Jessica Delfino
Jessica Delfino | |
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Background information | |
Born | Bridgeport, Connecticut | June 8, 1976
Genres | Folk rock Alternative rock Indie rock Pop rock Comedy |
Occupation(s) | Singer-songwriter comedian |
Instrument(s) | Vocals, guitar, flying v ukulele, rape whistle |
Years active | 2001–present |
Labels | Loudmouth Records |
Jessica Delfino (born June 8, 1976, in
Music and Performance
Jessica Delfino's first CD, Dirty Folk Rock came out in 2004 on the Soundcakes International label. It received excellent reviews all across the United States, including in Jane Magazine, High Times (Best "unsigned" Act of The Week),[6] Arthur Magazine (in a fawning review by Sonic Youth's Thurston Moore)[7] and The Onion (describing her as "Redd Foxx meets Jewel").
Delfino's second CD, I Wanna Be Famous, came out in June 2008 on the Loudmouth Records label, and was officially the first CD ever to be released by that label. It has received praise from Time Out New York,[8] Time Out London, and Blender Magazine's Rob Tannenbaum, who described Delfino as "The Joan Baez of the Vagina Song." Animator Nick Fox-Gieg's video for the title cut of the song, I Wanna Be Famous, has been viewed more than one million times on YouTube.[9]
She has appeared on
Delfino, together with
Delfino is also known for performing as various unusual characters, including "Bilge Baron" in her histrionic fear-metal band Haunted Pussy[14] and "T-Top Trans-Am"[3] (her white-trash burlesque act) amongst many others, some of which appear in "Skits N Tits" the monthly sketch comedy show she co-produces in NYC with Diane O'Debra Langan and Steph Sabelli.
New York Annual Funny Songs Festival
In June 2012, Jessica Delfino organized the First Annual Funny Songs Festival in New York City,[15] "a four-day event that bills itself as the city's first comedy music festival,"[16] featuring performers including Rob Paravonian, Jen Kwok, Ben Lerman, Soce the Elemental Wizard, Mindy Raf, Carolyn Castiglia, Myq Kaplan, Micah Sherman, and Jessica Delfino herself, among many others.[17] The festival is scheduled to occur from Thursday, June 7, 2012, through Sunday, June 10, 2012, in Manhattan's Lower East Side neighborhood, and Delfino and the festival were the subjects of feature articles in The New York Times, Time Out New York, and numerous other publications.[15][16]
Politics
Delfino managed the 2005 mayoral campaign of Christopher X. Brodeur, and she was featured in the 2009 documentary, The Promise of New York.[18]
Writing
Delfino wrote for MTV's game show, I Bet You Will.[19] Later, Morgan Spurlock hired her to write songs for his recent documentary film, What Would Jesus Buy?.
Delfino writes a blog
In 2016, Delfino wrote a weekly cannabis-themed Twitter round-up column for High Times called Toasted Tweets.
Through 2017–2020, she went on to write about parenting and cannabis for High Times and pen pieces about parenting for The Atlantic, Huffington Post, VH1, and The Week, and satire for McSweeney's Internet Tendencies, Working Mother, The New Yorker, and The New York Times.
She also was a contributor in the writer's room on Adult Swim's Mr. Punk Goes To Washington and for Bravo.
Controversy
On December 19, 2006,
On the day after Google announced its purchase of YouTube, YouTube removed a popular video of one of Delfino's songs, the subject of which was that her vagina was magic. On October 11, 2008, that same video was featured as the top pick on
Discography
Albums
- Dirty Folk Rock, 2004
- I Wanna Be Famous, 2008
Songs
- "My Pussy Is Magic"
- "I Wanna Be Famous"
- "Jewish Boys"[26]
References
- ^ "ECNY Awards" Archived March 3, 2016, at the Wayback Machine ecnyawards.com, 2005
- ^ "Best Potty-Mouthed, Guitar-Slinging Comedian – JESSY DELFINO" The Village Voice, 2005
- ^ a b c "The Vagina Dialogue" The Philly Edge, March 6, 2007
- ^ "nonsense nyc: 6.10 to 6.16" Archived September 30, 2007, at the Wayback Machine osdir.com, June 2005
- ^ "Meet 'The Bard' and Horny Judges at 'The Gong Show' at Arlene's Grocery" Archived June 24, 2008, at the Wayback Machine New York Press, March 7, 2008
- ^ "HIGH TIMES' UNSIGNED BAND OF THE WEEK" High Times Magazine,
- ^ "Arthur Issue #17" Archived September 27, 2007, at the Wayback Machine Arthur Magazine
- ^ "Minstrel Cramps" Time Out New York, June 12–18, 2008
- ^ "I Wanna Be Famous" YouTube Video
- ^ "Come for the comedy, stay for the birthday party/spankings" In The Flesh Erotic Reading Series, October 9, 2006
- ^ "The New York International Children's Film Festival" gkids.com
- ^ "Foul-Mouth Folk Singer's Album Pure Essence of Comedy" Archived September 28, 2007, at the Wayback Machine The Drexel Triangle, January 21, 2005
- ^ "Jessica Delfino" Archived September 12, 2008, at the Wayback Machine Time Out London
- ^ "Haunted Pussy" hauntedpssy.com
- ^ a b "The NY Funny Songs Festival" Time Out New York
- ^ a b "Oh, for the Sweet Music of Belly Laughs" The New York Times
- ^ "1ST ANNUAL NY FUNNY SONGS FEST 2012" nyfunnysongs.com
- ^ "Jessica Delfino" The Internet Movie Database
- ^ "I Bet You Will (2002)" imdb.com
- ^ "Jessy Delfino's Blog" jessydelfino.blogspot.com
- ^ "Slow Tempo In C" WIL WHEATON dot NET, September 17, 2003
- ^ "Christmas Season Marked by Obscenities" Catholic League Press Release, December 19, 2006
- ^ "NYC ARTIST RESPONDS TO CATHOLIC LEAGUE'S ATTACK" Jessica Delfino's Press release, December 21, 2006
- ^ "playboy.com" October 11, 2008
- ^ "'MY PUSSY IS MAGIC' BANNED BY YOUTUBE!!!" Jessy Delfino's Blog, October 11, 2006
- ^ "Jewish Boys" The Fump, December 16, 2014