Coco Hayley Gordon Moore

Coco Hayley Gordon Moore (born July 1, 1994) is the daughter of Sonic Youth's husband-and-wife team of bassist/vocalist Kim Gordon and guitarist/vocalist Thurston Moore. Named after French fasion designer Coco Chanel and actress Hayley Mills, Gordon became pregnant with Coco during the sessions for Sonic Youth's Experimental Jet Set, Trash and No Star album in 1993. Gordon's belly had barely started to show with Coco when the band filmed a promo video for the album's first single, "Bull in the Heather". A rare television appearance by the band on The Late Show with David Letterman to promote the album revealed Gordon to be late in the third trimester with Coco, who was born not long afterward.

Although Coco has only just recently begun to display publicly any musical talents that may have been inherited from her parents, she did make her recorded debut long before she turned one year old — a sample of her crying can be heard on "E-Ticket Ride", an album track on Mike Watt's 1995 album Ball-Hog or Tugboat?. She also appears on Sonic Youth's SYR4: Goodbye 20th Century double album, screaming a cover of Yoko Ono's "Piece for Soprano".

In 2002, Coco made a cameo in Sonic Youth's promotional video for "The Empty Page", which was co-directed by her father. She also appears on the cover of Murray Street, the album featuring that song.

In 2006, Coco appeared with her parents in the season 6 finale of the TV series Gilmore Girls, miming bass on "What a Waste", a track from Sonic Youth's 2006 album Rather Ripped.

In April 2007 she appeared in a Dinosaur Jr. video alongside her father.

In June 2007, a recording of the first live show performed by Lightbulb, Coco's band, was released by heresee records. Coco appeared on vocals and guitar under the moniker Coko Mo. The show was recorded live at P.A.C.E. in Easthampton, Massachusetts on May 20th, 2006.

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