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Dale Frances Bozzio (née Consalvi; born March 2, 1955) is an American rock music and pop music vocalist. She is best known as co-founder and Lead vocalist of the 1980s new wave band Missing Persons and for her work with Frank Zappa. While with Zappa, she performed significant roles in two of his major works, Joe's Garage (1979) and Thing-Fish (1984). Bozzio has released four solo albums and one Extended play.
She co-founded Missing Persons in 1980 with former Zappa musicians Warren Cuccurullo and Terry Bozzio (her husband from 1979 to 1986). In addition to being the band's lead vocalist, she also contributed lyrics. Missing Persons released one Extended play and six albums, including Spring Session M (1982), which achieved gold record status.
After Missing Persons disbanded in 1986, Bozzio was signed to Prince's Paisley Park label, which released her first solo album, Riot in English (1988). Bozzio later reformed Missing Persons and continues to perform the band's repertoire at venues across the United States. She also occasionally performs in reunions of the original band and continues her work as a solo artist. In 2014, Bozzio signed to Cleopatra Records and released a new studio album titled Missing in Action. During the summer of 2014, she signed with GRA Records for a new album to be produced by Stephan DeReine.
In 1976, Bozzio traveled to Playboy Mansion in Los Angeles at the request of Hugh Hefner to interview for a position as a Valentine party hostess.Chris Cordani "Interview with Dale Bozzio" Revenge of the 80s Radio June 27, 2008. The opportunity provided for both a continuing relationship with Playboy and for living arrangements in Los Angeles, where she could pursue an acting career. Bozzio rejected the offer. Shortly after, she met and gained employment with Frank Zappa.
Bozzio posed nude for Hustler in an edition published in February 1985.Patrick Goldstein, A Missing Person Is Found In The Nude, LA Times, January 6, 1985
Dale woke up two weeks later in Frank Zappa's living room to Moon Unit Zappa playing the harp. This was just weeks after she finished Joe's Garage with Zappa. Dale was blind and suffering a concussion.
Dale was relocated to a hospital in Boston on life support, where she remained for more than six months, under the watchful eye of her father. To the surprise of doctors, she did not die from blood clots and recovered.
Immediately after her recovery, Frank Zappa invited Dale to join him on a European tour, which she accepted.
According to Dale, the incident inspired lyrics to Destination Unknown (song), "Windows", and other songs she did with Missing Persons.
Dale says she forgives her perpetrator.
Bozzio's voice can also be heard in the 1979 film Baby Snakes and in the single "I Don't Wanna Get Drafted" (1980), a criticism of the U.S. military draft policy at that time. "I Don't Wanna Get Drafted" was also included on the album The Lost Episodes (1996). "Review, Lost Episodes" The AllMusic Guide
In 1984, Bozzio was cast in Zappa's musical Thing-Fish. In voicing the part of Rhonda, she played opposite her real-life husband at the time, Terry Bozzio, who voiced the character Harry, Rhonda's husband. In Thing-Fish, Bozzio articulated some of the album's topics such as feminism, female sexuality, Yuppie, and the state of Broadway theatre.
In November 1991, participating along with other alumni in Zappa's 50th birthday tribute concert, Zappa's Universe, Dale revised the words in her recitation of her lines in "Packard Goose" to, "Music...and Frank Zappa...are the best." "Frank Zappa" classicbands.com para 20
Bozzio continued to record and perform after the breakup of the original Missing Persons band. During the early 1990s, she toured with her own group using the band name and performing Missing Persons songs. In June 2005, Missing Persons featuring Dale Bozzio appeared on week five of the NBC show Hit Me Baby One More Time. "Episode Detail: Hit Me Baby One More Time - Hit Me Baby One More Time" Hit Me Baby One More Time 2005 Season 1 Episode 5, TV Guide retrieved November 22, 2012
Dale and Missing Persons were referenced in season 2 of the CW TV network show iZombie in 2015. A recurring character played by Jessica Harmon is FBI agent Dale Bozzio, who works on missing persons cases.
Missing Persons released their first album of completely original material in 37 years, Hollywood Lie, on November 10, 2023.
New Wave Sessions was released on October 9, 2007, on compact disc by Cleopatra Records. The album included new versions of the Missing Persons hits "Words" and "Destination Unknown", and covers of the 1980s songs "Funkytown", "Der Kommissar", "Turning Japanese", "I Know What Boys Like", and "Girls Just Wanna Have Fun".
In 2010, Bozzio's Make Love Not War album and Talk Talk EP was released on Electrik Blue Records.
In 2014, Bozzio's Missing in Action was released on Cleopatra Records.
In 2020, she released her second solo album as Missing Persons titled Dreaming. It mostly covers classic rock/pop songs from the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s.
Her influence was behind Gelvin Guitars SSM guitar they made specifically for her with a Spring Session M theme to it.
In 2009, she was convicted of animal cruelty after several dead and malnourished cats were found at her home in Ossipee, New Hampshire while she was touring with her band; she claimed that the caretaker she had hired to stay at her house did not arrive.http://thephoenix.com/Boston/News/81321-Dale-Bozzios-life-is-so-strange/ Dale Bozzio's Life is so Strange], The Boston Phoenix, May 27 2009. She was sentenced to 30 days in jail and 250 hours of community service, barred from keeping pets, and ordered to pay a $2700 euthanization bill.Rigazio, Ashley. "Dale Bozzio sentenced to jail", The Boston Phoenix, May 27 2009. Retrieved on 3 August 2015.
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