Overview
Pearl Aday (born 1975) is an American singer. She is the adopted daughter of vocalist Michael Lee Aday, better known as Meat Loaf, and was a member of his touring band Neverland Express for nine years starting in the mid-1990s. She has appeared on numerous albums and in various tours and television performances with her father, both as backing singer and in duets. She has also been a backing singer for Mötley Crüe. She is currently the lead singer of her own band "Pearl" and has released her debut album on Megaforce/RED/Sony Music on January 19, 2010. Aday also co-organized the hard rock group Motor Sister with her husband Scott Ian, singing backing vocals.
Early life
Aday was born to Leslie G. Edmonds and Clark Pierson, who was a drummer in singer Janis Joplin's group, Full Tilt Boogie Band. She was adopted by Meat Loaf as a young child, after his marriage to Leslie. Pearl has a half sister named Amanda Aday.
Aday attended High School in Redding, Connecticut graduating from Joel Barlow High School in 1993. Her senior year she was the lead in the Senior Class Play How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying. Aday went to Emerson College in Boston, Massachusetts, majoring in creative writing, but shortly thereafter began a music career.
Career
In 1994, she was a backing singer for Meat Loaf's 1994 Everything Louder summer tour promoting the album Bat out of Hell II, as well as the follow-up tour in 1996, Born to Rock. She was a member of her father's backing band when they performed at the inaugural ball in 1997 for Bill Clinton. She became a full-fledged member of Neverland Express, Meat Loaf's touring band, from 1998-2003. In 2003, she sang on Meat Loaf's album Couldn't Have Said It Better on the duet "Man of Steel." On October 31, 2007, Pearl supported Meat Loaf one concert on his Seize the Night tour.
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