Storm Large

Storm Large born Susan Storm Large June 25 1969 is an American singer songwriter actress and author She attracted national attention as a contestant on the CBS reality television show Rock Star Supernova A resident of Portland Oregon Large performs nationally with her own band and tours internationally with the Portlandbased band Pink Martini Storm Large was born and raised in suburban Southborough Massachusetts From the age of five she started singing and writing songs She graduated in 1987 from St Marks School a private school Her father Henry Large was a history teacher there as well as the football team coach before he retired After high school she attended the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York Large moved to Portland Oregon in 2002 originally planning to quit music and attend the Western Culinary Institute but at the urging of friends and in particular Frank Faillace owner of the Portland rock club Dantes she began singing again with a band she called The Balls Large is bisexual though she dislikes the term and instead calls herself sexually omnivorous While in San Francisco Storm formed the bands Flower SF Storm and Her Dirty Mouth and Storm Inc Storm also performed with Michael Cavaseno as the duo Storm and Michael or Storm and Friends Storm Inc featured Shaunna Hall of 4 Non Blondes and PFunk fame as a rhythm guitarist Hall was featured on The Calm Years LP and toured with the band for a few months after the albums release On January 12 2012 Storm published a memoir titled Crazy Enough It is an expansion on her cabaret show produced by Portland Center Stage The book published by Free Press is an account of her growing up with a mother with psychological issues her stint as a competitive rower and her eventual successes The Balls also known as Storm and the Balls were formed in MayJune 2002 after Large moved to Portland from San Francisco Storm and the Balls consisted of Davey Loprinzi aka Hotrod Davey Nipples formerly of Sweaty Nipples on bass guitar James Beaton on keyboards and Brian Parnel on drums The Balls drew what local media called a cultlike following in clubs primarily during Wednesday night shows at Dantes They perform loungecore mashup renditions of artists such as ABBA Black Sabbath Cheap Trick Billy Idol Led Zeppelin Motörhead and Olivia NewtonJohn as well as their own compositions Large worked parttime as a bartender at Dantes when not touring with The Balls The Balls opened for Everclear Nina Hagen Hank 3 Pleasure Club and Nancy Sinatra During live shows Storm has filled in for Jen Folker on vocals alongside Rob Wynia of Floater with Drumattica out of Portland Before moving to Portland she performed in the San Francisco Bay Area with her former bands Storm Inc Storm and Her Dirty Mouth and FlowerSF After Pink Martini vocalist China Forbes underwent vocal cord surgery Large toured with the band from July 4 through December 16 2011 as a temporary replacement She then joined the band on 2013 album Get Happy and as colead singer on the followup world tour She continues to perform worldwide with the group Source Article Storm Large from Wikipedia in English licensed under CCBYSA 30