Susanna Hoffs

Susanna Hoffs
Hoffs performing in 2006
Born	Susanna Lee Hoffs (1959-01-17) January 17, 1959 (age 65) Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Alma mater	University of California, Berkeley (BA)
Occupations	Singer musician songwriter actress author
Years active	1978–present
Known for	"Manic Monday" "Eternal Flame" "My Side of the Bed" "Walking Down Your Street" "In Your Room" "If She Knew What She Wants"
Spouse	Jay Roach ​ (m. 1993)​
Children	2
Parents	Tamar Simon Hoffs Joshua Allen Hoffs
Musical career
Genres	Rock pop
Instrument(s)	Vocals guitar
Formerly of	The Bangles Ming Tea
Musical artist
Website	susannahoffs.com

Susanna Lee Hoffs (born January 17, 1959) is an American singer-songwriter and actress. She, Debbi Peterson, and Vicki Peterson founded the Bangles in 1981. They released their first album All Over the Place on Columbia Records in 1984. Their second album, Different Light, contained the US number two single "Manic Monday" and number one single "Walk Like an Egyptian". The group's third album, Everything (1988), included the US top-ten charting "In Your Room" and number one "Eternal Flame", both written by Hoffs with Billy Steinberg and Tom Kelly. Following tensions and resentment of Hoffs's perceived leadership, the band split in 1989, reformed in 1999, and released the albums Doll Revolution (2003) and Sweetheart of the Sun (2011).

Hoffs appeared in the films Stony Island (1978) and The Haircut (1982), both written by her mother, Tamar Simon Hoffs. She starred in the comedy movie The Allnighter (1987), directed by her mother, which was a commercial and critical failure.^[1][2] Her first solo album, When You're a Boy (1991), was followed by Susanna Hoffs (1996). Neither of the releases proved to be as popular as the Bangles' albums, although they yielded two charting singles in the US, the Top-40 hit "My Side of the Bed", and "All I Want". She later recorded several songs for movies, and formed the faux British 1960s band Ming Tea with Mike Myers and Matthew Sweet, which performed in all three Austin Powers movies. Hoffs teamed with Sweet to produce three albums of cover songs. Her next solo album Someday (2012) was followed by the cover albums Bright Lights (2021) and The Deep End (2023).

Hoffs's first novel, This Bird Has Flown, a romantic comedy about a struggling musician, was published by Little Brown in 2023. It received favorable reviews, and Universal Pictures purchased the rights to the novel for a screen adaptation.