Jane Wiedlin was born in Wisconsin and moved to California’s infamous San Fernando Valley, home of Valley Girls, at age six. She was an avid music fan from that moment on, exposed to the greatest rock and pop songs of the 1960s by her older siblings. In high school she was enamored with the glitter rock scene ie David Bowie, Marc Bolan, etc. At the time glitter/glam rock was a small musical movement in the US with equal parts music, clothing and attitude.

Jane attended Los Angeles Trade Tech College, where she learned the nuts and bolts of the fashion industry, with the aspirations of becoming a designer. In 1976 she discovered the punk rock scene in nearby Hollywood. Most of the kids in the scene were former glitter rockers, the punk scene basically following that same format of music, clothing and attitude. It attracted rebels, misfits, malcontents and artists. Jane started designing punk clothes, learned to play guitar and started writing songs — something she could never have dreamed of as a girl. In 1978 she formed the Go-Go’s, and with their poppy punk sound, the band grew popular up and down the West Coast. In 1981 the Go-Go’s signed to indie label IRS Records, helmed by the legendary Miles Copeland. Against all odds, after a year of release, the album, Beauty and the Beat, went to #1 on the Billboard charts.

When the Go-Go’s disbanded in 1985, Jane started her solo career, recording five albums. The band reformed in the 90s and have been together ever since. Jane’s new autobiography, TMI, Memoirs of a Go-Go is out now, and a new album of protest song covers, called ¡I PROTEST! produced by Jane, is shortly to follow. Jane is a loudmouth activist, both for animals, women and politics. She spends her free time saving dogs, writing, reading and napping.