  Born in
New Delhi, India, to a pair of boarding-school
teenagers, Bif Naked was adopted by American
missionaries and moved to Minneapolis. Several
other moves preceded her eventual settling in
Winnipeg where she enrolled at the University of
Winnipeg as an aspiring drama major. At this
time, she also joined Jungle Milk, an eclectic
troupe of musicians, and married the act's
drummer. The marriage was short-lived, but it led
to her becoming the frontwoman of Gorilla
Gorilla, a punk outfit for which her husband also
drummed. It was a tumultuous situation and,
although she remained with the act as they
relocated to Vancouver, Bif Naked eventually quit
to join another punk act, Chrome Dog. There was a
brief association with Dying to Be Violent before
she finally released an independent solo EP, Four
Songs and a Poem, in 1994. She inked a deal with
Concrete Records and an eponymous, full-length
release soon followed. When the label went under,
Bif Naked regained the masters and, in 1996,
reissued the album through her own Her Royal
Majesty's Records imprint. On the strength of
that record, and the ferocity of her live
performances and ceaseless touring, she snagged a
deal with Lava and, in 1998, I Bificus was
released. The record was critically well-received
and managed to get some attention with the track
"Moment of Weakness," aided by a
memorable, energetic video clip. Purge followed
in 2001, but the American release was delayed as
the first single, "I Love Myself
Today," became a smash hit in Canada. After
over a year's wait, the album finally came out in
the US in the fall of 2002. The Essentially Naked
retrospective appeared in 2004 before Bif Naked
returned with Superbeautifulmonster in
September 2005. (Tom Demalon, All Music Guide)
She was diagnosed with a heart
aneurysm, but corrective surgery was ruled out.
Her song "Everyday," from her album
Superbeautifulmonster, is in part a response to
that experience. Bif married her drummer, became
pregnant, and later had an abortion. She wrote
the song "Chotee" afterwards, with
lyrics such as "So long my baby...".
However, her song "Moment of Weakness"
was about a man she vacationed with in Mexico.
Bif married Vancouver Sun sports writer Ian
Walker in a traditional church ceremony in
Vancouver on September 29, 2007. In January 2008,
she announced that she had been diagnosed with
breast cancer, and is scheduled for a lumpectomy,
to be followed by chemotherapy. Bif Naked blogs
on MySpace about politics, her personal life, and
dealing with cancer. (Wikipedia 2009)
Bif Naked appears in the fourth
season of Buffy in the third episode The
Harsh Light Of Day performing three songs.
Bif Naked is expected to return to music with a
new album, The Promise, sometime in
2009.
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