A young and lively Gwen Stefani moved into the music spotlight in 1987 as the sexy lead singer for the band No Doubt. One of her main hits in the '90s with the cross-mixed group of ska-punk and new wave style was a single called "Don't Speak," one of the tracks from No Doubt's Grammy chosen third album Tragic Kingdom. The video for "Don't Speak," a play on inner jealousy in a band, accumulate plenty of play on MTV, giving the group and its lead singer a chance to reach even more fans.

Gwen Stefani was born and raised in the impressive sunshine of Southern California. Others shared musical talent in her family, counting her brother Eric Stefani. When he and a friend, singer John Spence, put jointly a new band called No Doubt in 1987, of course Gwen was brought in as co-singer with Spence. That same year, Spence ended his life by suicide, leaving a saddened teenage Gwen to step up to the microphone alone. Throughout those first hard years in the group, playing gigs where ever they could, Gwen Stefani someway managed to finish high school and enter college without missing a beat. Other members of No Doubt are guitarist Tom Dumont, drummer Adrian Young, and bassist Tony Kanal. The latter would become Gwen's love interest for a number of years.

In 1992, after signing with Interscope Records, No Doubt released its self-titled debut album. When the record label didn't like the numbers that came in from that primary album, they wouldn't agree to back a second. refuse to give in, even though her brother Eric left, Gwen Stefani and the other band members put up money of their own in 1995 to record a sophomore album called The Beacon Street Collection. Gwen Stefani kept up the hard work, and soon she and the Gwen Stefani band had Interscope's full attention again, and were working on another album, Tragic Kingdom. The old proverb about the third time being the charm, proved true, and there was not anything tragic to be found in this third offering. The Grammy nominated album hit number one on the Billboard charts, and three of its tracks charted as well, counting "Spiderwebs" and "Just a Girl." Another full-length album, Return of Saturn, appeared in 2000 with Gwen Stefani still taking her spot in front at the microphone, where Gwen Stefani seems to shine her best. According to the April 2004 issue of Vogue, her father Dennis is Italian and her mother Patti is of Irish and Scottish descent. Stefani was on her High School swim team.

Gwen Stefani has one sister, Jill and two brothers, Eric and Todd. Eric was the keyboardist for No Doubt. Gwen Stefani was voted one of People magazines 50 Most good-looking People of 2004. She met her husband Gavin McGregor Rossdale (Bush) in 1996 at a concert she was playing with her band No Doubt. They are married since 14 September 2002. Gwen Stefani has a her own fashion label named L.A.M.B. which goes on sale in Spring 2004