Lucia Cifarelli

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Lucia Cifarelli
KGC, Schwein

Lucia Cifarelli (born September 23, 1970) is an American singer, best known for her work with

KGC, and Schwein
.

Career

Cifarelli got her start recording in studios in New York, eventually forming her own band,

one self-titled album, spawning two music videos and getting a third song featured in the movie Empire Records. Later in 1995, Drill opened for Stabbing Westward
's Wither, Blister, Burn, and Peel Tour. The band broke up shortly after the end of the tour.

Cifarelli joined the KMFDM-hiatus band MDFMK in 2000. The project lasted for one self-titled album. In 2001, Cifarelli and

Dirty Bomb
.

Personal life

Lucia Cifarelli was born on September 23, 1970, in

The Scissor Sisters
. Through an extensive network of songwriting collaborators, Cifarelli honed her songwriting chops in New York City by night, while attending high school by day.

Travers would later introduce Cifarelli to music producer Ric Wake, who signed her band Drill to A&M Records.

Due to a label restructuring, the band was dropped upon delivery of their sophomore effort and later broke up. Not long after Cifarelli joined MDFMK, an offshoot of KMFDM, where she co-wrote, recorded and toured with the band for their only album on Republic Records.

Before the reformation of KMFDM, Cifarelli secured a record deal with

Universal Records and moved to London to record her first solo album From the Land of Volcanos with music producer Ian Stanley, one of the original members of Tears for Fears
. Universal later declined to release it.

Since the reformation of KMFDM, Cifarelli has been a featured vocalist and co-writer on every album since 2002 and has played 456 shows with the band as of January 2020.

In November 2019, Cifarelli began writing her long overdue follow-up solo album. On July 2, 2021, she released the album I Am Eye.[2][3]

In July 2005, she married KMFDM founder and producer

Hamburg, Germany, her husband's hometown. The couple has one daughter (Annabella Asia Konietzko, born February 14, 2008).[4]

Discography

Cifarelli with KMFDM in 2009

KMFDM

Solo

Other

References

  1. ^ Rivadavia, Eduardo. "Biography: Drill". AllMusic. Retrieved May 25, 2010.
  2. ^ "I Am Eye, by Lucia Cifarelli".
  3. ^ "Lucia Cifarelli Official Website". March 26, 2021. Retrieved March 26, 2021.
  4. ^ "KMFDM: Family Matters". September 7, 2012. Retrieved December 19, 2017.

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