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Pearl Aday |
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American |
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Singing |
Pearl Aday is an American female singer and adopted daughter of Meat Loaf and his wife Leslie G. Edmonds Aday. Pearl, whose biological father was the drummer for Janis Joplin’s band, Full Tilt Boogie, was adopted by Meat Loaf after he married her mother. She toured as a backing singer in Meat Loaf's touring band for nine years, Neverland Express. She has appeared on numerous albums and in various tours and television performances with her father, both as backing singer and in a duet. She has also been a backing singer for Motley Crue. She is currently the lead singer of her own band "Pearl" and has released her debut album on Megaforce/RED/Sony Music on January 19, 2010. Pearl has a half sister named Amanda Aday by her mother's side of the family.
Aday went to Emerson College in Boston, Massachusetts, majoring in creative writing, but shortly thereafter began a music career.
In 1994, she was a backing singer for Meat Loaf's 1994 Bat out of Hell II summer tour, as well as the follow-up tour in 1996, Born to Rock. She was a member of her father's backing band when they performed at the inaugural ball in 1997 for Bill Clinton. She became a full-fledged member of Neverland Express, Meat Loaf's touring band, from 1998-2003. In 2003, she sang on Meat Loaf's album Couldn't Have Said It Better on the duet "Man of Steel." Pearl supported Meat Loaf for an Oct 31, 2007 concert on his Seize the Night tour.
She was portrayed in the 2000 TV movie To Hell and Back by Elisabeth Lund.
She was featured on an album by the band Filter and was a backup singer for Mötley Crüe on their "Maximum Rock" tour, featured on the DVD release of the tour, "Lewd, Crued, and Tattooed." She was also with a Los Angeles-based band named Stella, fronted by Nancy Hower (Star Trek: Voyager), which broke up before releasing an album. She currently releases music with Pearl, a band in which she is the lead singer. The other musicians in the band are Mother Superior, best known for their work in The Rollins Band with Henry Rollins.
Aday is married to Anthrax guitarist Scott Ian. Her photographs appeared on Music of Mass Destruction: Live from Chicago released by Anthrax in 2004.
