Brittany Denaro (born February 2, 1985), best known as Britt Lightning, is the

lead guitar Lead guitar (also known as solo guitar) is a musical part for a guitar in which the guitarist plays melody lines, instrumental fill passages, guitar solos, and occasionally, some riffs and chords within a song structure. The lead is the featur ...

ist for the band

Vixen Foxes are small to medium-sized, omnivorous mammals belonging to several genera of the family Canidae. They have a flattened skull, upright, triangular ears, a pointed, slightly upturned snout, and a long bushy tail (or ''brush''). Twelve sp ...

. From 2004 to 2011, Lightning performed in Jaded, an all-female hard rock based in

Boston Boston (), officially the City of Boston, is the state capital and most populous city of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, as well as the cultural and financial center of the New England region of the United States. It is the 24th- mo ...

. The band released two albums, the latter including tracks produced by producer

Gary Katz Gary Katz is an American record producer, best known for his work on albums by Steely Dan. Katz has also produced numerous other recording artists and assisted in the discovery and signing of a number of subsequently successful acts. Career ...

(

Steely Dan Steely Dan is an American rock band founded in 1971 in New York by Walter Becker (guitars, bass, backing vocals) and Donald Fagen (keyboards, lead vocals). Initially the band had a stable lineup, but in 1974, Becker and Fagen retired from live ...

). Jaded was a staple band in the Locobazooka, Rock 101 and

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festivals, and the

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Expos. In 2006, the band toured Europe in support of W.A.S.P. In 2011, Lightning joined the New York-based rock musical ''Chix6'' as the character and guitar player "Lick", which ran at the

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. From 2012 to 2015, Lightning performed for 18-time Grammy Award-winning artist

Alejandro Sanz Alejandro Sánchez Pizarro, better known as Alejandro Sanz (; born 18 December 1968), is a Spanish musician, singer and composer. Sanz has won 22 Latin Grammy Awards and four Grammy Awards. He has received the Latin Grammy for Latin Grammy Awar ...

in his stadium-level world tour, supporting his album ''

La Música No Se Toca ''La Música No Se Toca'' (English: The music is not played) is the tenth studio album recorded by Spanish singer-songwriter Alejandro Sanz. It was produced by himself alongside Colombian Grammy award winner Julio C. Reyes. It was released by Uni ...

'', which reached number one on the Mexican Top Album, Spanish Top Album, and

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US Latin Top Album and Top Album charts. Lightning is featured in Sanz's ''La Música No Se Toca - En Vivo'' CD/DVD. She joined Sanz at the 2013

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s in

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performing the single " No Me Compares". In 2013, Lightning performed on ''

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'' with

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to promote his album ''

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''. From 2015 to 2016, Lightning was the guitarist for

Rachel Platten Rachel Ashley Platten (born May 20, 1981) is an American singer-songwriter and author. After releasing two albums independently in 2003 and 2011, she signed with Columbia Records in 2015 and released her mainstream debut single, "Fight Song", w ...

, performing at festivals and on various national television and radio specials and programs. She performed alongside Platten to promote the single "

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" (which charted at No. 6 on the

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chart), live on ''

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'', the ''Today'' Show, ''Live with Kelly and Michael'', VH1, the 2015

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and on the 2016 finale of ''

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'', which took place at

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. In 2017, Lightning replaced

Gina Stile Gina Tagliente (born January 19, 1965), better known as Gina Stile, is an American former guitarist. She was lead guitar player of the reformed female hard rock band, Vixen, from 1997 to 1998 and 2013 until her departure from the band in March ...

as the guitarist in the all-female American rock band

, the only all-female hard rock band from the 1980s to sell over one million albums, have six number one videos on MTV and enter four songs on ''Billboard''s Top 100. In addition to Vixen, Lightning has performed with Paradise Kitty, a female

Guns N' Roses Guns N' Roses is an American hard rock band from Los Angeles, California, formed in 1985. When they signed to Geffen Records in 1986, the band comprised vocalist Axl Rose, lead guitarist Slash, rhythm guitarist Izzy Stradlin, bassist Duff McKa ...

cover band.

References

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