In 2007, Gossip joined the multi-artist line-up of the True Colors Tour, the profits of which benefited the Human Rights Campaign. The title track was written as a protest against the Bush administration’s stance on gay marriage. Gossip’s third studio album, Standing in the Way of Control, achieved gold record status in the United Kingdom. Drummer Hannah Blilie then joined the group, and the word “the” was dropped from the band’s name. After the Gossip’s first live album, Undead in NYC (2003), Mendonca left the band to pursue a different career.
The band’s first album, That’s Not What I Heard, was released in 2001, followed by EP Arkansas Heat (2002), and a second studio album, Movement (2003). The Gossip gained acclaim after playing Ladyfest, a feminist event in Olympia, and was profiled in Time magazine in a feature covering the event in 2000. In 1999, the Gossip released its first recording and began a tour with rock band Sleater-Kinney. The three were roommates in Olympia, and Howdeshell and Mendonca had played in a band together in Searcy. Members of the band included guitarist Nathan Howdeshell, drummer Kathy Mendonca, and Ditto. After graduating from high school, Ditto left Arkansas to join the feminist punk scene of Olympia, Washington, where the Gossip formed in 1999.
She was raised by a single mother, Velmyra Estel, and grew up in Judsonia (White County), near Searcy (White County) she did not know her father and was given the last name of the man who helped raise her, Homer Ditto. Ditto is also known for being a model and fashion designer who promotes positive body image, as well as for her outspoken support of LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender) rights. In 2006, she became the first woman voted “Coolest Person in Rock” by NME, a long-running British music magazine. She also released her first solo album in 2017.īeth Ditto was born Mary Beth Patterson on February 19, 1981. Released in June 2017, the album found Ditto embracing her Southern roots as well as the punk, pop, and disco she'd explored with the Gossip.White County native Beth Ditto achieved renown as the singer and songwriter for Gossip, an indie, dance-punk band based in Portland, Oregon, before pursuing a solo career in music and acting. Ditto returned to music with the single "Fire," which appeared on her debut solo record Fake Sugar. That year, the Gossip also released their sixth and final album, Joyful Noise the group disbanded in 2015 when Howdeshell returned to Arkansas.
In 2012, Ditto released her memoir, Coal to Diamonds, which she co-wrote with Michelle Tea. Ditto also had her own advice column in British broadsheet The Guardian, launched a campaign to ban the clothing size "zero", and formed supergroup Crisis with Paul Weller and Graham Coxon to raise money for a homeless charity. After providing guest vocals on records by Calvin Johnson ("Lightning Rod for Jesus"), Simian Mobile Disco ("Cruel Intentions"), and Jarvis Cocker (a duet cover version of Heaven 17's "Temptation"), she released her solo self-titled EP in 2011. Ditto's larger-than-life, uncompromising image turned her into a fashion icon, a development which resulted in her opening Jean Paul Gaultier's Spring Collection at 2010's Paris Fashion Week, and creating her own collection for U.K. After being named "the coolest person in rock" by NME, one of three publications she posed nude for (alongside erotica magazine On Our Backs and London style bible Love), the band broke through to the mainstream with their third album's title track, "Standing in the Way of Control," written by Ditto as a response to the U.S. Born Mary Beth Patterson in 1981, she grew up in a tiny house in Searcy, Arkansas before moving to Washington at the age of 18, where she teamed up with guitarist Nathan Howdeshell (aka Brace Paine) and drummer Hannah Blilie to form the Gossip. First known as the non-conformist lead singer of the Gossip, Beth Ditto became just as famous for challenging the perceptions of female beauty and sexuality as she did for her spellbindingly raw voice.
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