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Meredith Brooks is an alternative rock artist from Oregon City, Oregon, USA formed in 1989. 10 releases are catalogued on Riffiter.
Alternative Rock · Oregon City, Oregon, USA · Best alternative rock albums
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Blurring the Edges
1997
Meredith Ann Brooks (born June 12, 1958) is an American singer/songwriter and guitarist. She is best known for her 1997 hit song "Bitch", for which she was nominated for a Grammy Award. Meredith Brooks was born in Corvallis, Oregon. Her parents divorced while she was still a child. She and her brother and sister grew up in Corvallis, Oregon and were raised by their mother. At age eleven, Brooks became fascinated with the guitar and she soon learned how to play it. Career Beginnings; See It Through My Eyes (1984) and The Graces (1989) In 1976 Brooks and a drummer named Patti Drapela started an a local all-girl rock band called Sapphire and was lead singer and guitarist from 1977 to 1981, playing at community colleges, private parties and the Oregon State Fair as well as clubs in Portland, Salem, Eugene, and in her hometown of Corvallis. Brooks left the band in the late 1980s and performed solo at a number of clubs in the Willamette Valley of Oregon and in Washington, where she was popular among a broad range of fans. She often performed at the Last Hurrah and Eli's Hard Rock Cafe in Portland. She was managed by Denny Herman of Pacific Talent, who was also her boyfriend at the tim…
