Belinda Carlisle
Belinda Carlisle (born August 17, 1958) is an American Grammy Award nominated singer, songwriter and memoirist. She gained fame as the lead vocalist of The Go-Go's, and and went on to have a prolific career as a solo artist after the Go-Go's disbandment in 1985.
Carlisle was born in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California. Raised in Southern California, Carlisle was the lead vocalist of The Go-Go's, which she co-founded in 1978. With their chart-topping debut studio album "Beauty and the Beat" in 1981, the group helped popularize new wave music in the United States. The Go-Go's have sold over seven million records worldwide.[1]
After the break-up of The Go-Go's in 1985, Carlisle went on to have a successful solo career with radio hits such as "Mad About You", "Heaven Is A Place On Earth", "I Get Weak", "Circle In The Sand", "Leave A Light On", and "Summer Rain". The Go-Go's reformed in 1999; Carlisle maintained her solo career and performed with the band until its disbandment in 2022, returning for two festival performances in 2025.
Carlisle's autobiography, "Lips Unsealed", published in June 2010, was a New York Times Best Seller and received favorable reviews.[2] In 1999, Carlisle was ranked No. 76 with The Go-Go's in VH1's "100 Greatest Women of Rock & Roll",[3] In 2011, Carlisle, as a member of The Go-Go's, received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.[4] She and the band were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2021[5] and the California Hall of Fame in 2024.[6]
Discography
[change | change source]- Belinda (1986)
- Heaven On Earth (1987)
- Runaway Horses (1989)
- Live Your Life Be Free (1991)
- Real (1993)
- A Woman & A Man (1996)
- Voila (2007)
- Wilder Shores (2017)
- Once Upon A Time In California (2025)
References
[change | change source]- ↑ Editors, AskMen. "Belinda Carlisle". AskMen. Retrieved 2026-01-25.
{{cite web}}:|last=has generic name (help) - ↑ Eby, Margaret (2010-06-02). ""Lips Unsealed": Belinda Carlisle comes clean". Salon.com. Retrieved 2026-01-25.
- ↑ 100 Greatest Women of Rock & Roll, ABBA, Tori Amos, Joan Armatrading, Viacom Productions, 1999-07-26, retrieved 2026-01-25
{{citation}}: CS1 maint: others (link) - ↑ Aug. 11; 2011. "The Go-Go's". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 2026-01-25.
{{cite web}}:|last2=has numeric name (help)CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) - ↑ "Go-Go's Inducted Into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame". Ultimate Classic Rock. 2021-10-31. Retrieved 2026-01-25.
- ↑ Johnson, Ted (2024-01-30). "The Go-Gos, Ava DuVernay And Los Lobos To Be Inducted Into California Hall Of Fame". Deadline. Retrieved 2026-01-25.
