Happy birthday to twin sisters Kim and Kelley Deal who are also bandmates in The Breeders. The band dates to 1989 when Kim and Tonya Donnelly formed the group as a side project. Kim was a member of the Pixies and Tonya was in Throwing Muses.
In 1993 the Pixies broke up and Kim took on the Breeders as her full-time project. Timed perfectly to cash in on the growing interest in alt rock, the band’s 1993 album Last Splash was their biggest commercial success. Cannonball, a single from the album, rose to number 2 on the modern rock charts and the album reached platinum sales status.
It was the peak for the band. Soon both sisters were in rehab after Kelly was involved in a drug bust and the band was on indefinite hiatus.
In 1996 Kim Deal revived the Breeders using personnel from her interim band the Amps. Kelly Deal rejoined in 1997 and the band reconfigured once again in preparation for recording their comeback album Title Tk. Around the same time Kim Deal was involved in a Pixies reunion, touring North America and Europe.
In 2012 the Breeders reunited their lineup from Last Splash to coincide with a twentieth anniversary re-release of the hit album and since then the group has occasionally released new music.
Kim Deal was the subject of two tribute songs recorded in the 90s by the D
