Artist Info: Phranc

Phranc (born Susan Gottlieb in 1957, Los Angeles, California) is an influential American singer-songwriter whose career has spanned several decades.

She first gained public attention in the late 1970s and early 1980s punk scene in Los Angeles. With her bleach blonde crewcut and male attire she was an androgynous enigma, well suited to perform in her first band Nervous Gender, which formed in 1978. The writer V/D wrote of her for the punk fanzine Slash, "On stage, Phranc looks like a 14-year-old runaway from a boys' reform school. [read more...]