However, she and the label could not agree on the music she made. Recording under the pseudonym "Porcelain and the Tramps", Black worked with Tommy Henriksen and John Lowery in London while at Virgin. Three months later, she did so, found her manager, and was signed to Virgin Records two weeks later. While on a road trip in New York, Black was approached by her first manager, who told her to move to Los Angeles. She also considered becoming a backup dancer.
Her father died when she was sixteen.īlack had taken part in national competitive dancing, taking jazz, hip-hop, tap, and ballet lessons, since she was young, and, at one point, was training to perform on Broadway. Having lived in less affluent areas prior to the move, Black found that she did not fit in with her privileged classmates, becoming an outcast. Until the age of sixteen, when she was legally able to drop out, she feigned homeschooling. At age fifteen, she was expelled for fighting and attended Rochester High School where she was also soon expelled, for the same reason. After her mother remarried, they moved from Royal Oak and settled in Rochester where she attended high school at Bishop Foley Catholic High School. Her parents separated when she was six years old. He owned a hair salon and brought her along to fashion shows and photoshoots. Her mother is of Polish descent and her father is Scottish-Albanian. Her mother is an accountant her father was a hairstylist. Life and career Early life and career beginnings īlack grew up in and spent most of her life in various parts of Metro Detroit, Michigan. 1.5 2020–present: Independent full-length debut album.Vocally compared to Courtney Love, Porcelain Black was approached to record backing vocals for Love's 2008 album. She considers her music the "love child" of Marilyn Manson and Britney Spears. She is best known for her guttural vocals and two-toned hair. Musically, she fuses industrial themes with pop music conventions such as electronic synths and a heavy reliance upon hooks. She made her first televised appearance on the Late Show with David Letterman, performing "This Is What Rock n' Roll Looks Like". After the release of her first single, Lil Wayne invited her on the second half of his I Am Music Tour as an opening act. "One Woman Army" was a top-forty hit in France, Spain, and Wallonia, outselling all of her previous singles in France and becoming her first number-one hit on that country's iTunes chart. The first two songs charted on the Billboard Hot Dance Club Songs chart. As a solo act, she has released three singles, " This Is What Rock n' Roll Looks Like", "Naughty Naughty", and " One Woman Army", the first featuring guest vocals from Lil Wayne. As a songwriter, she is credited on songs performed by One Direction, Orianthi, The Used and Mexican pop singer Belinda, among others. She appeared in the music video for Jack White's " Freedom at 21". After many internal problems between the artist and record producer RedOne, Porcelain Black announced the partnership had come to an end, with anticipation of releasing her debut album in the vein of her Porcelain and the Tramps project in 2015. After three years of trying to get out of the contract, she signed with RedOne's Universal Republic imprint, 2101 Records, late in 2009, and began working on her debut album. Her music was posted to her Myspace account, "rockcitynosebleed", where she gained millions of hits. However, Black and Virgin could not agree on the music she would record. At age 16, she embarked on her music career as a solo act under the name Porcelain and the Tramps with Virgin Records. Alaina Marie Beaton (born October 1, 1985), known professionally as Porcelain Black, is an American singer-songwriter, rapper, and model.
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