Kingston Rossdale, Gwen Stefani, Apollo Rossdale and Zuma Rossdale in October 2023. Emma McIntyre/Getty Photographs
Gwen Stefani gave her 10-year-old son Apollo a historical past lesson when he requested about her upcoming music gig at Coachella.
“I needed to actually lay in mattress with Apollo and he’s like, ‘However mother, what’s Coachella? Everybody’s saying it. What is that this? It sounds prefer it’s a giant deal,’” Gwen, 54, recalled to Folks on Friday, January 26. (The “Hollaback Woman” singer shares sons Kingston, 17, Zuma, 15, and Apollo with ex-husband Gavin Rossdale.)
“So we needed to watch the ‘Don’t Communicate’ video, and he’s like, ‘However wait, which one was your boyfriend?’ It was so bizarre and so humorous. I actually needed to inform him every band member,” she stated, referring to her ex boyfriend and band member Tony Kanal.
Gwen is about to reunite together with her No Doubt bandmates at Coachella in April, greater than a decade for the reason that band’s final hiatus. Days earlier than the music pageant’s official announcement, the band sparked reunion rumors after they obtained on a video chat and teased an upcoming efficiency.
Gavin Rossdale and Gwen Stefani’s gang! The previous couple welcomed three sons earlier than splitting in 2015. The exes started courting in 1995, getting married seven years later in London. The duo went on to welcome Kingston in 2006, adopted by Zuma and Apollo in 2008 and 2014, respectively. The No Doubt singer filed for divorce […]
“I’ll do a present! Do you wish to do a present?” Gwen requested Kanal, 53, and different members Adrian Younger and Tom Dumont. (She cofounded No Doubt in 1986 together with her brother Eric Stefani, who left the band in 1995, and John Spence, who died by suicide in 1987. Kanal, Younger, 54, and Dumont, 56, joined the group earlier than their debut document was launched in 1992.)
No Doubt in 1999. Sam Levi/WireImage
The band turned fashionable all through the Nineties with Gwen rising because the group’s breakout star. Gwen has continued to pursue her personal music profession, releasing 4 solo albums since 2004.
No Doubt final hit the street in 2012 for his or her Seven Evening Stand tour, however went on an official hiatus the next yr. Whereas Gwen was seemingly by no means against a No Doubt reunion, she beforehand expressed uncertainty about whether or not that was potential.
The brand new yr remains to be younger, however the calendar is already filled with music festivals showcasing artists of all genres — and drawing within the greatest celebs. Pageant season is often characterised abruptly collaborations, main vogue moments and controversy, and 2024 will seemingly be no completely different. From Boston to L.A., dozens of various occasions […]
“I don’t know what’s going to occur with No Doubt. When Tony and I are linked creatively, it’s magic. However I feel we’ve grown aside so far as what sort of music we wish to make,” she defined to Rolling Stone in 2016. “I used to be actually drained and burned out after we recorded [2012’s Push and Shove]. And I had a variety of guilt: ‘I’ve to do it.’ That’s not the proper setting to make music. There’s some actually nice writing on that document. However the manufacturing felt actually conflicted. It was unhappy how all of us waited that lengthy to place one thing out and it didn’t get heard.”
