She played bass for Clown Alley[1] and for the sludge metal band Melvins.
Her father was the businessman Charles Alden Black and her mother was Shirley Temple, the popular 1930s child actress who became a diplomat in adulthood.
She is the second child of businessman Charles Black and Shirley Temple.
[2] She has a half sister, Susan, and a brother, Charles Alden Black Jr.[3] With grunge pioneers Melvins on hiatus since late 1987, bassist Matt Lukin left the band to form Mudhoney.
At the time, Melvins frontman Buzz Osborne was dating Black, and the idea developed to have her play bass for the band.