The Killer Barbies

Biography

Silvia Superstar (real name: Silvia García Pintos) and Billy King (real name: Antonio Domínguez) formed The Killer Barbies in 1994, and quickly began releasing their material on the Spanish label Toxic Records. They released their first album Dressed to Kiss in 1995. One year later they released a second album ...Only for Freaks! shortly after featuring in the Jess Franco movie Killer Barbys. They recorded a third album in 1998, Big Muff. The three albums sold more than 10,000 copies each.

After these three successful albums in Spain, the band signed to the German label Drakkar Records, to get a larger audience outside Spain. In 2000 they released their international debut Bad Taste containing a selection of songs from their first three albums re-recorded. In 2002 they released the single Candy featuring a vocal participation of Bela B. of Die Ärzte fame and eventually some new material with the album Sin Is In in 2003. Since then they have been silent except for the compilation of b-sides Freakshow in 2004. The same year, Silvia Superstar was featured in the Show "Die drei ??? und die singende Schlange" by the German comedy theater company Das Vollplaybacktheater.

Singles and EPs

Albums

Songs from compilations

Films

The band features as the main characters of two movies directed by Jess Franco: Killer Barbys, which was made in relation to their first album Dressed to Kiss in 1996, and Killer Barbys vs. Dracula, made in relation to their last album to date, Sin Is In in 2003. The spelling was changed in the movies because Mattel would not let them use the Barbie name.

Appearance in video games