Carla Bozulich is best known as the singer from LA-based band Gerladine Fibbers and as the woman who re-made Willie Nelson’s Red Headed Stranger - with Willie Nelson as a special guest. Carla has on of the most unique voices in any genre. Her work is at once brutally raw and weirdly visionary.
Born in New York City, she grew up a tomboy and girl protector in San Pedro, CA. Carla’s first appearance on record is Gary Kail’s album from 1982 called Zurich 1916, on which she does dada-inspired worldplay, you know, telephone and vacuum cleaner stuff. She sang in a couple of groupsthe Neon Veins, and Invisible Chains, the latter of which recorded an album for The Minutemen’s New Alliance when Carla was 18 years old.
Carla disappeared from daylight for a few years, re-emerged, and was soon causing traffic jams as the gamine howler in the confrontational sex/sound assault outfit Ethyl Meatplow.
In 1993, before Ethyl’s last gasp, Carla founded The
Geraldine Fibbers, going on to record and tour incessantly with that band until 1998. Scarnella followed, a duo formed with Nels Cline, and a decidedly uncommercial, open, experimental project.
In 2001 she scored a Los Angeles production of Jean Genet’s. The Maids and the award-winning feature film By Hook Or By Crook, which she scored and for which she compiled the soundtrack, went to Sundance in 2003. That same year saw the release of Carla’s new rendition of Willie Nelson’s Red Headed Stranger. She has also explored mixed media and performance art, including a commission for The Getty Museum in Los Angeles. 2006 sees Carla releasing an incredible new album on Montreal label Constellation Records and touring with the epic across Europe.