Abby Travis is an American musician, songwriter, and performer. She is the daughter of Alice Travis Germond, the current Secretary of the Democratic National Committee

Democratic National Committee

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 and Emmy award winning cameraman Larry Travis.

Abby Travis began her performance career in 1986 as the bassist in Los Angeles band The Lovedolls, who were spawned from the cult films Desperate Teenage Lovedolls and "Lovedolls Superstar" directed by Dave Markey

Dave Markey

Dave Markey is an American film director.As a self-taught filmmaker and musician, Markey directed, produced, edited, and photographed most of his films, the majority of which has been self-funded and distributed. His work documents the punk scene in Southern California throughout the 1980s and 1990s...

. In 1989 Travis joined power pop trio The Rails. In 1993 Travis began working as a bass player for hire. She has toured, recorded, or both with Vanessa Paradis

Vanessa Paradis

Vanessa Chantal Paradis is a French singer, model and actress. She became a child star at 14 with the worldwide success of her single "Joe le taxi"...

, Beck

Beck

Beck Hansen is an American musician, singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, known by the stage name Beck...

, Elastica

Elastica

Elastica were an English alternative rock band that played punk rock-influenced music. They were best known for their 1995 album Elastica, which produced singles that charted in the US and the UK.-History:...

, Michael Penn, Exene Cervenka

Exene Cervenka

Exene Cervenka is an American writer, musician and artist, most famous as the co-lead vocalist of the Los Angeles punk rock band X.-Career:...

's Original Sinners, Gibby Haynes and His Problem, KMFDM

KMFDM

KMFDM is an industrial band led by German multi-instrumentalist Sascha Konietzko, who founded the group in 1984 as a performance art project...

, The Meat Puppets, El Vez, and The Bangles

The Bangles

The Bangles are an American all-female band that originated in the early 1980s, scoring several hit singles during the decade.-Formation and early years :...

 among others.

Much of Travis' solo work is released as The Abby Travis Foundation. To date she has released 3 solo albums: The Abby Travis Foundation (1998), Cutthroat Standards & Black Pop (2000), and GlitterMouth (2006).

Personal life

Abby's mother, Alice Travis Germond, is married to journalist Jack Germond

Jack Germond

Jack Worthen Germond is an American journalist, author, and pundit. -Life and career:Germond was born in Boston, Massachusetts, an only child and raised in a striving middle-class household in Boston and Trenton, New Jersey. When he was 13, his family moved to Mississippi, and then to Baton Rouge,...

. Abby's brother is musician Dave Travis.
Abby currently resides in Los Angeles, California

Los Angeles, California

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.

Career Highlights

2011

• Lulu single released
• Music video for Lightning Squared released, directed and animated by Ursula Hitler.
• Music video for One Hit Wonder released, directed by Fibbleypush Frinkledenk.

2010

• Don't Walk Away single released
• Rosetta single released
• Lightning Squared single released
• Bassist for Masters of Reality (tour)
• Touring bassist for Eagles of Death Metal
  Eagles of Death Metal
  Eagles of Death Metal is an American rock band from Palm Desert, California, formed in 1998 by Jesse Hughes and Josh Homme. Despite their band name, Eagles of Death Metal are not a death metal band. Hughes stated that a friend was introducing Josh Homme to the death metal genre...
  
  
• Cover of Velvet Underground's "New Age" out on "America Velvet " tribute album

2009

• catalogue adapted for the musical "Little Black Veil" written by David LeBarron.
• Vocals on Shira and Safia (Botanica/ Americanundone)

2006

• Glitter Mouth - released
• Bass on Light Years Kathy Valentine
  Kathy Valentine
  Kathy Valentine is the American bass guitarist for the all-girl rock band, The Go-Go's....
  
  
• Now Was" music video released, directed by Rocky Schenck.
• Shoot for the Stars music video released, directed and animated by Travis.

2005

• Solo Cholo (Kid Cong Powers) vocals and bass on "You Hang The Moon For Me", vocals on "Power" (Credited as Botanica)
• Touring bassist for The Bangles
  The Bangles
  The Bangles are an American all-female band that originated in the early 1980s, scoring several hit singles during the decade.-Formation and early years :...
  
   (through 2008)
• Touring bassist for Tito & Tarantula
  Tito & Tarantula
  Tito & Tarantula are a chicano rock band formed in Hollywood California in 1992. The band is best known for its songs, "After Dark", "Back to the House That Love Built", "Strange Face of Love", and "Angry Cockroaches", as well as for its role in Robert Rodriguez's film From Dusk Till Dawn as the...
  
  

2004

• produced "Stomping Back On Fire" Brian Grillo / Spitshine Records
• Bassist for Original Sinners (Exene Cervenka)
• Touring bassist for Gibby Haines and His Problem (Butthole Surefers Singer)
• created and promoted her nightclub "Mata Hari" which took place at Tangier in Los Feliz. Travis hosted the night and frequently did two sets (Cabaret and full band) along a bevy of musical guests including: Rebekah Del Rio
  Rebekah Del Rio
  Rebekah Del Rio is a Latin American singer/songwriter from San Diego, California.After recording the song "Llorando", a Spanish-language version of Roy Orbison's "Crying," she moved to Nashville in 1994. There, she was signed to Irving Azoff's label, Giant Records, and recorded her first album,...
  
  , Mink Stole
  Mink Stole
  Nancy Paine Stoll better known by the stage name Mink Stole, is an American actress from Baltimore, Maryland. She began her career working for director John Waters, having appeared in all of his feature films to date...
  
  , Ann Magnuson
  Ann Magnuson
  Ann Magnuson is an American actress, performance artist, and nightclub performer who first gained prominence in the 1985 film Desperately Seeking Susan...
  
  , Jane Wiedlin
  Jane Wiedlin
  Jane Marie Genevieve Wiedlin is an American musician, singer-songwriter, and actress. She is best known as the rhythm guitarist of the all-female New Wave band The Go-Go's.-Early life:...
  
   (through 2005)

2003

• Performed "God If Any Only Knows" with Kristian Hoffman
  Kristian Hoffman
  Kristian Hoffman is an American musician. His sister is writer Nina Kiriki Hoffman.-History:Singer/songwriter Kristian Hoffman first emerged during the late 1970s as songwriter and keyboardist for New York City cult favorite the Mumps, and was also an active figure in the No Wave, performing...
  
   on his release "&"

2002

• Played Bass on "With All Seven Fingers" Botanica
  Botánica
  A botánica is a retail store that sells folk medicine, religious candles and statuary, amulets, and other products regarded as magical or as alternative medicine...
  
  

2001

• Cutthroat Standards & Black Pop Tour- Abby Travis accompanied by Kristian Hoffman
• Through 2002 - Bassist in The Glitter Gangster All Stars (House band at Club Make Up @ El Rey Theater - backing up performers including Dee Dee Ramone
  Dee Dee Ramone
  Dee Dee Ramone was an American songwriter and musician, best known as founding member, bassist and main songwriter of the punk rock band the Ramones....
  
  , Cherie Currie
  Cherie Currie
  Cherie Currie is an American singer, actress and chainsaw artist. Currie was the lead vocalist of The Runaways, a hard rock band from Los Angeles in the mid-to-late 1970s.-Life and career:...
  
  , Jackie Beat
  Jackie Beat
  Jackie Beat is the drag persona of actor, singer, songwriter and screenwriter Kent Fuher. Beat has appeared in a number of independent feature films both in and out of drag, including Wigstock: The Movie, Flawless and Adam & Steve...
  
  , Alexis Arquette
  Alexis Arquette
  Alexis Arquette is an American trans woman, actress, musician, and cabaret performer.-Early life:...
  
  )

2000

• Bassist on "Broken Bicycles" Botanica New Coat of Paint- songs of Tom Waits
  Tom Waits
  Thomas Alan "Tom" Waits is an American singer-songwriter, composer, and actor. Waits has a distinctive voice, described by critic Daniel Durchholz as sounding "like it was soaked in a vat of bourbon, left hanging in the smokehouse for a few months, and then taken outside and run over with a car."...
  
    Album
• Cutthroat Standards & Black Pop released
• Music video for Everything's Wonderful released, directed by Dave Markey.

• 1999 Back up vocals on "You Love Me" Meat Puppets EP
• 1998 Botanica
  Botánica
  A botánica is a retail store that sells folk medicine, religious candles and statuary, amulets, and other products regarded as magical or as alternative medicine...
  
   tour with Abby Travis opening shows (solo performances)
• 1997 KMFDM
  KMFDM
  KMFDM is an industrial band led by German multi-instrumentalist Sascha Konietzko, who founded the group in 1984 as a performance art project...
  
   Symbols released (Travis co-wrote "Waste" and  "Down and Out" and played bass on several tracks)
• 1997 The Abby Travis Foundation released
• 1996 Bassist for Elastica
• 1995 Bassist for Beck and Elastica on Lollapallooza tour
• 1993 Bassist for Vanessa Paradis Natural High tour (France)
• 1992 Performed with Spinal Tap
  Spinal Tap (band)
  Spinal Tap is a parody heavy metal band that first appeared on a failed 1979 ABC TV sketch comedy pilot called "The T.V. Show", starring Rob Reiner...
  
  during their Break like the Wind tour as "Promethia Pendragon"
• 1989 Bassist for The Rails (through 2002)
• 1986 Bassist The Lovedolls - Spawned from Dave Markey's cult films Desperate Teenage Lovedolls and Lovedolls superstar. (through 1989)