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USA Booking:
Alyssa Archambault
Total Talent Agency
Email or (323)547-3482

UK & Europe Booking:
Nigel Morton
Moneypenny Agency
+44(0)1377-217815
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Publicist:
Carey Baker
Conqueroo
Email or (323)656-1600

Management:
Nancy Sefton
Total Focus Management
Email or (310)838-1995

Stan Ridgway is a true original. One of the most unique singer/songwriters in American music, from his early days with L.A.'s Wall Of Voodoo, to his even more intriguing solo career, Ridgway has created an impressive body of work.

"Music is more than just chords and notes to me, it has the ability to make pictures in the mind," says noir troubadour and sound alchemist Stan Ridgway. "My records are designed to be seen as well as heard."

A mad scientist of sound and vision, Ridgway possesses a style unparalleled, at least in our known universe. Making his musical pictures for 30 years now, the singer-songwriter and guitarist has emerged as a singular voice in contemporary song.

"It's a hybrid of all the music I've loved and admired," he says. "There are no boundaries on art and no rules to follow in music. A song is really just a strong point of view."

Ridgway works in his own unique form of aural tradition, chronicling all that lies beneath the safe and sane surface. He craftily sets his dark materials to off-kilter and eerie melodies that echo the uneasy action of a cast of characters on the brink. His tales often take place in the microcosmic miasma of L.A. and its outer desert, where his creations try to wrest meaning from the beautiful catastrophe of their lives. The combination makes for a stunning stew of universal provocations.

"Some know him just as the long lost singer with the great Wall Of Voodoo, others as one of the great unsung maverick geniuses of our time." - MELODY MAKER

"For Stan Ridgway life is like an old detective movie, full of furtive con men and tough dames who hide their daily crimes in the gray mist of the city. This is mature music, short on sentimentality, long on imagination and style." - PEOPLE MAGAZINE