Former morgue attendant Andy Prieboy replaced Stan Ridgway as the lead singer of Wall of Voodoo after Ridgway left the band in 1983. 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... Wall of Voodoo was a New Wave group from Los Angeles best known for the 1983 hit Mexican Radio. ...
The company used Prieboy as a scapegoat, eventually suing the artist to cover the son's drug expenditures, which led to a long bout of litigation that forced Prieboy to lose ownership of his songs -- he was eventually acquitted.
Prieboy's string of bad luck took a turn at a party in Los Angeles where a met an extremely drunk Bruce Moreland -- bass player for Wall of Voodoo -- who asked him to join the band as the replacement for recently departed lead singer Stan Ridgway.
In 1995 Prieboy's masterpiece was released: the sprawling Sins of Our Fathers, which took on the record industry, psychotic ex-lovers, and religion with a wit and precision that established Prieboy as a true underground hero.
Andy was the singer/composer/musician who replaced Stan Ridgeway as lead vocalist of Wall of Voodoo.
Andy is a truly unique songwriter and I'm sad that he hasn't released more stuff (his one full length album, from which the song "Montezuma" is excerpted, has Thunes on the whole thing).
AndyPrieboy provided several songs for the soundtrack of this peculiar film (available on video and occasionally visible on pay TV) which were sung by none other than Jennifer Beals of "Flashdance" fame.
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