Born on January 17, 1959, in Los Angeles, California, to a film director and writer and a psychoanalyst, she has two brothers, and is a mother of two sons, born in 1995 and 1998.She began her music journey by learning guitar from her uncle after taking ballet as a child. College concerts, including seeing Patti Smith live and attending the final Sex Pistols show, inspired her to pursue a career in music. In 1981, she co-founded the Bangles, becoming the voice behind hits like "Eternal Flame" and "Walk Like an Egyptian."Raised in a creative, intellectual household, she celebrated her bat mitzvah in Jerusalem despite her father’s secular beliefs. She sang the studio version of “Eternal Flame” naked as a producer’s prank, briefly played in a faux-’60s band with Mike Myers for the Austin Powers films, and once dated Prince and Michael J. Fox.