Candy Stubborn

Candy (AKA Candy Stubborn, AKA Chuckles the Clown) is a punk, artist, musician, photographer, gardener, bartender, and animal lover.She grew up in an intolerant small town in Idaho, where as a kid she discovered punk through her older sister Sonia, local college radio show Mutant Pop, and her first time seeing ShaNaNa on TV. The first punk show Candy went to, high on cough syrup, was Youth of Today in 1986 (or maybe it was Government Issue?)Candy moved to Eastern Washington in 1987, Olympia in 1988, and then to the East Bay in 1992 (or was it ‘93?) where she lived, squatted, and couch surfed several punk houses.She met her soul mate, Justin, in 1996 and a year later moved to Bellingham, WA to start a band, a life, and yes, a new punk house, together. After a few fun years ripping shit up together they moved to Portland, where they have been living and playing music together ever since. They finally tied the knot in 2011.Candy has performed, toured, and recorded in such bands as The Flatulence, Annie and Candy Clutz, Gimmie Pigs, Transplants 86ed, Candy and the Hot Dice, the Problems, Triggers, Sleepwalkers R.I.P., Dark/Light, and Era Bleak. She has been clean and sober for 8 years this March.