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Infobox musical artist | name = Phranc| image = Phranc 02.jpg| caption = Phranc| image_size =| background = solo_singer| birth_name = Susan Gottlieb| alias =| birth_date = Birth date and age|1957|8|28| death_date =| origin = Santa Monica, California | instrument =| genre =| occupation =| years_active = 1970s -| label =| associated_acts = Catholic Discipline Nervous Gender | website =| current_members =| past_members =| notable_instruments = Phranc (born Susan Gottlieb on August 28, 1957 in Santa Monica, California )Strong, Martin C. (2003) The Great Indie Discography , Canongate, ISBN 1-84195-335-0, p. 453 is an United States|American singer-songwriter whose career has spanned several decades, and is also known for her cardboard and kraft paper fine art.
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She began her performing career in the late 1970s and early 1980s Punk rock|punk scene in Los Angeles . She had a bleach blonde crewcut and wore male attire creating an androgynous persona for her first band Nervous Gender , which formed in 1978. The writer V/D wrote of her for the punk Fanzines|fanzine Slash (fanzine)|Slash , "On stage, Phranc looks like a 14-year-old runaway from a boys' reform school." The band was influential in the development of what later came to be known as ' Synthpunk '. In 1980 she left Nervous Gender to join Catholic Discipline , in which Claude Bessy (singer)|Claude Bessy , journalist for Slash (fanzine)|Slash punk fanzine, was the lead singer. She was also in Castration Squad , a feminist, all-girl punk band that was pivotal on the punk movement.
Phranc appears with Catholic Discipline in The Decline of Western Civilization , a documentary by Penelope Spheeris .
In the 1980s Phranc pursued a solo career. She performs in Paul Morrissey 's film ''Madame Wang's (1981) as Phranque. She began playing an acoustic guitar and released Folksinger on Rhino Records in 1985.citation |title=Flat-top Fantasies, Post-punk Politics from Folksinger Phranc |periodical= The Advocate |url= http://www.monkeychicken.com/AdamBlock/1986_7_22phranc.pdf |date=July 22, 1986 |first=Adam |last=Block She opened for music acts such as The Smiths , Hüsker Dü , Violent Femmes , and Billy Bragg . She styled herself the "All-American Jewish Lesbian Folksinger"citation |title=Phranc |periodical= The Advocate |url= http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1589/is_n742/ai_20139108 |date=September 16, 1997 |first=Michael |last=Kort |accessdate=2008-02-10 |format= – http://scholar.google.co.uk/scholar? hl=en& lr=& q=author%3AKort+intitle%3APhranc& as_publication=& as_ylo=& as_yhi=& btnG=Search Scholar searchDead link|date=April 2009 and with a wry sense of humour released the LP I Enjoy Being a Girl (album)|I Enjoy Being a Girl '' in 1989 on Island Records , appearing on the cover with her trademark 'flat top' hair style.citation |title=Of Flattops, Fake Fags, and Real Benefits |periodical= The Advocate |url= http://www.monkeychicken.com/AdamBlock/1989_6_20phranc.pdf |date=June 20, 1989 |first=Adam |last=Block Describing a live performance, Adam Block wrote "Phranc's unnerving androgyny (expressed with easy confidence) and her fervent opinions (couched in sly, laconic wit) make her a fascinating performer."citation |title=Phranc Talk |periodical= The Advocate |url= http://www.monkeychicken.com/AdamBlock/1990_2_27phranc.pdf |date=February 27, 1990 |first=Adam |last=Block Her third full-length recording, released in 1991, was Positively Phranc .citation |title=Positively Phranc |periodical= Entertainment Weekly |url= http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,313986,00.html |date=April 12, 1991 |first=Jim |last=Farbercitation |title=Lavender Wave |periodical= The Advocate |url= http://www.monkeychicken.com/AdamBlock/1991_3_26lavender.pdf |date=March 26, 1991 |first=Adam |last=Block
Phranc was an important influence on the Queercore movement,Citation needed|date=October 2007 being acknowledged as such by Team Dresch in their song for her, "Uncle Phranc". In the 1990s many queercore bands and musicians involved in queercore music began collaborating with her. She appeared as a guest on the Team Dresch LP/CD Captain My Captain and, as well, members of Team Dresch, Tobi Vail of Bikini Kill , Patty Schemel of Hole (band)|Hole and others have played with Phranc on her EP Goofyfoot and other songs. Phranc performs and is interviewed in the queercore documentary '' She's Real, Worse Than Queer '' by Lucy Thane and she has appeared frequently at queercore events such as Olympia, Washington|Olympia 's Homo-a-go-go festival. In the 1990s Phranc performed "Hot August Phranc", performing as Neil Diamond .citation |title=EGOS & amp; IDS; Phranc, As in Frank Or Neil |periodical=New York Times |url= http://www.nytimes.com/1993/08/15/style/egos-ids-phranc-as-in-frank-or-neil.html |date=August 15, 1993 |first=Degen |last=Pener On her full-length CD of 1998, Milkman (album)|Milkman , she is joined by Steven Shane McDonald|Steve MacDonald of Redd Kross , who plays bass. Her most recent releases, including Milkman , appear on her own independent record labels|independent record label , Phancy Records .
The 2001 documentary film http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0305762 "Lifetime Guarantee", directed by Lisa Udelson, chronicled Phranc's life with a focus on her day job as a Tupperware consultant. Phranc lives with her domestic partner|partner and children in Santa Monica , California , and continues to sell Tupperware. She performs occasionally, but spends more time working on creative visual art projects, including the http://phrancthecardboardcobbler.blogspot.com/ Cardboard Cobbler sculptures. In December 2007 she had a solo art show at Cue Art Foundation in New York City curated by Ann Magnuson ; the New York Times review compared her work to Claes Oldenburg and Andy Warhol .citation |title=Art in Review |periodical=New York Times |url= http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/21/arts/design/21gall.html? _r=1& pagewanted=all |date=December 21, 2007 |first=Martha |last=Schwendener Phranc had her first major West Coast solo show, at http://www.CraigKrullGallery.com/Phranc Craig Krull Gallery, June 18 to July 23, 2011, an exhibition made of beach themed cardboard and kraft paper works. She continues to work in her Santa Monica studio and is represented by Krull.
Discography
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Folksinger (1985), Rhino
I Enjoy Being a Girl (album)|I Enjoy Being a Girl LP (1989), Island
Positively Phranc LP (1991), Island
Goofyfoot 10" EP (1995), Kill Rock Stars
Milkman (album)|Milkman LP (1998), Phancy
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"Amazon" (1985), Stiff
"The Lonesome Death of Hatty Carroll" (1986), Stiff
Bulldagger Swagger b/w ''Hillary's Eyebrows 7" single (1994), Kill Rock Stars
;Compilations
"My Favorite Women Newscasters" on The Best of the Radio Toyko Tapes (Chameleon 8608, 1987)
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