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On September 30, 2015, River's siblings Summer, Joaquin, Liberty, Rain and their mother Arlyn Phoenix appeared together for a rare public occasion, at the 35th PETA Anniversary Party in Hollywood. They were there to present to the first River Phoenix Humanitarian Award to filmmaker Saun Monson.
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In September 2019, Rain and Summer started LaunchLeft, "a space for famed creatives to launch the next wave of creative rebels". The first podcasts featured :
LaunchLeft is available on most streaming platforms and Youtube.
You can also follow them on Instagram.
For River fans, it's worth mentioning that so far, music videos of 3 of Aleka's Attic's songs have been added to the Music section of Launchleft's website.
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Rain (also known as Rainbow), born 1973, performs as both an actress and a singer, contributing on vocals and songwriting for Aleka's Attic, the band created by her brother River. Rain seems to have given up her acting career in favor of her activity with her band Papercranes. She is also part of The Citizens Band. Since 2014, she's also part of new band Venus and the Moon, along with Frally Hynes (sometimes collaborating with Chris Stills). They performed with Jennifer Turner at 16th annual Sundance ASCAP Music Café. She's pretty active on social medias, to promote both her artistic endeavours and her charity work. She often plays with other musicians for kids in hospital, and contributes to The Art of Elysium sessions. Like her sister Summer, she participated to Style Like U project "What's Underneath".
September 2019 : New solo album "River" Official website to order and pre-order the CD, limited edition vinyle and merchandising.
Articles : You can find her updated filmography on the IMBD (Internet Movie Database - link below). Other works : Music Video : "At my most beautiful" by R.E.M. (1999), directed by Nigel Dick - who also directed River in the 1986 music video of "Stand By Me". Rain stars as the cellist. Check out R.E.M. 's official website to see the video excerpt.
Songs / musical performances Rain contributes to (in addition to Aleka's Attic's entry on the music page)
Rain also performed as a backup singer on stage with the Red Hot Chili Pepper in the mid 90es.
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Joaquin was born in 1974. He was credited as "Leaf Phoenix" in his early years. He has built a long and successful acting career with acclaimed directors. He briefly pretended to give up on acting to pursue a career in hip-hop, but this 2-years long experience turned out to be an acting performance for Casey Affleck's mock-documentary "I'm Still Here".
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Liberty was born in 1976. Liberty has stopped acting early. Her most known artistic endeavor seemed to be a participation to a country band. It's then pretty difficult to come across public information about her, apart from the fact that she has raised a family. She founded the INDIGOGreenStore for non-toxic house materials for building and decoration, in Gainesville, after a personal tragedy.
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Summer was born in 1978. Her acting career reached a peek in 2000-2001, when she landed the lead role in French movie "Esther Kahn", then in "Suzie Gold", and played Ryan Gosling's girlfriend in "The Believer" (that received a prize at the 2002 Sundance Festival). She explained her absence from screens afterwards in this video interview on Style like U, for the What's Underneath Project, promoting self-acceptance. Apparently, coming back to movie business after her pregnancy was not as easy as she naively thought (she calls herself naive in the video, not my word). Summer's entry on Style Like U Facebook page.
In 2003, Summer associated with two friends, Odessa Whitmire and Ruby Canner, to open a vintage clothes shop in New York, Some Odd Rubies. 2010 video : Designers Summer Phoenix & Ruby Canner of Some Odd Rubies She apparently put her acting career on hiatus a little lately, to focus on her other activities and her family. She's been expanding the activity of Some Odd Rubies with Ruby Canner with a line of clothes designed for the store and sold online. Ruby and Summer both modeled on the website store. In 2013, they closed the NYC store to open this webstore, but it seems closed too now. She's still active on Instagram. Summer plays the mother of two in Fiona Godivier's short movie Across My Land. The short movie was in competition at the 2017 Cannes Film Festival for Cannes Short Film Special Distinction category, and Summer attended the festival with the director.
Notable performances:
Other works : Music Video : "Eat My Dust, You Insensitive Fuck" by Catherine Wheel (1995)
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Monster, by R.E.M. Rain Phoenix sings on the track "Bang and Blame" of that album, dedicated to River.
