Auf der maur, melissa

Melissa Auf der Maur was born in the family of a journalist and politician Nika Auf der Maura and literary translator Linda Geborio. She is of Swiss-Germanic origin. Since Nick Auf der Maur was a Canadian, and Linda Gaborio was born in Boston , USA , Melissa has both Canadian and American citizenship, as well as Swiss. (The surname Auf der Maur translates as On the wall , because die Mauer is a German word meaning Wall ). Melissa says that her grandmother, Theresia Schelin-Auf der Maur, “always drove her legacy into her head” ^[1] and was very proud of her last name, because she is on the verge of extinction.

Melissa's native language is English, but she also speaks French. In early childhood, she lived with her mother in Kenya for some time, but after several bouts of malaria, they returned to Montreal. There, Melissa attended FACE, a high school of performing arts, and then continued her studies at Concordia University , where she studied photography.

Hole

Auf der Maur made friends with Billy Corgan after she came backstage to him to apologize for a friend who threw a beer bottle into the group during their first performance in Canada , in 1991, at the Montreal nightclub Les Foufounes Électriques . ^[2] Later, in 1993, her band Tinker performed at Warm Up with Smashing Pumpkins on their next visit to Montreal . When Hole needed the bass player in 1994, after the death of Kristen Pfaff , Corgan recommended Courtney Love Melissa. At first, Auf der Maur rejected the offer, but later, convinced by her father and friends, she changed her mind. ^[3] She joined Hole two weeks before the Reading Festival , recorded the album Celebrity Skin (1998) with the group and left Hole on October 20, 1999, when her five-year contract expired.

In June 2009, Courtney Love announced on the NME blog that Hole resumes activity, with Auf der Maur on bass guitar and Miko Larkin on guitar on a future album. For Melissa herself, this came as a surprise, and she replied that “it’s not so easy to accept the reunion of Hole . It will take a bit more organizational moments than just saying: “I will come and sing on the backing vocals, and it will turn out Hole ”. ” ^[four]

However, in April 2012, Auf der Maur joined Hole to play the one and only concert in the 90s (including her, Courtney Love , Eric Erlandson and Patti Shemel) in New York during the documentary advertising campaign Shemel's hit hit hard . At first, Erlandson, Shemel and Auf der Maur played alone, then Love came on the stage and spontaneously sang the song Over the Edge .

The Smashing Pumpkins

After D'Arsy Retzky left Smashing Pumpkins in 2000, Auf der Maur joined the band as a bass guitar player. Singer Billy Corgan has known Melissa since her time in Tinker (the band played with Smashing Pumpkins in Montreal during their tour in support of the album Siamese Dream ), and they were pals. On Machina / The Machines of God and Machina II / The Friends & Enemies of Modern Music albums, Melissa didn’t play, but was part of a band during their tour in support of them. ^[five]

On February 2, 2006, MTV.com reported that Corgan and Jimmy Chamberlin resume Smashing Pumpkins activities. ^[6] In response, Auf der Maur said in an interview: "As long as Billy has Jimmy, I am sure that he can make a main record of Pumpkins ." When asked about her possible return to the group, Melissa replied that she was not involved in any plans for reunification, but added: “I am always at their service and ready to play my favorite songs. If D'Arsy cannot participate, I will always be happy to be second in line. ” ^[7] However, on April 23, 2007, the Canadian newspaper The Globe and Mail reported that Melissa Auf der Maur will not join the group.

Other collaborations

In 1997, Auf der Maur toured with The Cars' former frontman Rick Oazek for a while after taking part in the recording of his solo album Troublizing as a bass guitar player and backing vocalist .
In 2002 she sang a duet with the leader of the French group Indochine Nicolas Sirkis, the song Le grand secret , which was a huge success in France . Auf der Maur several times went on stage with a group to perform a song, and also starred in a music video for her . On February 22, 2002, she played an exclusive short acoustic concert, consisting of some of her solo songs, during the Indochine show in Paris .
Melissa participated as a bass player and backing vocalist on an album of childhood friend Rufus Wainwright Poses (song Evil Angel ) and starred in the 1998 music video for the song April Fools .

In 2008, she collaborated with Canadian musician Daniel Victor in his project Neverending White Lights , performing the song The World is Darker , which was released in March 2008.
She also contributed to the albums of such artists as Ryan Adams , Ben Lee, Idaho , The Stills and Fountains of Wayne ( backing vocals on Someone to Love from the album Traffic and Weather ).

Hand of Doom and The Chelsea

In 2002, Melissa Auf der Maur became the vocalist of the Hand of Doom cover band , performing Black Sabbath songs. The group played several concerts and released a “live” album .
In the same year, Melissa, drummer Samantha Maloney (also playing in Hole , as well as in Mötley Crüe and Peaches ), Paz Lenchantin (groups A Perfect Circle and Zwan ) and Radio Sloan ( Peaches , The Need ) came together to give a concert in Los Angeles under the name The Chelsea , borrowing the name from the famous Chelsea Hotel in New York , where Auf der Maur has lived for many years. The group performed original compositions and several cover versions. Later, Courtney Love called the band on a tour in support of her solo album, America's Sweetheart . Of the original lineup, only Samantha Maloney and Radio Sloan remained, and the band was later renamed The Courtney Love Band .

Solo Creativity

In 2004, Melissa’s first solo album, Auf der Maur , was released, the singles from which - Followed the Waves , Real a Lie and Taste You - got quite a wide rotation on rock radio stations. In the same year, she appeared on the CBC television show The Greatest Canadian as "lawyer" by David Suzuki . Melissa took part in the Love Metal tour in November 2004, in which the HIM group also participated, and in the Curiosa festival that same year. In 2004, she appeared on a warm-up during a Canadian rock musician Matthew Goode's tour called Put Out Your Lights and with The Offspring on the Splinter tour.
In 2006, Blender magazine included her on the list of the sexiest women of rock, along with Joan Jett , Liz Fair and Courtney Love .

In an interview in 2007, ^[8] Auf der Maur announced that she had finished work on her second album, with which a comic and a short concept film ^[9] will be released, and all this will be published in late 2009. The album will be released under the name MAdM, while the comic, the film and the album itself will be called Out of Our Minds (or OOOM for short ). ^[10] In August 2007, xMAdMx.com was launched , containing teasers for the project and a trailer for the film. In 2008, a duet with Glenn Danzig , Father's Grave ^[11] was recorded, and on November 11, 2008 an EP was released ... This Would Be Paradise (also containing The Key and Willing Enabler songs), which could be bought on the official website or on iTunes . ^[12] On November 9, 2009, Melissa released the first single from the upcoming album, Out of Our Minds , with the same name, on her website, and on January 12, 2010, there was an online premiere of the video for this song. ^[13]

The album was released in March 2010, and then Melissa announced that the short film Out of Our Minds will be shown in London on April 21. ^[14] In July 2010, Auf der Maur took part in a two-day heavy metal and hard rock festival called Heavy MTL , held in Jean-Drapo Park in Montreal . On October 4, 2010, Melissa presented the second clip from the album for the song Meet Me On The Dark Side on her website.

Melissa Auf der Maur is also a print photographer, without abandoning her initial passion, despite her success in music. As a student at Concordia University (in which only one course did not finish studying, having agreed to play in the Hole group), she specialized in self portraits . Her photographs were published in magazines such as Nylon , Bust , Mastermind , American Photo , etc. Her photographs were part of The Kids are Alright in Sotheby's in New York, along with photographs taken by Yelena Yemchuk. In 2001, Melissa prepared a solo exhibition called Channels . Basically there were pictures of the life of Auf der Maur on the road, with a recurring theme of television and photographs of television screens in hotel rooms (hence the name). The exhibition opened on September 9, 2001 at the Secret Gallery in Brooklyn , but after the events of September 11 it was closed. ^[15] A book with the same title was being prepared for publication, but it never saw the light of day.

Melissa is married to director Tony Stone (he also shot the film Out of Our Minds ). On October 19, 2011, she stated on her website that she was expecting her first child, and a little later that same week she gave birth to a daughter, named River. ^[sixteen]

Melissa and Tony live in the city of Hudson ( District of Columbia , New York , USA ) ^[17] , where they own a cultural center called Basilica Hudson . ^[18]

Solo Albums

• 2004 - Auf der Maur
• 2010 - Out of Our Minds

EP

• 2008 - ... This Would Be Paradise
• 2009 - OOOM

Singles

• 2004 - Followed the Waves
• 2004 - Real a Lie
• 2004 - Taste You
• 2009 - Out of Our Minds
• 2010 - Meet Me on the Dark Side

• 2010 - Out of Our Minds
• 2015 - Rammstein in Amerika

In addition to the short film Out of Our Minds, Melissa has starred in several films in bit parts. ^[nineteen]

Melissa twice, in 1999 and 2000, won the Gibson Music Award for Best Bass Player .
In January 2011, she received an award in the category Indie / Alternative Music / Hard Rock for the album Out of Our Minds at the Independent Music Awards . ^[20]

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