Amedeo and Simone Pace were born in Milan , Italy , and grew up in Montreal ( Saint-Léonard ), but later moved to Boston to study jazz . After earning Bachelor’s degrees , they entered the New York City underground music scene. Blonde Redhead formed in New York in 1993 after Amedeo and Simone met Kazu Makino, a film student at the time, through mutual friends. John Lurie stated in his memoir that he introduced the twins to Kazu, a long time friend. The band named themselves after a song on the 1981 EP A Taste of DNA by the no wave group DNA . For the group’s first decade, Amedeo and Makino were romantically involved.
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