Heavy Metal Genealogy: Tawny Kitaen — From Uzbekistan to Stardom

Heather Quinlan
6 min readMay 9, 2021
Tawny Kitaen and David Coverdale | George Rose/Getty Images

If there’s one thing that all kinds of metal fans can agree with it’s that Tawny Kitaen was a the supreme metal babe. And actually, she was more than that, she was an equal of David Coverdale in terms of hair and sex presence. (Is that a term? If it is, it definitely applies to them.) Tawny nailed an interpretive dance accompaniment to a glam rock song, with her acrobatic and…

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Heather Quinlan

I write about making movies, watching movies, heavy metal family trees, cemeteries, death, books, and whatever else I can fit on this fongool bio.