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Tina Bell
Happy Birthday Tina Bell!!
..miss you always..

Seeing things thru for Tina Bell & Bam Bam.. Hey it's what I do!!
A busted arm, smoke inhalation, stitches, backdraft scorch 2-D burns, shrapnel in legs & ass. Lost lots but saved Bam Bam's Reciprocal Recording masters; safely delivered to Jack Endino's gifted hands. Bam Bam - Villains now on Bric-a-Brac Records.

Scotty 'Buttocks' Ledgerwood and Jack Endino outside Soundhouse Studio Seattle (delivering Bam Bam masters)

Bam Bam - Villains (also wear white) 12" vinyl & digital on Bric-a-Brac Records https://bambam.bandcamp.com/.../villains-also-wear-white-ep
How Chicago helped put the Queen of Grunge back on her throne
Happy Birthday to our Tina Bell
..miss you everyday..
Tina Bell & Scotty Buttocks

KING 5 photojournalist Adam Thompson talks about Tina Bell & Bam Bam on Seattle's KING 5 News "Biggest Stories of the Year" from 2021.
Who Was Rocker Tina Bell? And Why It Matters.
TINA BELL, QUEEN OF GRUNGE PUNK
The first African American women to front a punk grunge, hard rock band in the US. Greatest female rock singer since Janis Joplin.
Brilliant song writer, lyricist, performer; The Queen of grunge punk, she fronted Seattle grunge pioneers Bam Bam 1983-1990.
Tina Bell first found her voice singing in choir at the Mount Zion Baptist Church of Seattle. Her first stage experience was not in a band, but performing with The Langston Hughes Theater, also in Seattle.
In 1984 Tina Bell and her band Bam Bam recorded & released one of the first pieces of vinyl on Seattle's early grunge scene; THE first from famed Reciprocal Recording Studios in Seattle. (the ep "Villains also wear white").
Despite years of dedication, innovative music and packed shows, acceptance for Tina was elusive. People simply weren't ready for her yet.
The lack of recognition eventually took its toll on Bell. She retired from music in 1990.
In 2012, her (& Bam Bam guitarist Tommy Martin's) son TJ Martin won the Academy Award for Best Director of a Feature Length Documentary for his film Undefeated. ABC aired a portion of Tina Bell's final interview during the Academy Awards broadcast.
Tina Bell died Oct 2012 while plans were underway for a Bam Bam reunion.
Tina Marie Bell, 1957-2012.

This week I had the honor of being interviewed by Samantha Hollins of The Culture Rock Griot to talk about Bam Bam and the incomparable Tina Bell. Feb 5 is her birthday: Happy Birthday Tina Bell!! Thank you and much love to Samantha Hollins.

"Tina Bell; a pioneering Black woman in grunge".
Tina Bell listed in Brazil's Enciclopédiadaspretasnorock aka Encyclopedia of black rock.
Tina Bell pics
Tina Bell, Queen of Grunge

Bam Bam Tributaries. Back, L-R: Kendall Jones, Scotty 'Buttocks' Ledgerwood, TJ Martin, Matt Cameron, DEJHA, D'mitra Smith. Front, L-R: Jenelle Roccaforte, Om Johart, Shaina Shepherd, Eva Walker. Seated: Ayron Jones. pic courtesy of Eva Walker.
Tina Bell - Artist's Portrayals

Tina Bell by Jamakin’ Dave. https://www.jamakindaveworks.com/

Bam Bam. by Ilya Hart aka HartArtist #hartartist - https://www.instagram.com/hartartist/

Bam Bam singer Tina Bell by Eddie Buchanan. https://www.instagram.com/foolstemper/?hl=en

Bam Bam singer Tina Bell. by Rachelle Baker for Leslie Kwan's new children's hardcover picture book 'A Is For Aretha', on Kokila-Penguin-Random House Books

Bam Bam mini sketch, by A.P. Lilly https://www.instagram.com/ap.lilly/

Bam Bam singer Tina Bell. by Ilya Hart aka HartArtist #hartartist - https://www.instagram.com/hartartist/

Kiersey Clemons wears Bam Bam singer Tina Bell shirt in the film "Somebody I Used to Know". design by Scotty Buttocks Ledgerwood, pic by Cyndia Michelle

Bam Bam singer Tina Bell, by Fernanda Sponchiado, on display in Joinville SC Brazil at the exhibition 'Black Women in the Underground' by Negras no Underground.

Bam Bam singer Tina Bell, by Eddie Buchanan https://www.instagram.com/foolstemper/?hl=en

The Godmother of grunge. Tina Bell of Bam Bam. by Ilya Hart aka HartArtist #hartartist - https://www.instagram.com/hartartist/