Their self-titled EP was released in 2004 and their first album, Vidalia, in 2006. Phoenix formed the band Papercranes in 2003 and is lead singer and lyricist. Phoenix returned to acting in 1998 with parts in I Woke Up Early the Day I Died (1998), O (2001), Harry and Max (2004) and Hitch (2005). They disbanded in 2001 after the release of two albums and two EPs. In 1997, Phoenix joined the punk/ new wave band The Causey Way, which also included her younger sisters Summer and Liberty. She also features in the video for R.E.M.'s " At My Most Beautiful." The band wrote their song "Transcending" as a tribute to River. Chili Peppers bassist Flea, who appeared in My Own Private Idaho, was close friends with River, and was there the night he died. In 1995 Phoenix joined the Red Hot Chili Peppers as a backup singer on their One Hot Minute tour. in the studio to record backup vocals on the song "Bang and Blame", to be released on the 1995 album Monster, an album dedicated to River. The album was near completion so Phoenix began the long task of mixing and producing the scraps of recordings. Aleka's Attic, by that time consisting a different line-up, had been working on an album that River had been funding himself. Phoenix dealt simultaneously with the loss of her older brother and the media circus that followed. It would be the last evening Phoenix would spend with her brother he died later that night from, according to the coroner's report, "acute multiple drug intoxication," namely an overdose of heroin and cocaine, a concoction called a " speedball". On the evening of October 30, 1993, they set out, joined by River's girlfriend Samantha Mathis, for a night at the Los Angeles club The Viper Room, which is in part owned by Johnny Depp. River Phoenix's deathĪ few months after the film's completion, Phoenix flew to Los Angeles with her brother Joaquin to meet River during a break from Dark Blood. She was cast as head cowgirl Bonanza Jellybean, alongside Uma Thurman. She met director Gus Van Sant to whom River suggested she would be perfect for a role in his upcoming project, a film adaptation of Tom Robbins's cult novel, Even Cowgirls Get the Blues. At this time, Phoenix joined her brother River on the set of his tenth movie, My Own Private Idaho. In 1991, they made a tour of east coast clubs and colleges. In 1988, Aleka's Attic were signed to a development deal with Island Records and in 1989 released the track "Across The Way" on a benefit album for the animal rights group PETA. The band secured gigs in and around their home town of Gainesville, Florida By this time, River's career had taken off and so the band was often put on hold for River's demanding schedule. River, along with bass player Josh McKay, wrote music and lyrics and Rain sang backup. Also in 1987, Phoenix landed a part in the feature film Maid to Order alongside Ally Sheedy.Īt 15, Phoenix returned to her roots in music and formed the band Aleka's Attic with her then 17-year-old brother River. Phoenix sang with brother River as an audience warm up act on the show Real Kids (1982).Various bit parts followed in TV shows including Family Ties in 1987. Arlyn took a job at NBC and eventually secured all five Phoenix children with an agent. In West Los Angeles, Phoenix and her siblings would perform on the streets for crowds of people. The family set out for California in order for the children to enter the entertainment industry. They would perform on the streets of Caracas, Venezuela for loose change while handing out Christian flyers to passers by. It was there, at the age of three, that Phoenix (accompanied by elder brother River on guitar) first began to sing. They married in 1969 and joined Children of God and worked as missionaries in South America. In 1968, Phoenix's mother left her family and moved to California, meeting Phoenix's father while Hitch-hiking. Her father was a lapsed Catholic from Fontana, California. Her mother was born in the Bronx, New York to Jewish parents from Hungary and Russia. Phoenix was born Rain Joan of Arc Bottom in Crockett, Texas, the second child of John Lee Bottom and Arlyn Sharon (née Dunetz).
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