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Niagara was born on 23 August, 1956 in Detroit, Michigan, United States, is an A 21st-century american women singer. Discover Niagara's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 67 years old?

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Occupation Painter, musician
Age 67 years old
Zodiac Sign Leo
Born 23 August, 1956
Birthday 23 August
Birthplace Detroit, Michigan, United States
Nationality United States

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1850

"The first art style that I identified with was Art Nouveau. Then I discovered Decadent Art (1850s-era England), the Pre-Raphaelite movement: haunted, pale, druggy women. I read constantly. I was deep into Dostoyevsky and Dickens. Colette. The best are the writers that can turn a phrase devastatingly funny. The witticisms and bon mots of Oscar Wilde, Mark Twain, Truman Capote, Tennessee Williams, Dorothy Parker. Andy Warhol was a riot. That's probably why I have captions in my paintings. I want the women in my paintings to speak."

1955

Niagara, born Lynn Rovner in Detroit, Michigan in 1955, is a painter and musician.

She was the lead vocalist of the proto-punk rock bands Destroy All Monsters (DAM) and Dark Carnival.

Her painting derives principally from the Lowbrow art movement.

1970

Her early 1970s work with collage, Xerox prints, and promotional materials for Destroy All Monsters influenced her later painting style; the bold, figurative images are evidence of that.

The "lowbrow" aesthetic epitomized by the painter Robert Williams, which evolved in Southern California in the 1970s, also influenced her.

Aside from overt Pop Art stylistic tropes, Niagara also incorporates influences of the Pre-Raphaelite movement, which with some friction honored both Romanticism and Realism and depicted strong if not tragic women such as the famous Ophelia by Millais, or The Blue Bower by Rossetti.

She also took cues from the Decadent movement, which was in turn influenced by Gothic fiction.

Art Nouveau imprints her work with its swirling, floral-inspired, whiplash lines and the belle époque women of Toulouse-Lautrec.

As a child, Niagara was enamored of John R. Neill who illustrated works by L. Frank Baum and others.

Niagara told Swindle magazine,

1974

At the University of Michigan, Niagara founded Destroy All Monsters in 1974 with fellow art students Mike Kelley and Jim Shaw and Filmmaker Cary Loren.

Destroy All Monsters was a band started in 1974 by University of Michigan art students Niagara on vocals; Mike Kelley on drums and vocals; Jim Shaw on vocals and squeeze toys; and Cary Loren on guitar and vocals.

This proto-noise-band was the first pure noise-band according to music historian and Sonic Youth band member, Thurston Moore, who said, "I can find no earlier example of such primitive playing with the use of non-instruments."

1977

In 1977, Niagara met ex-Stooges guitarist Ron Asheton, and he became her paramour.

Ron thought the band's music had potential.

To realize that potential, he recruited Michael Davis (ex-MC5 bassist), a real powerhouse crucial for rock bottom percussive bass.

Davis, recently released from prison, was available and agreed to be part of the band.

Next hired was Rob King on drums.

King's drums were precise, fast and powerful, an unusual combination.

Next the Miller brothers were added, Ben on saxophone, and Larry on guitar, both accomplished musicians with a punk-jazz pedigree.

The local media, including the Detroit Free Press, and The Detroit News attended early shows and gave prominent coverage to the "events," as the press referred to them.

Lester Bangs wrote about "Destroy All Monsters" affectionately in CREEM magazine.

Even Rolling Stone took notice with articles and interviews about the new punk phenomenon, "Niagara is strange on stage, almost like she was awakened from a deep slumber and is surprised to find herself on stage."

Spin Magazine described Niagara's stage presence as, "A thrift store Nico in a bloody gown."

Accounts of Niagara falling off stage were numerous.

Yet, Niagara seemed blessed with nine lives, and someone always caught her, including the MC5's Rob Tyner at the Kramer Theater, "I saved Niagara's life!"

After a brief European tour four singles were produced in this early Punk era: "Bored," "You're Gonna Die," "What Do I Get?"

and "Nobody Knows."

The Monsters soon hooked up with the Ramones and The Dead Boys.

1985

DAM remained active until 1985, with former members of The Stooges and the MC5 on board.

Niagara soon after fronted the group Dark Carnival (with guitarist Ron Asheton and drummer Scott Asheton—both recruited from The Stooges).

1994

In 1994, drawing from early rehearsal and performance tapes, Moore released a three disc box set of these seminal basement recordings, "DAM 1974-1976" on his music label Ecstatic Peace.

The original line up of musicians was not around long.

2004

In 2004, Classic Rock and Rock & Folk magazines named Niagara one of the "100 Greatest Front Men."

She was also one of two centrefolds for Punk Magazine along with Debbie Harry.

2014

In 2014, Niagara was the inspiration for a project in March 2014 British Vogue, Cause Célèbre, produced by Kate Moss in which model Daria Werbowy stands in for Niagara.

Niagara paints with acrylic on canvas.

With her use of bright colors, caricature portrayal of figures, and comic strip inclusion of words spoken by the figures, Niagara's style can loosely be described as Pop Art.

The cartoon and comic panel style was famously utilized by painter Roy Lichtenstein, also a touchstone for her work.