Career
She is the singer and guitarist in the bands Screaming Females and Noun. Her father, Angelo Paternoster, taught her how to play guitar. Paternoster grew up in Elizabeth, New Jersey and attended Roselle Catholic High School and later Rutgers University"s Mason Gross School of the Arts, where she became interested in music and formed Screaming Females.
In a 2012 list she was named the 77th greatest guitarist of all time by Spin magazine.