founding members of the afro-pop band Fool's Gold, who released 3 albums on the Iamsound label and performed both domestically and internationally, including appearances at the Glastonbury Festival, Hollywood Bowl, and Reading. In 2017 he joined as a touring member of the band Electric Guest. He also collaborates with Moby singer Mindy Jones in the ADLT VDEO project. His solo album "Suspect Highs" was released by Org Music in 2016 and followed by "The Dumb-Show" EP in 2018.