Andy Prieboy (Wall of Voodoo)

Andy Prieboy (b. East Chicago - ) – While growing up in East Chicago, Prieboy joined his first band at age fourteen and later moved on to the San Francisco punk scene, where he fronted and wrote for the band Eye Protection. In 1983, he replaced Stan Ridgeway as the lead singer of Wall of Voodoo, a popular new wave band in L.A. After recording three albums with Wall of Voodoo on IRS, he left the group in 1988 to pursue a solo career. His first solo album, Upon My Wicked Son (Doctor Dream Records, 1990), included “Tomorrow, Wendy,” which Concrete Blond made famous in the same year. Also on the album are “Loving the Highway Man,” which Emmylou Harris and Linda Rondstadt covered, and “Man Talk,” which premiered in a horror film with Brad Pitt called Cutting Glass (1989). Beginning in 1995 at L.A.’s Largo club, Prieboy started performing songs—only one at a time—from an original Broadway satire entitled “White Trash Wins Lotto,” which he and a supporting cast produced in its entirety at the Roxy Theatre on the Sunset Strip. He also performed a medley from the show on the Conan O’Brien Show. In 2016, he released his first album in twenty years called Virtue Triumphs, that started in the early '90s. Also a novelist, Prieboy is also an accomplished novelist.