Los Angeles, February 26 – The drummer of Foo Fighters, Dave Grohl, revealed that he "had no idea" his daughter had signed a record deal until she told him about it over dinner.
Violet began releasing new music in January, and later announced that she had signed with Republic Records/Island EMI, but Foo Fighters frontman Dave, 57, has insisted that he is not involved in the making of her music, according to ‘Female First UK’.
Appearing on the recent episode of The Chris Moyles Show on Radio X, Dave revealed, "This is amazing. So, my daughter, Violet, is 19, she's about to turn 20, she made this album with a producer named Justin Raisen, and she did it on her own. Like, she met the producer, and they would go to the studio every day, and she would send me songs when she was finished. But I had absolutely nothing to do with this record at all. And I had no idea. I knew she was looking to sign a record deal, and she was like, 'Hey, Dad, can I come over for dinner tonight? And I was like, 'Yeah, sure. What do you want me to make?'”.
“And she came over and told me, like, 'I signed my record deal today’. I was just like, 'Oh my God!' So, I’m totally uninvolved, and I’m like the dad who wants to be there and know everything. And she’s just totally doing her own thing”.
According to ‘Female First UK’, Dave is proud of his daughter, who has provided backing vocals at Foo Fighters concerts, as well as performing lead vocals on All Apologies during Nirvana's four-song set reunion show at the Fire Aid benefit concert in Los Angeles in January 2025.
The star, who also has daughters Harper, 16, and Ophelia, 11, with his 49-year-old wife, director-and-actress Jordyn Blum, continued, "This record is amazing. She is so incredibly talented and has such great taste in music".
The hitmaker said the record appeals because "it's a wide range of everything". Dave added, "There are songs that remind me of The Sundays or Cocteau Twins and things like that. Then there's super hard, really heavy rock stuff. Ethereal. It's beautiful. It's an amazing record".