Kira Roessler

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Name = Kira Roessler


Img_capt = Kira Roessler performing as part of Dos, 2002
(Mike Watt in background)
Background = solo_singer
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Alias = Kira
Born = birth date and age|1961|6|12
New Haven, Connecticut
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Instrument = Bass, vocals
Genre = Punk rock, Alternative rock, Hardcore punk
Occupation = Musician, Dialogue editor
Years_active = 1975 - present
Label = SST Records New Alliance Records Kill Rock Stars
Associated_acts = Twisted Roots, Sexsick, Black Flag, Dos
URL = [http://www.hootpage.com/hoot_dos.html Dos' homepage at Mike Watt's Hoot Page]
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Kira Roessler (born June 12 1961) is an American musician and dialogue editor. She replaced Chuck Dukowski as bass player in Black Flag. She is sister to The Screamers' keyboardist Paul Roessler. She joined when the band heard her sitting in with L.A. punk group DC3. Before joining Black Flag, she was majoring in applied engineering at UCLA (subsequent tours were worked around her school schedule, which was a condition for her to join the band). Her bass playing was featured on five of Black Flag's studio albums. She remained in the band until completing touring behind their "In My Head" album in the autumn of 1985, then graduated UCLA in 1986.

After Black Flag, she formed the two-bass duo Dos with Mike Watt (to whom she was married between 1987 and 1994), and contributed material to what would be the Minutemen's final album, "3-Way Tie (For Last)", and to Watt's post-Minutemen band fIREHOSE. She later contributed some artwork to Watt's first solo album "Ball-Hog or Tugboat?".

Roessler now works as a dialogue editor on theatrical films in Los Angeles. She has credits (sometimes under her full name, sometimes simply as "kira") on such films as "Confessions of a Dangerous Mind" (2002), "Under the Tuscan Sun" (2003), and "ATL" (2006), and has also appeared onscreen in the documentaries ' and "American Hardcore". She appeared on the ' tribute album in 2003 along with other musical artists, including other Black Flag veterans.

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