Joey Belladonna was born Joey Bellardini on October 13, 1960 in Oswego, New York. He is part Native American, from modern-day Canada, on his mother’s side, who is Iroquois, and part Italian American.
Joey is mainly known as a vocalist, but is also known to play drums.
Bands
Joey has been the vocalist for his solo band, Belladonna, and has been the vocalist for Anthrax.
Albums
Joey has released 6 solo albums as the vocalist of his solo band, simply called Belladonna The albums are Belladonna, Spells of Fear, 03, Artifacts 1, Artifacts 2, and Deadly Night Shade. Belladonna was released in 1995. Spells of Fear was released in 1998. 03 was released in 2003. Artifacts 1 was released in 2004.
Joey has been the vocalist on 5 full lengthalbums and 4 EPs with Anthrax. These were all studio albums. The full length albums are Spreading the Disease, Among the Living, State of Euphoria, Persistence of Time, and Worship Music. The EPs are Armed and Dangerous, I’m the Man, Penikufesin, and Attack of the Killer B’s. Spreading the Disease was released in October of 1985, Among the Living was released on March 22, 1987. State of Euphoria was released on September 18, 1998. Persistence of Time was released on August 21, 1990. Worship music was released on September 12, 2011. Armed and Dangerous was released in 1985. I’m the Man was released in 1987. Penikufesin was released in 1989. Attack of the Killer B’s was released in 1991.
Tours
Joey toured around the world, in 2008, with his solo band. There were 65 cities on the tour, around the world. I have a concert t-shirt I bought at the Fort Worth, TX show that has all of these dates on the back. The tour dates and cities are below.
April 1, 2008 in Depew, NY at Rock n Roll Heaven
April 2, 2008 in Albany, NY at Jack Rabbit Slims
April 3, 2008 in Columbus, OH at Underworld Concert Club
April 4, 2008 in Imperial, PA at The Lighthouse
April 6, 2008 in Cincinnati, OH at The Blue Note
April 8, 2008 in Kansas City, MO at The Riot Room on Broadway
April 9, 2008 in Denver, CO at Kings Tavern
April 11, 2008 in Yucaipa, CA at Angel’s Roadhouse (My concert shirt shows this as the city for this concert date. I found conflicting information on metalunderground.com. Yucaipa.blogspot.com confirms this city and venue on this date.)
April 12, 2008 in Apple Valley, CA at Angel’s Roadhouse 2 (More conflicting information from Blabbermouth.net.)
April 12, 2008 in Riverside, CA at Tremors (ditto, see above.)
April 13, 2008 in Flagstaff, AZ at The Museum Club
April 14, 2008 in Tucson, AZ at Club Congress
April 15, 2008 in San Marcos, CA
April 16, 2008 in Modesto, CA at Fat Cat
April 18, 2008 in Seattle, WA at Studio Seven
April 19, 2008 in Victoria, Canada at Element Nightclub
April 20, 2008 in Vancouver, B.C., Canada at The Cobalt
April 22, 2008 in Salt Lake City, UT at Club Vegas
April 23, 2008 in Farmington, NM at Big City Night Club
April 24, 2008 in Fort Worth, TX at Rock Star Sports Bar. I bought a concert shirt at this show that has many of the tour dates and cities on it. I’m not sure about the complete accuracy of this information.
April 25, 2008 in Houston, TX at Acadia Bar
April 26, 2008 in San Antonio, TX at Rosedale
April 27, 2008 in Oklahoma City, OK at The Conservatory
April 28, 2008 in Springfield, MO
April 29, 2008 in Tulsa, OK at The Other Side Event Center
April 30, 2008 in Nashville, TN at The Muse
May 1, 2008 in Springfield, VA at Jaxx
May 2, 2008 in Myrtle Beach, SC at Sound Garden
May 3, 2008 in Trenton, NJ at Championship Sports Bar and Grill
May 5, 2008 in Minneapolis, MN
May 6, 2008 in Green Bay, WI
May 7, 2008 in Aurora, IL at Doug’s Place
May 8, 2008 in Milwaukee, WI at Vnuks
May 8, 2008 in Cudahy, WI
May 9, 2008 in Chicago, IL
May 10, 2008 in Parma, OH at Jigsaw Saloon
May 11, 2008 in Chillicothe, OH at Cardo’s
May 13, 2008 in Brooklyn, NY
May 17, 2008 in Yonkers, NY at The Haunt
May 18, 2008 in Hamilton, ON, Canada
May 19, 2008 in Toronto, ON, Canada at The Big Bop Concert Hall
May 20, 2008 in Ottawa, Canada
May 21, 2008 in Montreal, QC, Canada
May 22, 2008 in Kingston, ON, Canada
May 25, 2008 in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada at The Marquee
May 26, 2008 in Moncton, NB, Canada
June 5, 2008 in Mexico City, Mexico
June 12, 2008 in Sao Paolo, Brazil
June 13, 2008 in Buenos Aires, Argentina
June 14, 2008 in Santiago, Chile
June 19, 2008 in Wantagh, NY
June 20, 2008 in Poughkeepsie, NY
June 21, 2008 in Hartford, CT
June 23, 2008 in Raleigh, NC
June 25, 2008 in Murfreesboro, NC
June 26, 2008 in Charlotte, NC
June 28, 2008 in Staten Island, NY
July 19, 2008 in Clifton, NJ
September 19, 2008 in Glasgow, Scotland
September 20, 2008 in Grimsby, South UK
September 24, 2008 in Dudley, Midlands UK
September 26, 2008 in London, UK
October 2, 2008 in Oslo, Norway
October 3, 2008 in Lillehammer, Norway
October 4, 2008 in Jevnaker, Norway
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