Adele Bertei is an American singer, writer, artist, and director. An original member of the Contortions, she was Brian Eno's assistant, duringnthe recordingn of the seminal No New York LP.  She later founded the Bloods, the first openly queer all-women  band, starred in Lizzie Borden’s Born in Flames, and had a wide-ranging career writing and recording for artists including Thomas Dolby, Tears for Fear, Culture Club, and Whitney Houston. Her most recent books include  Universal Mother, Sinéad O'Connor (2025), and No New York: A Memoir of No Wave and the Women Who Shaped the Scene (2026).