By Tennille Ayers
FROM WIKIPEDIA COMMONS
Vivienne Patricia Scialfa (/ˈskælfə/ SKAL-fə; born July 29, 1953) is an American singer-songwriter and guitarist. Scialfa has been a member of the E Street Band since 1984 and has been married to Bruce Springsteen since 1991. In 2014, Scialfa was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of the E Street Band.
While in college at the University of Miami and later at New York University, Scialfa began recording original music for other artists. However, none of her songs were recorded.
After her college graduation, she worked as a busker and waitress in Greenwich Village. Together with Soozie Tyrell and Lisa Lowell, she formed a street group known as Trickster. For many years, she struggled to make her way in the songwriting and recording industry in New York City and New Jersey before playing at Folk City and Kenny’s Castaways in Greenwich Village and The Stone Pony in Asbury Park, New Jersey. Scialfa had a brief role in The Stone Pony’s house band Cats on a Smooth Surface. These gigs won her notice and, eventually, recording work with Southside Johnny and David Johansen.
Scialfa first met Bruce Springsteen in the early 1980s at The Stone Pony, a music venue and bar in Asbury Park, New Jersey, where Springsteen and his band regularly played. In 1984, Scialfa postponed recording her solo record to join Springsteen’s Born in the U.S.A. Tour. After the tour, Scialfa started a short-term relationship with actor Tom Cruise.
In August 1988, Springsteen’s first wife Julianne Phillips filed for divorce, and Scialfa and Springsteen started living together afterward in New Jersey and later in New York City before relocating to Los Angeles, where they started a family. Springsteen and Phillips’s divorce was finalized in 1989.
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Born
- John Sargent Pillsbury (manufacturer) –
- Booth Tarkington (author) –
- William Powell (actor) –
- Edwin O’Connor (novelist) –
- Norma Lyon (fourth butter cow sculptor of the Iowa State Fair) –
- Paul Taylor (dancer) –
- Nancy Landon Kassebaum Baker (politician) –
- Elizabeth Dole (government official) –
- Peter Jennings (journalist) –
- Ken Burns (filmmaker) –
- Martina McBride (singer) –
- Wil Wheaton (actor) –
- Stephen Dorff (actor) –
- Josh Radnor (actor) –
- Allison Mack (actress) –
Died
- Vincent van Gogh (Dutch artist ) –
- Mama Cass Elliot (singer) –
- David Niven (actor) –
- Jerome Robbins (choreographer) –
- Tom Snyder (talk show host) –
Events
- The Spanish Armada was defeated by an English naval force off the coast of Gravelines, France –
- The Pittsburgh Gazette became the first newspaper published west of the Allegheny Mountains –
- Annibale de Gasparis discovered asteroid 15 Eunomia –
- First successful transcontinental telephone call –
- Lightning caused a deadly fire in Cochrane and Matheson, Ontario –
- President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed the National Aeronautics and Space Act of 1958 establishing the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) –
- Schooner Bluenose II was donated to Nova Scotia –
- First Chicken Wing Day, Buffalo, New York –
- Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer married at St. Paul’s in London, England –
- Bill Mueller of the Boston Red Sox became the first baseball player in major league history to hit grand slams from both sides of the plate in one game –
- 184-pound wahoo caught, Cabo San Lucas, Mexico –
- A 5.4-magnitude earthquake shook Los Angeles, California –
- A pair of Winston Churchill’s wartime dentures sold at auction for approximately $23,750 –
- Rare panda triplets born at the Chimelong Safari Park in Guangzhou, China –
Weather
- Four inches of rain fell on Tucson, Arizona, causing thousands of dollars in damage –
- Barnet, Vermont, reported a morning low of 33 degrees F, with frost appearing on vegetation –
- St. Johnsbury, Vermont, had a low temperature of 42 degrees F –
- Greeley, Colorado, received 6 to 7.5 inches of rain in eight hours –
- Thermometers in Oymyakon, Eastern Siberia (considered one of the coldest places on Earth) recorded 90 degrees F in the evening –
- Moscow had a record temperature of 100 degrees F –
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