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Sisters June and Jean Millington moved with their family from the Philippines to Sacramento, California, in 1961. They began to play music together on ukuleles, which helped them gain friends. In high school they formed an all-female band called the Svelts with June on guitar, Jean on bass, Addie Lee on guitar, and Brie Brandt on drums. Brandt ...
Jean Millington, Brie Howard, and June Millington of Fanny Walked the Earth, circa 2018. (Photo: Marita Madeloni) And so, June quit the band in 1973.
As Jean Millington, she and her sister June Millington started the band Fanny after playing high school events around Sacramento as The Svelts in the 1960s. Adamian suffered a stroke in recent ...
June Elizabeth Millington (born April 14, 1948) is a Filipina-American guitarist, songwriter, producer, educator, and actress.. Millington was the founder of the music groups the Svelts and Wild Honey, before becoming co-founder and lead guitarist of the all-female rock band Fanny, which was active from 1970 to 1974.
Jean Millington-Adamian – bass guitar, vocals; June Millington – guitar, vocals; Additional personnel "Mustang" Sherry Barnett – backing vocals; Dave Darling – additional guitar, keyboards, mixing, production; Zackary Darling – audio engineering; Alice DeBuhr – double drums; Wendy Haas-Mull – Hammond B3 organ, backing vocals
In 1969, the rock band Wild Honey, featuring sisters Jean and June Millington, bass and guitar, respectively, and drummer Alice de Buhr, were spotted by producer Richard Perry's secretary. Perry arranged a trial session at Wally Heider Studios and concluded, "This is a band that needs to be recorded."
In the late 1960s, Barclay joined the collective of session musicians known as the Musicians Contact Service in Los Angeles.In January 1970, she was asked to join the all-female rock group Fanny as a singer and keyboardist. [2]
In 2016, Howard-Darling joined a live performance by her former Fanny bandmates June and Jean Millington. This inspired the formation of a new band called Fanny Walked the Earth. An album of all-new songs with the same title was released in March 2018. The album marks the first time June, Jean, and Brie all recorded at the same time in over 40 ...