Janey Greene
Played By: Helena Bonham Carter
Voice: Heart
Birthdate & Age: March 3, 1962, 47 years
Residence: Seattle, Washington
Screen name: gun for janey
Biography: Born in Seattle two years before The Beatles burst into American households everywhere, Janey Greene was raised in a typical, suburban family. She's the second born out of four, but consequently the only female. Edward Greene, her father, was a war veteran and while deployed, learned the play the guitar as a way to take away the harsh reality around him. The instrument was automatically infiltrated in his family, but it was Janey who took her love to an obsession. At the age of fifteen, her father booked her a three-song set at a nearby Seattle bar even though she was underage. The fates had their way with Janey that night and a Capitol Records representative signed her on the spot. "Janey's playing was like nothing I'd ever heard before. At such a young age and at the risk of sounding sexist, she was the best [expletive] woman I'd ever heard play rock & roll," James Kirby of Capitol later remarked. Kirby wasn't the only one to notice. In less than a year, Janey had released her first album. The music scene was blown away by the young teenager behind the full, strong voice and expert guitar licks. Seven studio albums later, Janey had crossed boundaries of hard rock, folk and the power ballads of the 1980s. After only a few months of dating, Janey and Hell Broke Loose frontman Nolan Ward announced their intentions of marriage. Although very young, their love wasn't a typical whirlwind. Fame had matured them both significantly to take marriage as serious as their love. In 1985 and without a single tear in her eye, Janey announced she was seven months pregnant and would be stepping back to raise her daughter. Since recording for her final album had already begun, Janey paused until Eden MiddleName entered the world and released Squin's final album Heart in 1986. Not able to step away completely from music, Greene opened her own recording studio, Bad Animals. She and Eden followed Daddy on tour, while learning everything she could for her latest trade. After a brutal and obnoxiously public divorce, Janey and Eden stepped out of the limelight forever. Such Seattle locals as R.E.M, Pearl Jam, Alice in Chains, Per Diem and Behold! The Nightmare have all used Bad Animals Studios to house their recording process. Squin was begged to revive, go on tour and remind the world of Greene's talent but each time she refused until 2003, when her daughter had decided to create her own career. With Eden at the age of nineteen, Janey felt she could finally give into the demands. A ten-city tour was all she gave the world and a single live album came out of the mix, recorded in her hometown. Thirty years later and with 30 million albums sold, Janey Greene of Squin was listed as VH1's 37th Greatest Hard Rock Artist of all time. In the 2008 election, Republican nominee Sen. John McCain used Squin's song "Barracuda" without permission and even donned his running mate, Sarah Barracuda Palin. Enraged, Janey publicly forced McCain to remove her song from his campaign and announced her support of the Democratic candidate, Sen. Obama.
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