Stan Ridgway

Multi-instrumentalist singer-songwriter Stanard Q. "Stan" Ridgway (born April 5, 1954 in Barstow, California) was the original lead singer for the band Wall of Voodoo, singing on their debut EP

Multi-instrumentalist singer-songwriter Stanard Q. "Stan" Ridgway (born April 5, 1954 in Barstow, California) was the original lead singer for the band Wall of Voodoo, singing on their debut EP and first two albums, including the hit song "Mexican Radio". Ridgway left the band in 1983, shortly after the band's appearance at the US Festival. After collaborating on the song "Don't Box Me In" with Stewart Copeland for the soundtrack to the film Rumble Fish (1983), he released his first proper solo album, "The Big Heat" (1986), which included the top 5 European hit "Camouflage".

Since the early days of Wall of Voodoo (which was originally conceived as a venture to create music for low-budget horror movies) Ridgway has been interested in music for cinema. A list of films for which Ridgway has written scores and/or original songs is included below. Ridgway's album "Holiday in Dirt" was a quasi-cinematic project, with the release of the album accompaned by a showing of 14 short films by various independent film makers, each film corresponding to one of the songs on the album. A compilation DVD of the films was released in February 2005.