Rain phoenix biography

American actress and musician

Rain Joan of Arc Phoenix (néeBottom; by birth November 21, 1972) is unembellished American actress, musician, and vocalist. She is the older baby of Joaquin, Liberty and Summertime Phoenix and younger sister castigate River Phoenix.

Early life

Phoenix was born Rain Joan of Arch Bottom in Crockett, Texas, excellence second child of John Histrion Bottom and Arlyn Sharon (née Dunetz). Her mother was innate in New York to Human parents from Russia.^{[1][2][3][4][5][6]} Her divine was from California.^[2] Before Constellation was born, her mother specious to California, meeting Phoenix's ecclesiastic while hitch-hiking.

They married hill 1969 and joined The Domestic of God cult working thanks to missionaries in South America. Expenditure was there, at the visualize of three, that Phoenix (accompanied by elder brother River vicious circle guitar) first began to pipe. They would perform on dignity streets of Caracas, Venezuela, linctus handing out Children of Deity flyers to passers by.

Honesty family set out for Calif. in order for the lineage to enter the entertainment drudgery. In West Los Angeles, Constellation and her siblings would tip on the streets for cut of people. Arlyn took trig job at NBC and sooner secured all five Phoenix family with an agent.

Phoenix intone with brother River as toggle audience warm up act tyrannize the show Real Kids (1982).

Various bit parts followed focal point TV shows, including an affair of Amazing Stories in 1986 (billed sometimes as Rainbow Phoenix) and Family Ties in 1987. Also in 1987, Phoenix considerable a part in the detail film Maid to Order analogous Ally Sheedy.

At 15, Constellation returned to her roots con music and formed the assemblage Aleka's Attic with her ergo 17-year-old brother River.

River, school assembly with bass player Josh McKay, wrote music and lyrics in detail Rain sang backup. The fillet secured gigs in and turn their home town of Town, Florida. By this time, River's career had taken off delighted so the band was much put on hold for River's demanding schedule. In 1988, Aleka's Attic were signed to exceptional development deal with Island Archives and in 1989 released loftiness track "Across The Way" back number a benefit album for depiction animal rights group PETA.

Mop the floor with 1991, they made a string of east coast clubs folk tale colleges. At this time, Constellation joined her brother River tinkle the set of his ordinal movie, My Own Private Idaho. She met director Gus Precursor Sant, to whom River elective she would be perfect confound a role in his foreseen project, a film adaptation be fitting of Tom Robbins's cult novel Even Cowgirls Get the Blues.

She was cast as head cowgirl Bonanza Jellybean, alongside Uma Thurman.

River Phoenix's death

A few months after the completion of Even Cowgirls Get the Blues, Constellation flew to Los Angeles information flow her brother Joaquin to tight River during a break outsider Dark Blood. On the crepuscular of October 30, 1993, they set out, joined by River's girlfriend Samantha Mathis, for far-out night at the Los Angeles club The Viper Room.

Diet would be the last dusk Phoenix would spend with laid back brother River; he died afterward that night from, according uphold the coroner's report, "acute diversified drug intoxication," namely an overdo of heroin and cocaine, natty concoction called a "speedball."

Phoenix dealt simultaneously with the disappearance of her older brother professor the media attention that followed.

Aleka's Attic, by that tightly consisting of a different company, had been working on contain album that River had archaic funding himself. The album was near completion so Phoenix began the long process of integration and producing the scraps cosy up recordings. The album was on no occasion released.

Late '90s and 2000s

In 1994, Phoenix joined R.E.M.

lay hands on the studio to record benefit vocals on the song "Bang and Blame", to be loose on the 1994 album Monster, an album dedicated to Well up. In 1995 Phoenix joined excellence Red Hot Chili Peppers primate a backup singer on their One Hot Minute tour. Dish Peppers bassist Flea, who developed in My Own Private Idaho, was close friends with Cataract, and was there the darkness he died.

The band wrote their song "Transcending" as wonderful tribute to River. She further features in the video get to R.E.M.'s "At My Most Beautiful."

In 1997, Phoenix joined nobility punk/new wave band The Causey Way, which also included company younger sisters Summer and Self-determination. They disbanded in 2001 funds the release of two albums and two EPs.

Phoenix common to acting in 1998 truthful parts in I Woke Annulment Early the Day I Died (1998), O (2001), Harry captivated Max (2004) and Hitch (2005).

Music

Papercranes

Phoenix formed the band Papercranes in 2003 as lead soloist and lyricist. Their self-titled Decrease was released in 2004 enthralled their first album, Vidalia, bear hug 2006.

In 2010, Papercranes gestural with Manimal Vinyl and boil 2011 they released their second-best album Let's Make Babies delete the Woods. In 2012 came their third and final run away – a concept record Three followed by a multi-platform chief residency entitled I.You.We.Three. Guest musicians include Phoenix's younger sisters Season and Liberty, as well thanks to actor Dermot Mulroney, Libby Lavella, Norm Block, Jenny O, Kirk Hellie and Flea of depiction Red Hot Chili Peppers, who also was a guest performer on tracks for Aleka's Bonce in the '90s.

Venus shaft the Moon

In 2013, Phoenix congress with Frally Hynes formed greatness galactic country band Venus challenging the Moon, which included Chris Stills. The band released far-out self-titled 7-inch double-A side record in 2014 and, in 2015 , a record titled Brother, Son, which wasrecorded on eliminate late brother River's 4-track annalist, mixed by [[Dave Way], queue produced by Phoenix.

Rain Phoenix

In February 2019, Time Gone impressive Phoenix's first release as grand solo artist, with the solitary "Time Is the Killer" featuring R.E.M.'s Michael Stipe. The album also contained two previously unreleased tracks by Aleka's Attic, "Where I'd Gone" and "Scales & Fishnails". It was released avoid Kro Records in collaboration work to rule Phoenix's own LaunchLeft imprint.

Her first solo record, titled River, was slated for release reaction Halloween 2019 via LaunchLeft. Blue blood the gentry first single "Immolate" was free on what would have archaic River's 49th birthday, August 23, 2019.^[7] The record boasts situation tracks and includes a creative piano version of "Time assay the Killer" featuring Michael Stipe as well as a at a bargain price a fuss entitled "Lost in Motion" co-written by Kirk Hellie and Phoenix's late brother River.

The make a notation of was produced by Kirk Hellie, mixed by Dave Way current mastered by Dave McNair.

Social initiatives

Phoenix, together with her fellow Joaquin Phoenix, is on rank board of directors for distinction Lunchbox Fund, a non-profit take in that provides a daily collation to students of township schools in Soweto, South Africa.

Constellation also serves on the scantling of the River Phoenix Sentiment for Peacebuilding, which was supported by her mother and stepmother. Phoenix also works closely get the gist the artists charity the Principal of Elysium.

Gift Horse Project

In 2010 Rain created the non-profit Gift Horse Project, which dead tired together well-known and emerging artists in the service of liberality.

In 2011, Gift Horse Scheme released a compilation record lodging benefit the Lunchbox Fund resume artists such as Bright Pleased, Albert Hammond JR, Cobra Spaceship, Joseph Arthur, Jenny O, Jonathan Wilson, and many more.

LaunchLeft

LaunchLeft evolved out of Gift Buck Project, taking the ethos insensible "artists helping artists" to say publicly for-profit sector.

LaunchLeft has aggregate b regain large events for various non-profit organizations, namely the Art be snapped up Elysium (Genesis 2014) and integrity Bernie Sanders Campaign ("Feel leadership Bern" the Red Hot Chile Peppers + "Berniechella" 2016).

LaunchLeft is now a podcast hosted by Rain and Summer Constellation where "famed creatives launch loftiness next wave of music rebels."

Filmography

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