Roxanne Fontana

Quick Facts

Full Name	Roxanne Fontana
Occupation	Singer-Songwriter
Date Of Birth	Sep 2, 1959(1959-09-02)
Age	65
Birthplace	Brooklyn
Country	United States
Birth City	New York
Horoscope	Virgo

Roxanne Fontana Biography

Roxanne Fontana is one of the most popular and richest Singer- Songwriter who was born on September 2, 1959 in Brooklyn, New York, United States. Fontana was pregnant in Los Angeles when she founded her jewellery design business “Chanson de Tangier.” It consisted only of beaded chokers for men and women. Her favourite fashion icon, Brian Jones, inspired the designs. These pieces were made from antique and vintage beads. Fontana would mix trade beads from Italy in the 1700s with sterling silver and African beads that are over 1000 years old. These pieces were sold in Los Angeles’ top boutiques such as Lorenzo’s at Sunset Plaza Drive and Kitson on Robertson Boulevard. There are many other shops, from West Hollywood to Venice, that sell them. She began making pendants with black Czech Glass and Miriam Haskell beads in the 1920s before she became an expat.

Fontana and Jack Douglas went to New York in August 2015 to record “Time Won’t Wait”. Fontana revealed to DJ Steve Dima, formerly DJ Pledge from East Village Radio, that the song was written on the night of 8/12/80, just before John Lennon’s death. Her goal was to record the song together with Douglas, Lenon’s producer. Douglas had been working with Fontana on Lenon’s final recordings, including the night he died. The song will be released globally on the 35th anniversary of the song’s conception as well as Lennon’s murder.

Fontana began her music career at New York City nightclubs during the 1980s. This included multiple performances at CBGB, The Bitter End, and Webster Hall, among many others. Fontana’s bands The Blue Way, Kid Blue, and Ruzenka and the Big Dream, were male rock groups that Fontana dominated by writing all of the material, and fronting. She also performed under her name Roseann Fontana for a number of shows, from acoustic shows to fronting bands as a solo artist. Fontana recorded unreleased material until her first release in 1999. The unreleased material included a popular Fontana song called, “Lifetrap” which was mixed by Ivan Kral during Iggy Pop recording Sessions for the album Party. Kral also added synthesizer and keyboards to the track. The song was re- recorded in London in 2019.

American Girl is the memoir penned by Roxanne Fontana about her life up to and including the recording of her Love Is Blue album. The book specifically ends when she meets her husband Mat Treiber, and includes the story of Fontana’s fascinating life as a single woman getting discovered in the music business, her spiritual journeys, childhood street fights, and many travels and love affairs. Fontana also chronicled her lifestyle as a marijuana dealer to support her artistic ventures in the 1990s. Fontana is planning “Part Deux” in the future to share her adventures since the ending of the last book. American Girl has been met with rave reviews in its ebook form since its release in 2012 and is planning a re-release in print new edit for 2015. Reviewer Keri English remarked about the book, “I found myself unable to stop reading at points […] Even as she discovers horrible things about the men she chooses to let in her life, she overcomes a great deal. In matters of faith, life and love, hope is never quite lost.” The book also includes a detailed description of her one night stand in a Long Island hotel with rocker Tom Petty in 1978. Her introduction of Tom Petty winning over a night club crowd in New York City in 1977, through to meeting him, and her subsequent resentment is a story in itself.

Fontana was born on September 16, 1981 in Brooklyn, New York. Her parents were working-class Italian-Americans who hailed from Brooklyn’s Bedford Stuyvesant slums. Fontana grew up in Brooklyn’s 1960s, just blocks from Arthur Miller’s childhood home. This was in the predominantly Jewish and Italian neighborhood of Brooklyn that borders Midwood and Bensonhurst. After a try-out as a child model in the Lexington Avenue agency in New York City, Fontana discovered a passion for fashion design. Fontana learned songwriting, guitar playing and singing while living in Elmont on Long Island, USA, in the 1970s. Fontana was an avid music lover and ran an international Rolling Stone Brian Jones fan club, which was officially acknowledged by the Rolling Stones in the late 1970s.

Roxanne Fontana Net Worth

Roxanne Fontana is one of the richest Singer-Songwriter from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Roxanne Fontana 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Roxanne Fontana, born Roseann Fontana on September 2, 1959, is an author, singer, songwriter and musician from the dual-national Italian American nation. She is also an actress and clothing and jewelry designer.

Fontana released a folk-rock album the following year, which was closer to her preferred music style, orchestrated folk-rock from the mid-1960s. Gordon Raphael (producer of the Strokes) recorded the album in Fontana’s Transporterraum Studios, New York City’s East Village. He also played on all the tracks. Marty Willson-Piper was also featured on the album. Joe Viglione, a critic, said that Fontana did a great job producing the album and that it was a departure from her debut disc.

In the early 1980s Fontana relocated to Los Angeles, which she has made her home at various times in her life since. Roxanne played the club circuit of Los Angeles in the early 1980s. In the mid-1980s Fontana travelled on her own to Europe and lived two summers in the Netherlands, recording with a local rock band in Arnhem on the border of northern Germany. Fontana returned home seeking to release the recorded music, which went unreleased for decades.

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In January 2001, at age 41, Fontana married 21-year-old Montreal-born guitarist singer-songwriter Mat Treiber, at the Neighborhood Church on Bleecker Street in New York City’s Greenwich Village. Roxanne gave birth to a daughter at Cedars Sinai Hospital in Beverly Hills, California, on December 24, 2002. The family left the US for Italy in 2006, and have made their home in England for many years.

Facts & Trivia

Roxanne Ranked on the list of most popular Singer-Songwriter. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Roxanne Fontana celebrates birthday on September 2 of every year.

“America – Whore of Babylon –Mars Mars Mars” is a poem written by Fontana in Italy, immediately after becoming an ex-pat of the US in 2006. It was published in the poetry compilation, Ava Gardner – Touches of Venus in 2007, alongside pieces by Margaret Atwood and Robert Graves, after the editor discovered her poem on her website. Critic James Srodes said of the book, “To read through this book is to realize that more than the saccharine lyrics sung to Marilyn, Ava was both a frame of reference and an inspiration for young women and young men both in their lives and in their muse. How she would have laughed.”