Susanna Hoffs Biography, Age, Early Life, The Bangles, Husband, Songs, Net Worth

Susanna Hoffs Biography

Susanna Hoffs is best known as the lead singer and guitarist with the well-known pop group the Bangles, but Hoffs has also enjoyed an impressive career as a solo artist and a collaborator with a wide range of artists.

Susanna Hoffs Age

Hoffs was born Susanna Lee Hoffs born January 17, 1959, in Los Angeles, California, in the USA to a Jewish family. She is the daughter of film director/writer/producer Tamar Ruth and Joshua Allen Hoffs, a psychoanalyst.

Susanna Hoffs Early Life

Her mother played Beatles music for Hoffs when she was a child, and she began playing the guitar in her teens. Hoffs attended Palisades High School in Pacific Palisades, Los Angeles, graduating in 1976. While in college she worked as a production assistant and made her acting debut in the 1978 film Stony Island.

In 1980, Hoffs graduated from the University of California, Berkeley with a bachelor’s degree in art. When she entered Berkeley, she was a fan of classic rock bands that played in large stadiums.

While a student at Berkeley, she attended the final Sex Pistols show at Winterland Ballroom and a Patti Smith concert. Exposure to punk rock changed her career goal from a dancer to musician in a band.

She eventually joined Vicki Peterson and Debbi Peterson in what would later become the pop music group The Bangles.

Susanna Hoffs Career

Inspired by The Ramones and other punk bands, Hoffs founded The Bangs with Debbi Peterson and Vicki Peterson. After recording their first album, the night before it was to be printed, they learned of a legal claim by an East Coast boy band requiring a sudden change of name.

The Bangles

In 1986, Hoffs co-wrote “I Need a Disguise” for the album Belinda for Belinda Carlisle, from the all-girl group The Go-Gos. With increasing fame, He also appeared on the covers of numerous magazines, and the Rickenbacker guitar company issued a Susanna Hoffs model of the 350, which she customized herself.

In 1987, Hoffs starred in the film The Allnighter, which was directed by her mother Tamar Simon Hoffs, and also featured Joan Cusack and Pam Grier.

The film was critically panned and failed at the box office. Hoffs later said: “It wasn’t a great movie but the whole experience of it was great.”

In 1988, The Bangles released their third album, Everything. The first single, co-written by Hoffs, “In Your Room” became a top 10 hit. Everything also produced their biggest-selling single “Eternal Flame”, which was also co-written and sung by Hoffs.

In the BBC programme “I’m in a Girl Group”, Hoffs revealed she actually sang the studio recording of “Eternal Flame” completely naked due to the producer Davitt Sigerson pranking her by telling her Olivia Newton-John had done the same thing. He later told Hoffs he had been lying the whole time.

In 1989, The Bangles formally disbanded. In the late 1990s, however, Hoffs contacted the other members of The Bangles with the hope of reuniting.

They recorded the single “Get the Girl” for the second Austin Powers movie in 1999. Subsequently, they announced their decision to reunite full-time in 2000. Their fourth album, Doll Revolution, was released in 2003.

Susanna Hoffs Solo Career

Hoffs released a solo album, When You’re a Boy, in 1991, which spawned a U.S Top 40 hit with “My Side of the Bed.” In the UK the single landed at #44, for only 4 weeks on chart, and the album also landed decently in Europe.

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Hoffs recorded another album in 1993-94, prior to leaving Columbia Records, but it went unreleased. In 1996, Hoffs released her second solo album, Susanna Hoffs.

Although it received much praise in the media and yielded a minor US hit and a UK hit at #33 for 2 weeks with a cover of the Lightning Seeds single “All I Want”, it still was not a big commercial success.

In December 2011, Hoffs provided an original song for use in promoting Visit South Walton, the tourism promotion agency for Walton County, Florida. The song, “This is the Place”, will be used in advertising and marketing the popular coastal area that comprises fifteen beach communities.

Hoffs self-released her third solo album of new material called Someday via Vanguard Records on July 17, 2012. The set was produced by Mitchell Froom and is influenced by the music of the 1960s.

American Songwriter gave Someday a rating of 4.5 out of 5 stars and described it as “easily and undeniably Hoffs’ most definitive musical statement to date.”

Hoffs donated her vocal talent to the end credits song from the film, A Dog Named Gucci, in the song One Voice, which also features the talents of Norah Jones, Aimee Mann.

Lydia Loveless, Neko Case, Brian May and Kathryn Calder. It was produced by Dean Falcone, who also wrote the film’s score. One Voice was released on Record Store Day, April 16, 2016, with profits from the sale of the single going to benefit animal charities.

Ming Tea

Mike Myers, Matthew Sweet, and Hoffs formed the faux British 1960s band Ming Tea after Myers’ Saturday Night Live stint in the early 1990s. They all adopted pseudonyms for the band, with Hoffs using the name Gillian Shagwell and Myers creating Austin Powers.

This group made a number of club and television performances and had a minor hit with the song “BBC”. Myers’s then-wife Robin Ruzan encouraged him to write a film based on the character.

The result was Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery, directed by Hoffs’ husband Jay Roach. Ming Tea performed in all three Austin Powers films.

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Sid n Susie

In 2006, Hoffs teamed up with fellow Ming Tea rocker Matthew Sweet; under the name “Sid n Susie”, they recorded fifteen cover versions of classic rock songs from the 1960s and 1970s for an album titled Under the Covers, Vol. 1.

The album was released on April 2006. On July 18, they appeared on Late Night with Conan O’Brien to promote the album and tour. The duo released another album Under the Covers, Vol. 2 on July 21, 2009, which included covers of songs by Fleetwood Mac, Carly Simon, Rod Stewart and others. In 2012 Under the Covers, Vol. 3 was released.

In 2013, Hoffs collaborated with Sweet and Tim Robbins for a cover of the traditional “Marianne” for the Sea shanty-compilation Son of Rogues Gallery: Pirate Ballads, Sea Songs & Chanteys.

Susanna Hoffs Personal Life

Husband|Sons

Sussana Hoffs married Jay Roach in 1993. Jay is the one who later directed the Austin Powers trilogy, Meet the Parents and Meet the Fockers. In 1995, Hoffs faded from the music scene and took time out to have a baby with her husband. The couple has two sons.

Hoffs had a second child in 1998 and subsequently reunited with the other members of the Bangles, playing a series of live dates and recording a new studio album in 2003.

She has also maintained a low-key acting career, appearing in a number of movies written and directed by her mother Tamar Simon Hoffs, and brief cameos in the first two Austin Powers movies.

Susanna Hoffs Net Worth

Susanna Hoffs is an American musician and actress who has a net worth of $10 million dollars. Hoffs is best known for being a member of The Bangles. She has been active in the entertainment industry since 1981 and is fluent in guitar and vocals.

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Susanna Hoffs Twitter

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— Susanna Hoffs (@SusannaHoffs) July 23, 2019

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