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Birth name | Maureen Ann Tucker |
Also known as | Moe Tucker |
Born | Jackson Heights, Queens, New York City, U.S. | August 26, 1944
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Years active | 1963–c. 2007; 2017 |
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Maureen Ann "Moe" Tucker (born August 26, 1944)[1] is an American musician and singer-songwriter, best known as the drummer of the New York City-based rock band the Velvet Underground. After the band disbanded in the early 1970s, she left the music industry for a while, though her music career restarted in the 1980s, and continued into the 1990s. She has released four solo albums, where she played most of the instruments herself, with frequent guest appearances by her former Velvet Underground bandmates and others, and has periodically toured. Tucker was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1996 as a member of the Velvet Underground.