In 2004, Stefani recorded her first solo album Love Angel Music Baby album featured several collaborations with producers and other artists like No Doubt bandmate Tony Kanal Linda Perry Andre 3000 Nellee Hooper and The Neptunes The was mainly inspired by pop and new wave music from the 1980s and produced an international success with sales of over seven million copies of the third single Hollaback Girl was on thefirst U.S. digital download to sell One million copies
debut album also drew attention to Stefani Harajuku Girls entourage of four Japanese backup dancers named for a fashionable suburb of Tokyo was originally hired in 2004 for the album The Girls continued to appear together Stefani and see these music videos: "What You Waiting For? " "Rich Girl" "Hollaback Girl" "Luxurious" "Crash" "Wind It Up" "The Sweet Escape" and "Now That You Got It"
Stefani's second solo album The Sweet Escape was released December 5, 2006 Collaborating again with her in the project Perry was The Neptunes along with Akon and Tim Rice-Oxley of Keane and producer Pharrell and Channel Despite mixed reviews of the album as a whole, the title track The Sweet Escape became an international success och earned Stefani a Grammy and is still the most successful song on her solo career
Although it was speculated that the album would contain only materials that were originally written for lambs not make the final cut only two songs left over from the LAMB was included in mail: 80's-influenced U Started It; and Wonderful Life which features Depeche Mode's Martin Gore on guitar L
Stefani is as well known as a way trendsetter In 2003 she created a clothing fashion line named LAMB, which shares the initials of her first solo album The collection was later extended With the introduction of a newer line in 2005 called Harajuku Lovers, which draws its inspiration from Japanese culture and fashion
On May 26, 2006 Stefani gave birth to their first child, a boy named Kingmares James McGregor Rossdale father is British grunge musician Gavin Rossdale former frontman of now defunct bands Bush and Institute, whom she married in 2002
In January 2008, Stefani's father-in-law confirmed that she would wait for her second child during the summer on August 21, 2008 second son Zuma Nesta Rock Rossdale was born
