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Title: Zooey Deschanel & Becky Stark
Description: I Love Zooey! She is terrible acting but Beautiful singing

Title: The Decemberists w/ Becky Stark & Shara Worden Crazy On You (Tabernacle ...
Description: This was pretty much the highlight of the second half of the show.

Title: Interview with Becky Stark of Lavender Diamond
Description: An interview with Becky Stark of Lavender Diamond by Hen House Studios. video from: www.henhousestudios.com

Title: Decemberists feat. Shara Worden & Becky Stark, "Crazy on You"
Description: at Richmond's The National

Title: From the Brothers Grimm: Willa: An American Snow White
Description: Snow White" by Tom Davenport. Becky Stark, who is the lead singer for Lavender Diamond (lavenderdiamond.com), plays Willa. Becky had just ...

Title: The Decemberists(With Shara Worden & Becky Stark) cover Hearts Crazy On You ...
Description: The Decemberists(With Shara Worden & Becky Stark) cover Heart's Crazy On You @ Rock The Garden 09 at the Walker Art Center
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Variety - Found Oct. 21, 2009 The Wanting Comes in Waves" and "The Queen's Rebuke." In her duets with frontman Colin Meloy, Becky Stark, from local band Lavender Diamond... |
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Los Angeles Times - Found Oct. 15, 2009 ... of splintering bones and, oddly, a collage of bananas.The Decemberists, joined by guest vocalists Becky Stark and My Brightest Diamond's Shara... |
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TrendCentral - Found Oct. 16, 2009 Founded by indie chanteuse Becky Stark (Lavender Diamond) and queen of the experimental scene Aska Matsumiya (the Sads, Moonrats, AsDSSka... |
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Lexington Herald Leader - Found Oct. 7, 2009 ... the decemberists: becky stark, shara worden, chris funk, jenny conlee, colin meloy, nate query and john moen. |
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Vermont Cynic - Found Sep. 29, 2009 But an airport delay left one of the guest vocalists, Becky Stark, elsewhere and the band was forced to play what lead singer Colin Meloy... |
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Longview Daily News - Found Oct. 8, 2009 ... the band is being augmented for the new material by vocalists Shara Worden (of My Brightest Diamond) and Becky Stark (of Lavender Diamond). |
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Lexington Herald Leader - Found Oct. 8, 2009 The band will be augmented for the new material by vocalists Shara Worden (of My Brightest Diamond) and Becky Stark (of Lavender Diamond). |
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Boston Herald - Found Oct. 6, 2009 ... the band is being augmented for the new material by vocalists Shara Worden (of My Brightest Diamond) and Becky Stark (of Lavender Diamond). |
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Orlando Sentinel - Found Oct. 2, 2009 Even the odd, but faithful, tear through Heart?s 'Crazy on You' looked like fun as Worden and vocalist Becky Stark let loose one more time. |
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Tulsa World - Found Oct. 1, 2009 ... is a fantasy-filled tale also includes cameos from My Morning Jacket's Jim James, Lavender Diamond's Becky Stark and My Brightest Diamond's... |
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Becky Stark
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| Background information | |
| Birth name | Rebecca Ann Stark |
| Born | 1976 Culver City, California, U.S. |
| Origin | California, U.S. |
| Genres | Indie rock, folk, punk |
| Instruments | Vocals | Drums | Guitar | Tambourine |
| Years active | 2004 - present (Lavender Diamond) |
| Labels | Matador, Rough Trade, Cold Sweat |
| Associated acts | Mystical Unionists Living Sisters The Decemberists |
Becky Stark is an artist, singer, songwriter and entertainer from Los Angeles, California. She is the voice of the band Lavender Diamond. She was raised in Maryland where she began performing as a child. At the age of 13 she travelled to the former Soviet Union as part of a U.S. State Department- Sponsored Peace Mission, a travelling musical about peaceful ecology. For four years in junior high school she was the co-host and head reporter for the weekly children's television news magazine KIds' Point of View Television-KPOV'TV - a half hour show broadcast weekly between the WWF and the Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling. At 18 she starred in the feature film Willa, An American Snow White for PBS. Throughout high school she studied classical singing and learned an extensive repertoire of classical, popular and jazz songs.
She studied Comparative Literature (English and Russian) and Art/Semiotics at Brown University. In Providence she was part of the Fort Thunder art movement and formed a theater troupe with artist and filmmaker Xander Marro. The two created a travelling operetta called Birdsongs of the Bauharoque, a fairytale fable about peace coming to planet Earth. They toured the U.S. and Canada for two months with their punk puppet opera.
After college she became a full-time student at the Merce Cunningham Dance Conservatory in Manhattan where she studied modern dance. Seeking a warmer climate she moved to Los Angeles and became immersed in the music, comedy, film and cabaret scenes. She performed a comical variety of jobs including magician's assistant. She appeared in High School Record- an underground favorite at the 2005 Sundance Film Festival. In the film she plays the teacher of students from the LA bands No Age, Mika Miko, Silver Daggers and others. She has created and performed numerous folk story operettas, including an adaptation of the Little Match Girl. She appeared in the original production of acclaimed New Wave opera visionary Ruth Margraff's The Cry Pitch Carols.
She is considered a luminary of the new folk movement and the LA underground punk/noise scene. She has performed extensively as a solo artist and leader of the Lavender Diamond band. She has shared a bill with Miranda July, Jenny Lewis, David Byrne, John Waters, Dave Eggers, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Decemberists, Beck, The New Pornographers, Devendra Banhart and hundreds of others. She has been compared to Linda Rondstadt, Joni Mitchell, Karen Carpenter, Julie Andrews, Kate Bush and Lucille Ball. She has received widespread critical acclaim, appearing in the November Vanity Fair "Folk Music Heroes" portfolio by Annie Leibovitz on the page between Joni Mitchell and Judy Collins. In addition to her work with Lavender Diamond she sings with The Living Sisters, a folk trio with Eleni Mandell and Inara George from the Bird and the Bee.
The 2007 Lavender Diamond album Imagine Our Love was released on Matador and Rough Trade Records. A film to accompany the album is currently in production in IMAX format with director Maximilla Lukacs and art director Alia Penner. The film is an extravaganza featuring Busby Berkeley- style dance numbers, animation and interplanetary ballet.
In 2008 Stark wrote the Songs of the Believers for the upcoming film City of Ember starring Bill Murray, directed by Gil Kenan and produced by Tom Hanks. The film is a post-apocalyptic-action-adventure story for children. In the film Becky plays the Songmaster. She also stars in an upcoming short film version of a short story from Miranda July's book "No one Belongs Here More Than You." Based on the story, "Birthmark", the short is called "White Light". Kim Gordon and Liz Goldwyn also star in the film directed by Alia Raza. 1
Stark appeared onstage as the musical guest in Daily Show creator Ben Karlin's new variety show, singing with Zooey Deschanel and accompanied by okgo. She is creating a new musical comedy variety show with Jim Drain, Miranda July, Jennifer Johnson, Paper Rad, Peter Glantz, Tunde Adebimpe from TV on the Radio and many other artists.
She is co-author of the Peace Comics with cartoonist Ron Rege, Jr., the drummer in Lavender Diamond. She and Ron Rege have a band together, The Mystical Unionists.
She appears as a character/vocalist on The Decemberists' 2009 concept album The Hazards of Love.2 She and the band performed the official live debut of the album at the 2009 South by Southwest Festival.3 She plays the character Margaret and sings on the tracks "Won't Want for Love (Margaret in the Taiga)","Isn't It a Lovely Night?", "The Abduction of Margaret", and "The Hazards of Love 4 (The Drowned)."
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