Inara George

Inara Maryland George was born in Baltimore, Maryland. At the time, her late father, Lowell George, was recording the Little Feat album, Feats Don't Fail Me Now. He died of a heart attack on June 29, 1979 at age 34. She grew up in the Topanga Canyon area of Los Angeles and tried ballet, studied acting, and appeared in stage productions at the outdoor Will Geer Theatricum Botanicum. In 1993, Inara, Gabriel Cowan, Robin Moxey, and Lonn Baker, friends from high school, formed a band called Lode. The band and their mixtures of blues and grunge sounds toured California and Colorado, along with the House of Blues in West Hollywood. They went on to win a contract with the Geffen label and released the album Legs & Arms in 1996. The record made no major impact on pop sales charts. With ambitions of becoming a Shakespearean actress, George spent three semesters as a student at Emerson College in Boston. Soon, she began writing songs with thoughts of returning to the music scene. She soon pai