Colleen Fitzpatrick Jpeg

Colleen Fitzpatrick Jpeg Colleen Ann Fitzpatrick (her friends call her “C”) was born on the 20th July 1972, in Old Bridge, New Jersey. Colleen is the youngest of three children, Her father is a communications-executive and her mother is a legal secretary. For those of you wondering, “My natural hair colour is blondish, brownish, reddish. I have always been dying my hair as long as I have lived. I have been every single colour. Hair is a good accessory. It will always grow back, you can't screw it up too badly” ;-) When she was just 7 years old she started dance lessons to correct her feet because she had “pigeon toes”. She ended up loving dancing, and by the age of 13 she was dancing professionally. She began to write songs and poetry at the age of 16, saying “I actually wanted to write songs more than I wanted to sing because I felt like I had something to say. I used to get all these pent up emotions and I didn't know what to do with them, so I wrote poems. Music was really important to me, like when I had crushes on guys or was doing bad in school, and music meant so much to me that I wanted to express myself through music.” She learned how to play the guitar and the piano. Her first song was written when she was annoyed at her parents for punishing her unfairly. Today, she can play a bit of the bass, the drums, guitar and piano, although she says it’s just “enough to write”.She joined a lot of rock bands, but none of them lasted. “It’s funny, but I always found no matter what band I was in, even if it had a slightly more frayed edge to it, I was drawn to the more tongue in cheek elements, but it always had to have that edge." Colleen appeared in John Waters highly acclaimed film, Hairspray. They wanted a dancer, and Colleen was happy to oblige! Funnily enough, Colleen’s mother in the film is Deborah Harry who fronts the band Blondie. And who, later on, Colleen is most compared to! ENTER HERE