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Gwen Stefani is an American singer and songwriter who first gained fame as the lead singer of the rock band No Doubt in the 1990s. No Doubt's breakthrough album was 1995's Tragic Kingdom, which included hit singles like "Just a Girl" and "Don't Speak." When No Doubt went on hiatus, Stefani began a successful solo career with her 2004 debut album Love.Angel.Music.Baby, which mixed pop and hip-hop styles. She has since released two more solo albums and occasionally reunited with No Doubt, while also appearing as a coach on the singing competition The Voice.

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Gwen Stefani is an American singer and songwriter who first gained fame as the lead singer of the rock band No Doubt in the 1990s. No Doubt's breakthrough album was 1995's Tragic Kingdom, which included hit singles like "Just a Girl" and "Don't Speak." When No Doubt went on hiatus, Stefani began a successful solo career with her 2004 debut album Love.Angel.Music.Baby, which mixed pop and hip-hop styles. She has since released two more solo albums and occasionally reunited with No Doubt, while also appearing as a coach on the singing competition The Voice.

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Gwen Stefani

Gwen Stefani, in full Gwen Renée Stefani, (born October 3,


1969, Fullerton, California, U.S.), American singer and songwriter
who came to fame in the 1990s as the lead singer for the rock-ska
band No Doubt before starting a solo career.

As teenagers in Orange county, California, Stefani and her brother


Eric helped found No Doubt, which fused ska with new wave-style
pop. The group’s breakthrough came with its third album, the
chart-topping Tragic Kingdom (1995), which included the hit
singles “Just a Girl,” “Spiderwebs,” and “Don’t Speak.” As the
band’s popularity grew, the spotlight was very much on the stylish
Stefani, who became almost instantly identifiable by her fire-
engine red lips and platinum blonde hair and who branched out
to collaborate on recordings with rapper Eve and techno artist
Moby. No Doubt followed Tragic Kingdom with Return of
Saturn (2000) and Rock Steady (2001), the latter of which
featured the Grammy Award-winning songs “Hey Baby” and
“Underneath It All.” In 2002 Stefani married Gavin Rossdale, the
front man for the British alternative rock group Bush; the couple
divorced in 2016.

When No Doubt went on hiatus, Stefani released her first solo


album, Love.Angel.Music.Baby (2004). Alongside such
collaborators as André 3000 (of OutKast), Dr. Dre, and production
duo the Neptunes, Stefani mixed hip-hop attitude with 1980s-style
dance-pop music reminiscent of some of her earliest influences,
including Prince and Madonna. On the strength of several hit
singles—including “Rich Girl,” “Hollaback Girl,” and “What You
Waiting For?”—Love.Angel.Music.Baby became an international
success. Music videos and live performances in support of the
album introduced Stefani’s four-woman Asian dance posse, the
Harajuku Girls, whose look was inspired by the
outré fashion of Tokyo’s Harajuku district. Shortly after the
album’s release, Stefani made her feature-film debut,
portraying Jean Harlow in Martin Scorsese’s The Aviator (2004),
which centred on the life of Howard Hughes. She also made
occasional television guest appearances as herself. Increasingly
seen as a trendsetter, Stefani also designed a clothing line.

Gwen Stefani performing with the Harajuku Girls, 2004.


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Stefani released her second full-length album, The Sweet Escape,


in 2006. She later reunited with her No Doubt bandmates for the
2012 album Push and Shove. Stefani’s third solo album, This Is
What the Truth Feels Like, appeared in 2016, and two years later
she began a Las Vegas residency titled Just a Girl. During this
time she also appeared as a coach on the singing competition
show The Voice (2014–15, 2017, 2019– ).

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