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Belinda Jo Carlisle (born August 17, 1958) is a Grammy Award-nominated American singer. Carlisle gained worldwide fame as the lead vocalist of The Go-Go's, who made history by becoming the first all-female music group that wrote their own songs and played their own instruments to top the Billboard charts, and is considered by some to be the most successful all-female band of all time. With them she sold more than seven million albums, and after leaving the band in 1985 went on to a solo career that spawned hits such as "Heaven Is a Place on Earth", which topped the charts internationally including in the United States and United Kingdom.

Carlisle was born in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, to parents Harold and Joanne. Harold was a contractor, and Joanne raised the children at home. Belinda was the first of seven children, with three brothers (Butch, Joe and Josh) and three sisters (Hope, Mary and Sarah). Her father left home when Belinda was five years old. Her mother later remarried, but Carlisle was not close to her step father. She grew up in Thousand Oaks, California, at school she became a cheerleader. She graduated from Newbury Park High School. At the age of 19, she left home with the confidence that one day she would be a star.

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