Dana Fuchs (pronounced Fyooks) (born January 10, 1976) is an American singer and songwriter. 　　The youngest of six children, Fuchs was born in New Jersey and raised in the small rural town of Wildwood, Florida. When she was twelve, she sang in the First Baptist Gospel Choir.Her father was an alcoholic and her grandfather committed suicide. At an early age she liked to perform. She participated in drama class and in a guitar group in her early teens. She began using illegal drugs, dropped out of school, left home, and worked as a stripper. In debt to drug dealers, she moved to New York City, where she worked as a legal secretary before returning to stripping. She entered psychotherapy and group meetings. Shortly after, her sister, an alcoholic and drug addict, committed suicide.