| with his family when he was 7.... He Spent most of his childhood in Massachusetts. Son of an Anesthesiologist |
| He's the third in a family of six boys. Joey is a METS fan and a JETS fan...... |
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He went to U-Mass Amherst, where he met Charles Thompson( aka FRANK BLACK and BLACK FRANCIS). |
| He dropped out and co-founded a band called THE PIXIES with Charles Thompson somewhere in Boston. |
| Just like Jewel he's lived in a car, (in the back of Dunkin 'Donuts) when he and Charles first moved to Boston. |
| ( maybe for a night.....but isn't it romantic?????)Joey plays guitar. |
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Joey
also composes music for Film and Television.
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He
can be heard in the movie and soundtrack for "CRIME
AND PUNISHMENT IN SUBURBIA" Released on
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September
15th, 2000.Directed by ROB
SCHMIDT and has also Composed Music for Fox's UNDECLARED.
Joey is represented as a composer by Air
Edel agency.
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| de Mal) was from Pampanga, Philippines. A true Dr. Huxtebal, practicing medicine for over 30 years. Her Mom ( Mary) |
| is Czech from Ohio. Mary heads the International Organization H.O.P.E. which provides relief to those in need in the |
| Philippines. Linda has spent most of her life involved in music and performance in some way or another. |
| As a child she'd sit by her father at the piano and listen to his Piano "Inventions", he was self taught in |
| Piano and is very passionate about music as well as her mom who would sing and listen to Broadway musicals all |
| about the house. Her 6 siblings are all very talented musicians. ( Her brother Jay played in piano bars starting at the |
| age of 16. ) Most of the people in her family are health care, travel and design professionals. |
| She was Classically trained in Piano and Voice in her early school days. |
| She first learned to play guitar from a nun for 25 cents a lesson,(Sr. Ann Young) in fourth grade at Sacred Heart |
| School,Later to play every Sunday at Children's mass until she graduated high-school. |
| Linda once put on a one man show in fifth grade playing the guitar and riding the unicycle at the same time. She |
| spent her high school days at Mt. St. Charles, home of many Olympian and Professional hockey players throughout |
| the years. She was Presidient of the Beethoven club and Loved watching the Philharmonic where her mom |
| once slipped on a banana peel in front of Ocean State Theater.. She has a great sense of humor. |
| Linda won the Helen Spring Chapin Prize at DEAN JR. COLLEGE in Franklin Mass. For Inspiring |
| "deeper appreciation of Music in her class-mates" and minored in Music at Emerson College, where she received a |
| BS degree in Communications concentrating in Television Production. One of her most favorite professors |
| was REX TRAILER (Performance for Television) star of Boomtown. Linda DJ'd at both Emerson's ERS and |
| Dean's WGAO. Joey taught her bar chords for guitar 5 months before The first Martinis performance, |
| Never playing Rock quitar or having been in a Rock band before that time. |
| She has always loved to perform, and has also participated in Theatre and Jazz and Classical Music. Linda spent a |
| year traveling throughout the United States and Europe performing with the international group |
| UP WITH PEOPLE ,Where she traveled with her friend Denise Burns a very talented Comic and Web expert. |
| After returning from that tour she sold her first jingle to Digital Equipment Corporation "It takes all kinds" . |
| She was the Producer's Assistant for a Video shoot for DEC and wrote a song for fun, |
| consequently singing and playing it for their training video. That was a turning point of |
| inspiration for her as well as funding her first living space in Boston with former Dean graduate Monique (Gelmo) |
| Coppola in a small studio apartment in Boston for her first semester at EMERSON COLLEGE, months later she met |
| Joey in a place called The RAT in Kenmore Square. The Pixies had never played a show before then |
| and it was their common interest in music that sparked a bond between them . |
| Offering to sing back-ups for his band, he declined, telling her they already had a girl in the |
| band KIM DEAL (Breeders) |