Peaches: Sweet Success

The singer Peaches performs at the Bring 'Em Home Now! 3rd Iraq War Anniversary Concert at Hammerstein Ballroom March 20, 2006, in New York.

Peaches performs at the Bring 'Em Home Now! 3rd Iraq War Anniversary Concert at Hammerstein Ballroom March 20, 2006, in New York.

Peaches, whose real name is Merrill Nisker, and her band perform in support her new album release at Shoreline Amphitheatre on July 8, 2006, in Mountain View, Calif.

Peaches, left, poses with her band Peaches& Herms in this file photo. Band Members from left are Samantha Maloney on drums; JD Sampson, Keytar and sequencing; and Radio Sloane, guitar. Maloney previously perfotmed in Hole, Courtney Love band, Motley Crue, and Eagles of Death Metal. Sampson was in LeTigre and Sloane was Courtney Love's guitarist.

Peaches and Michael Stipe appear at the Bring 'Em Home Now! 3rd Iraq War Anniversary Concert at Hammerstein Ballroom March 20, 2006, in New York.

Anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan, left, shakes hands with Conor Oberst of Bright Eyes as Peaches looks on at a press conference to unveil the "Bring 'Em Home Now!" postage stamp at the Bring 'Em Home Now! 3rd Iraq War Anniversary Concert at Hammerstein Ballroom March 20, 2006, in New York.

Radio 1 DJ Zane Lowe holds his award for Best Radio Show and singer Peaches while in the pressroom for the NME Awards 2004 on Feb. 12, 2004, at The Hammersmith Palais, in London. The winners at the annual awards are decided by a poll by NME magazine readers.

Peaches performs at the NME Awards 2004 at The Hammersmith Palais Feb. 12, 2004. in London. Peaches and Herms (her band) opened this summer for Nine Inch Nails.

Peaches and her friends are photographed together at the NME Awards 2004 at The Hammersmith Palais on Feb. 12, 2004, in London.

Peaches poses with her award at the NME Awards 2004 at The Hammersmith Palais Feb. 12, 2004, in London.The winners at the annual awards are decided by a poll by NME magazine readers.

Peaches and her band perform on one of their 2006 tours. Her songs have been featured in movies such as "Mean Girls," "Jackass 2," and "Lost in Translation," and on Showtime's "The L Word" TV series.

Would you believe that Peaches, whose raunchy songs focus on gender identity, was once a teacher? Before she turned to music in 1995, she taught in private schools in her native Canada.