Axella Johannesson

One of the first "music cyber stars", due to the ability to distribute her music primarily via the Internet, Australian Singer/songwriter Axella Johannesson was born 11 January 1958 in Mount Vernon, New York, United States. Johannesson's family moved to Selden, New York in 1963, as part of the great exodus to the suburbs. She later moved to the Smithtown area with her mother and sister, when her parents divorced. "Things were kind of weird back then," she said in a 2002 radio interview on Gippland FM. "I'd attended six schools by fourth grade." Her mother remarried and the family settled in St James, NY. Before she reached her teens, Johannesson became both a vegetarian and an avowed atheist , and remains so to this day. Johannesson...