Lucia Cifarelli

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{{Use American English|date=August 2023}}
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{{Short description|American singer}}
{{BLP sources|date=May 2010}}
{{Infobox musical artist
|name = Lucia Cifarelli
|image = LuciaCifarelli2022 (cropped).jpg
|caption = Cifarelli performing with [[KMFDM]] in 2022
|background = solo_singer
|alias =
|birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1970|9|23}}
|origin = [[Long Island]], New York, U.S.
|genre = [[Industrial metal]], [[industrial rock]], [[alternative rock]], [[hard rock]]
|occupation = Singer, musician
|instruments=Vocals, keyboards
|current_member_of = [[KMFDM]]
|past_member_of = [[Drill (American band)|Drill]], [[MDFMK]], [[KGC (band)|KGC]], [[Schwein]]
}}

'''Lucia Cifarelli''' (born September 23, 1970) is an American singer, best known for her work with [[Industrial music|industrial]] band [[KMFDM]]. She was formerly the vocalist for the band [[Drill (American band)|Drill]]<ref name="Rivadavia">{{cite web|url={{Allmusic|class=artist|id=p173896/biography|pure_url=yes}}|title=Biography: Drill|last=Rivadavia|first=Eduardo|publisher=[[AllMusic]]|accessdate=May 25, 2010}}</ref> and also performed in KMFDM offshoots [[MDFMK]] and [[KGC (band)|KGC]], and the [[Pig_(musical_project)|<PIG>]] / [[Buck-Tick]] project [[Schwein]].

== Career ==
Cifarelli got her start recording in studios in New York, eventually forming her own band, [[Drill (American band)|Drill]], along with future [[Black Label Society]] bass guitarist [[John DeServio]]. Drill released [[Drill (album)|one self-titled album]], spawning two music videos and getting a third song featured in the movie ''[[Empire Records]]''. Later in 1995, Drill opened for [[Stabbing Westward]]'s ''Wither, Blister, Burn, and Peel'' Tour. The band broke up shortly after the end of the tour.

Cifarelli joined the KMFDM-hiatus band MDFMK in 2000. The project lasted for one self-titled album. In 2001, Cifarelli and [[Sascha Konietzko]] worked on the [[Supergroup (music)|supergroup]] [[Schwein]] and its albums ''[[Schweinstein]]'' and the subsequent remix album ''[[Son of Schweinstein]]''. After the MDFMK project was discontinued, Cifarelli was asked to return as a member of KMFDM. She has been a member of the band since 2002's ''[[Attak]]''. She recorded two solo albums, ''[[From the Land of Volcanos]]'' (2003) and ''I Am Eye'' (2021). One single from the first album, "I Will", appeared on the ''[[American Pie 2]]'' soundtrack. Cifarelli performed on the band [[KGC (band)|KGC]]'s 2006 album ''[[Dirty Bomb (KGC album)|Dirty Bomb]]''.

== Personal life ==
Lucia Cifarelli was born on September 23, 1970, in [[Long Island]], New York. The youngest of four children, she grew up surrounded by music and art, developing a love for singing, songwriting and performing at an early age. Cifarelli's first vocal coach, Tanya Travers, whom she found in the ''[[Village Voice]]'' classified ads at fourteen, introduced Cifarelli to her first songwriting collaborator Dan Wise, who would later go on to produce such notable artists as [[Run-DMC]], [[The New York Dolls]], [[Ani Difranco]], 22 Brides, John Mayor and [[The Scissor Sisters]].
Travers would later introduce Cifarelli to music producer [[Ric Wake]], who signed her band Drill to [[A&M Records]].

Due to a label restructuring, the band was dropped upon delivery of their sophomore effort and later broke up. Not long after Cifarelli joined MDFMK, an offshoot of KMFDM, where she co-wrote, recorded and toured with the band for their only album on [[Republic Records]].

Before the reformation of KMFDM, Cifarelli secured a record deal with [[Universal Records]] and moved to London to record her first solo album ''[[From the Land of Volcanos]]'' with music producer [[Ian Stanley]], one of the original members of [[Tears for Fears]]. Universal later declined to release it.

Since the reformation of KMFDM, Cifarelli has been a featured vocalist and co-writer on every album since 2002 and has played 456 shows with the band as of January 2020.

In November 2019, Cifarelli began writing her follow-up solo album. On July 2, 2021, she released the album ''[[I Am Eye]]''.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://luciacifarelli.bandcamp.com/album/i-am-eye-3|title = I Am Eye, by Lucia Cifarelli}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url= http://luciacifarelli.com/biography/ | title=Lucia Cifarelli Official Website | date=March 26, 2021 | accessdate=March 26, 2021}}</ref>

In July 2005, she married KMFDM founder and producer [[Sascha Konietzko]]. They live in [[Hamburg, Germany]], her husband's hometown. The couple has one daughter named Annabella.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.radiometal.com/article/kmfdm-family-matters,80647| title=KMFDM: Family Matters | date=September 7, 2012 | accessdate=December 19, 2017}}</ref>

== Discography ==
[[File:KMFDM Castle Party 2009 08.jpg|thumb|Cifarelli with KMFDM in 2009]]
=== KMFDM ===
* ''[[Attak]]'' (2002)
* ''[[WWIII (album)|WWIII]]'' (2003)
* ''[[Hau Ruck]]'' (2005)
* ''[[Tohuvabohu (album)|Tohuvabohu]]'' (2007)
* ''[[Blitz (KMFDM album)|Blitz]]'' (2009)
* ''[[WTF?!]]'' (2011)
* ''[[Kunst (album)|Kunst]]'' (2013)
* ''[[Our Time Will Come (album)|Our Time Will Come]]'' (2014)
* ''[[Hell Yeah (KMFDM album)|Hell Yeah]]'' (2017)
* ''[[Paradise (KMFDM album)|Paradise]]'' (2019)
* ''[[Hyëna (KMFDM album)|Hyëna]]'' (2022)
* ''Let Go'' (2024)

=== Solo ===
* ''[[From the Land of Volcanos]]'' (2003)
* ''I Am Eye'' (2021)
* ''NO GOD HERE'' (2024)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://luciacifarelli.bandcamp.com/album/no-god-here|title = NO GOD HERE, by Lucia Cifarelli}}</ref>

=== Other ===
* ''Drill'', [[Drill (American band)|Drill]] (1995)
* [[MDFMK (album)|MDFMK]], [[MDFMK]] (2000)
* Schweinstein, [[Schwein]] (2001)
* ''[[Dirty Bomb (album)|Dirty Bomb]]'', KGC (2006)

== References ==
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== External links ==
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*[https://twitter.com/LuciaKMFDM/ Lucia Cifarelli Twitter]
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[[Category:American women heavy metal singers]]
[[Category:American heavy metal singers]]
[[Category:American industrial musicians]]
[[Category:American people of Italian descent]]
[[Category:American expatriates in West Germany]]
[[Category:KMFDM members]]
[[Category:Schwein members]]
[[Category:21st-century American singers]]
[[Category:21st-century American women singers]]
[[Category:People from Long Island]]
[[Category:Singers from New York (state)]]

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