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Tina Bell (Tina Marie Bell) was born on 5 February, 1957 in Seattle, Washington, U.S., is an American singer and songwriter. Discover Tina Bell's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is she in this year and how she spends money? Also learn how she earned most of networth at the age of 55 years old?

Popular As Tina Marie Bell
Occupation N/A
Age 55 years old
Zodiac Sign Aquarius
Born 5 February, 1957
Birthday 5 February
Birthplace Seattle, Washington, U.S.
Date of death 10 October, 2012
Died Place Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S.
Nationality United States

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Her husband is Thomas McKay Martin

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1957

Tina Marie Bell (February 5, 1957 – c. October 10, 2012) was an American singer, songwriter and front woman of the Seattle-based band Bam Bam.

The band with Bell was considered one of the founders of the grunge music scene.

Bell is considered an early grunge pioneer and was dubbed as "the Godmother of Grunge" and "queen of Grunge".

Bell was born and raised in Seattle, Washington.

She was the third of 10 siblings and the oldest daughter.

She got her start as a singer by singing at the Mount Zion Baptist Church in Seattle, and her first experience on stage was performing with the Langston Hughes Theater, also in Seattle.

When she was looking for a French tutor so that she could sing French lyrics in a Langston Hughes Theater production, Bell met guitarist Tommy Martin.

1979

Bell eventually married Martin, and on September 7, 1979, the couple had a son, Thomas McKay Martin Jr, who later became a filmmaker known as T. J. Martin and won the 2012 Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature for the film Undefeated (2011), becoming the first director of African-American descent to win an Academy Award for a feature-length film.

1980

After the mid-1980s, both Ledgerwood and Hendrickson left the band, but Bell continued to front the band with a new rhythm section, along with Martin on guitar.

In the late 80's and early 90's, Bam Bam performed in concerts with popular bands such as Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, and Alice in Chains.

After not receiving the local recognition of the other emerging "Seattle Sound" bands, Bell and the band left Seattle for London in the late 1980s, hoping for success in Europe.

This did not garner the intended recognition and resulted in deportation back to America during an immigration enforcement dragnet in the Netherlands.

1983

Bell and Martin formed a band called Bam Bam in 1983.

The band also included bassist Scott Ledgerwood and drummer Matt Cameron–the latter went on to join Soundgarden and then Pearl Jam.

Cameron was later replaced in Bam Bam by Tom Hendrickson.

Bell's diminutive frame of 5'2" belied her low smoky voice that was called "unapologetic".

According to Seattle Times: "The legacy of Bell, a Black woman, has often been overlooked in a genre typically associated with long-haired white guys."

These include Seattle breakout bands like Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Alice in Chains, Soundgarden, and others of that ilk.

She was sometimes the victim of racial attacks while on stage, but the Bell-led Bam Bam was popular with local audiences.

Future Nirvana founder Kurt Cobain once served as a roadie for the band and was also a fan.

1984

Although Bam Bam were courted by punk rock label C/Z Records, they opted instead to independently release their EP Villains (Also Wear White) in 1984.

This was the first grunge record made at Reciprocal Recording studio, the location where later Nirvana made demos for the Bleach and Incesticide albums.

Villains predated better known grunge recordings by about a year.

"It wasn't for more than $100. The first band I recorded that released any kind of vinyl was an outfit called Bam Bam," Reciprocal Recording's owner Chris Hanzsek (the latter producer of albums by Soundgarden, Mudhoney, Melvins, and others in the Seattle music scene) told Billboard magazine.

With songs written by Bell, Ledgerwood and Martin, and with Hendrickson on drums, Bam Bam recorded an album's worth of material at Reciprocal Recordings, including the material on the EP.

1990

Bell left Bam Bam in 1990, and eventually quit music entirely.

Bam Bam chose not to replace her, and instead continued as a 3-piece instrumental band.

1996

After her personal split from Martin, Bell filed for divorce on April 12, 1996, and their son stayed with Martin following their divorce.

She eventually moved into assisted living and was an occasional volunteer at a local church.

2012

A planned reunion of the original Bam Bam members was cut short in 2012 with the passing of Bell.

Bam Bam bassist Scott Ledgerwood has stated in interviews that he and Bell had started to write new music together before her death, and that Bell was also planning on making a documentary film and a memoir with the working title Conversations with the Grunge Queen, which was going to be directed by her son, T.J. Martin, but those projects ended with her death.

Bell died in her Las Vegas apartment of cirrhosis of the liver at age 55 on October 10, 2012.

Bell had struggled with alcohol and depression.

Her son TJ Martin said the coroner estimated her time of death as a couple weeks before her body was found.

When Martin arrived at his mother's apartment in Las Vegas, all of her belongings — except for a DVD player, a poster, and a chair — had been thrown away.

2019

Eight more of the tracks from the Reciprocal sessions were remastered and released in June 2019 as Free Fall From Space, produced by Martin and Hanzsek.

An expanded version of Villains (Also Wear White) was released in late 2021 on Bric-a-Brac Records.

Later that year, Bam Bam released the album Bam Bam House Demo '84, which included earlier home recordings of some of the songs recorded at Reciprocal Recording.

The band also released a video of the song "Ground Zero," written by Bell, Martin, Ledgerwood and Cameron and taken from the Reciprocal sessions.

The song contains lyrics written by Bell about the threat of nuclear war, inspired by living near the Naval Submarine Base Bangor, a home port for Trident nuclear submarines.