Josephine Wiggs

Quick Facts

Full Name	Josephine Wiggs
Occupation	Musician
Date Of Birth	Feb 26, 1963(1963-02-26)
Age	61
Birthplace	Letchworth
Country	United Kingdom
Birth City	England
Horoscope	Aquarius

Josephine Wiggs Biography

Josephine Wiggs is one of the most popular and richest Musician who was born on February 26, 1963 in Letchworth, England, United Kingdom. Miranda Cordelia Susan Josephine Wiggs (born 26 February 1963) is an English multi-instrumentalist rock musician, best known for her work as bassist in the alternative rock bands The Breeders and The Perfect Disaster. She has also been involved in a number of separate projects which include her own band Honey Tongue, The Josephine Wiggs Experience as well as Dusty Trails.

In 1992, along with Deal along with Wiggs, The Breeders’ second version featured Kim’s sibling Kelley Deal on lead guitar and Jim Macpherson on drums. The group created the debut album Last Splash in 1993, featuring the smash hit track “Cannonball”, which opens with Wiggs iconic first bass line. The music video of “Cannonball”, much-played on MTV was directed by Kim Gordon and Spike Jonze. The Breeders played with Nirvana during the In Utero tour, and Last Splash achieved platinum sales.

In 1995, Wiggs recorded and co-produced the album Klassics with a K for the Kostars, Luscious Jackson’s Jill Cunniff and Vivian Trimble, and toured with them playing drums. In 1996 Wiggs collaborated again with Jon Mattock releasing the Bon Bon Lifestyle album on Grand Royal as The Josephine Wiggs Experience. Wiggs played all instruments, recorded and mixed the album.

In 1997, Wiggs started a writing and recording collaboration with Luscious Jackson keyboardist Vivian Trimble under the name Dusty Trails. Their eponymous 2000 album on Atlantic Records included a track written for, and sung by, Emmylou Harris. They also wrote music for Happy Accidents, a movie by Brad Anderson (writer/director of Next Stop Wonderland) starring Marisa Tomei and Vincent D’Onofrio. In addition, they collaborated with internationally acclaimed New York-based Brazilian choreographers chameckilerner, writing and recording full-length scores for Poor Reality, 2001, and Exit 2007. They also provided the soundtrack for chameckilerner’s short film Flying Lesson, (which premiered at Lincoln Center, 2008) and for their short film The Collection (2011).

in 1992 Wiggs worked in 1992 with Jon Mattock and released an album, Nude Nudes, under the name Honey Tongue. In 1995, Wiggs along with Luscious Michael (and the original Beastie Boys) drummer Kate Schellenbach formed Ladies Who Lunch, releasing the 7-inch vinyl “Kims We Love” (an an homage the late Kim Deal and Sonic Youth’s Kim Gordon, played entirely by Casio keyboards) on the Beastie Boys’ label, Grand Royal. The album was then followed by the 7-inch vinyl version of the Buzzcocks song Everybody’s happy Nowadays.

Josephine Wiggs Net Worth

Josephine Wiggs is one of the richest Musician from United Kingdom. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Josephine Wiggs 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

in 1988 Wiggs was introduced to Kim Deal at the time that Perfect Disaster supported the Pixies in London. It was 1989 when Deal was able to convince Wiggs to be a part of her as well as Tanya Donelly (of Throwing Muses) in recording The Breeders first album Pod. Deal, Wiggs and Slint drummer Britt Walford were in rehearsal for the duration of a week in Wiggs’s house in Bedfordshire and then for a week together with Donelly in London and then drove up to Edinburgh in order to make the recording with producer Steve Albini. The album debuted in 1990 by the labels like 4AD. The album was released in 1992. Deal went to see Wiggs in Brighton in her absence from the Pixies and they collaborated on the track “Safari”, recording it in London along with Wiggs’s Spacemen/Spiritualized drummer Jon Mattock. This song became the title track on The Breeders’ second release which was the Safari EP.

Wiggs has the name of her father Richard Wiggs, a teacher of disabled children and the creator of the Anti-Concorde Project. Wiggs pursued a degree in Philosophy in the University of London, earning an BA degree. She went further to obtain the MA with an emphasis on Continental Philosophy from the University of Sussex. She was a cellist for 10 years. They was a part of The Perfect Disaster in 1988 as bass guitarist. She played in the album Asylum Road, (1988) Up (1989) and Heaven Scent (1990) prior to joining The Breeders with Kim Deal and Tanya Donelly in 1990. Wiggs performed cello in her appearance on the Spacemen 3 album Playing With Fire.

According to a 1994 Rolling Stone profile of The Breeders, Wiggs is a lifelong vegan who’s never eaten a piece of meat in her life.

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