Lydia Lunch
Lydia Lunch was born Lydia Koch on June 2, 1959 in Rochester, New York. In 1976, at the age of 16, she moved to New York City, spurred by her attraction to the likes of “The groups that had originally made me want to go to New York and which originally had made me run away at 14 to go and investigate [were] Patti Smith, Richard Hell, Television,” Lunch told Perfect Sound Forever in 1997, explaining her attraction to and desire to supersede the New York punk scene she found in the mid-70s. “Although they attracted me there and they were a welcome relief from a place like upstate New York, I wanted to create something that would completely divorce myself from that, break away and shoot forward. I still found that a lot of things that... Read More
- City Of Origin:
- Rochester, New York, United States
- Genre:
- Rock, Post Punk, Spoken Word, Literature, Poetry
- Birthdate:
- 1959
