Alison Mosshart

Alison Mosshart is an American singer, songwriter and artist who fronts the rock bands The Kills and The Dead Weather. Born in Vero Beach, Florida, she formed the pop-punk band Discount at seventeen with skateboarding friends, recorded its first album while still in high school and toured the DIY punk underground before the group broke up in 2000. She then started The Kills in London with guitarist Jamie Hince, issuing Keep on Your Mean Side in 2003, No Wow in 2005, Midnight Boom in 2008, Blood Pressures in 2011 and Ash and Ice in 2016. She also sings lead and plays rhythm guitar in The Dead Weather, the band Jack White formed in 2008, and helped write much of its debut Horehound. Rolling Stone included Discount's Half Fiction on a list of the greatest pop-punk albums. She has exhibited her paintings as well, holding a first solo show in 2015.