Nymphs singer Inger Lorre has died on the age of 61. The information was confirmed in a press release launched by her label, Kitten Robotic Information.
“We’re saddened to say goodbye to our beloved buddy and artist Inger Lorre,” wrote the label. “Inger, born Lori Ann Wening, handed on October 16 from issues as a result of lately identified most cancers. Her mom, Lois Wening, had additionally handed on October 4; each are confirmed by Jen Wening, Inger’s sister.
“Inger was an completed singer, songwriter, recording artist, painter and a lover of animals. A singularly distinctive artist, each visually and musically, Inger first got here to nationwide consideration together with her band Nymphs, whose self-titled LP was launched by Geffen Information in 1991.
“Her profession as a solo artist started with Transcendental Treatment‘ launched by Triple X in 1999. Kitten Robotic launched her ultimate album, Gloryland, simply final yr. Our condolences exit to Jen and her household and to her many mates and followers.”
Lorre was born in Matawan, New Jersey, in 1963, the place she shaped the Nymphs within the early Nineteen Eighties. The band moved to Los Angeles and caught the eye of Tom Zutaut, the A&R man who signed Weapons N’ Roses to Geffen and Mötley Crüe to Elektra.
Zutaut, who described Lorre as possessing “extra ardour than any feminine singer I’ve ever heard” and was satisfied she could be a star, signed the band to Geffen earlier than growing a famously fractious relationship with the singer. The Nymphs’ self-titled first album – described as “astounding, enthralling, horrifying, and empowering” by Traditional Rock – got here out in October 1991, with an EP, A Sensible Information to Astral Projection, launched the next yr.
Battling psychological well being points and habit, Lorre was fired by the band in late 1992. She would go on to document with Jeff Buckley – singing Angel Mine with him on the Jack Kerouac tribute album Kicks Pleasure Darkness, and once more on Thief With out The Take, which appeared on her 1999 debut solo album Transcendental Treatment. Additionally on that album was She’s Not Your Pal, a track dissing Courtney Love, who’d included an answering machine message from Inger on Sassy, from Gap’s 1991 album Fairly On The Inside.
Lorre’s subsequent album, Dwell At The Viper Room, did not arrive till 2017, and her first studio album in 24 years, Glorybound, was launched final yr, after a protracted journey and self-discovery and self-improvement.
“It was actually the followers that introduced me again, as a result of I’m nonetheless afraid of the trade, the company machine,” Lorre informed Traditional Rock. “However you’ve obtained to maintain it constructive as a result of the world is so freakin’ darkish proper now. I felt like I wanted to assist heal a few of the disappointment. It was local weather change and covid, everybody was committing suicide, everybody on fentanyl. I don’t know if the world has ever been in a darker place. However there’s one thing about it the place I simply wanted to carry on to hope.
“I assumed I used to be utterly forgotten, only a has-been practice wreck, drug-addled loser that the trade had spit out. This has given me a complete new purpose to stay. I’ve all the time had a plan, and I haven’t got one now. I suppose that’s the brand new plan. Simply no matter life throws up. All alternatives are open, and we’ll take all of the alternatives.”
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