Kat Bjelland
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Katherine Lynne Bjelland is an American former musician. She rose to prominence as the lead singer, guitarist, and songwriter of the alternative rock band Babes in Toyland, which she formed in 1987. S
Bjelland performing with Babes in Toyland in Groningen, Netherlands, 1991
Bjelland in Minneapolis, 1992
Bjelland performing at Primavera Sound with Babes in Toyland, 2015
Bjelland (right) learned to play guitar from her uncle, David Higginbotham (center), a local musician in Kat's hometown of Woodburn, Oregon
Courtney Love
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Courtney Michelle Love is an American singer, guitarist, songwriter, and actress. A figure in the alternative and grunge scenes of the 1990s, Love has had a career spanning four decades. She rose to p
Kat Bjelland
…of Oregon at age nineteen, Bjelland relocated to Portland, where she became involved in the city's punk rock scene. There, she became friends with Courtney Love, and formed the band Pagan Babies. After the dissolution of Pagan Babies in 1985, Bjelland relocated to Minneapolis, where she formed Babes in Toyland…
Love in 2025
Love in a publicity headshot for Straight to Hell, 1986
Love performing with Hole, 1989
Love performing with Hole at Big Day Out, Melbourne, 1995