No Doubt was ska band formed in 1987. It consisted of five members: Eric Stefani, John Spence (founders), Gwen Stefani, Tony Kanal, and Tom Dumont. The band was named after John’s habit of saying “No doubt.” They played local shows around Anaheim, California. Later that year, the band almost broke up when John Spence committed suicide. In the end the other band members decided to continue the band because would have wanted them to keep going.

      Adrian Young joined No Doubt taking the place of John. Gwen began to take over the lead vocals. Getting Gwen to sing lead vocals took a lot of encouragement from the other band members. The band finally completed their line up. No Doubt started to develop their own sound and stage presence that was extremely energetic and fun like the music they played. The band didn’t have very much faith that they would breakthrough into the music mainstream, so they all attended college and had back up plans for the future.

Eventually, No Doubt was signed to a record label and released their debut album that was simply titled No Doubt. The debut didn’t attract very much attention because the mainstream style of music was grunge (e.g. Nirvana). Next, No Doubt took matters into their own hands and released another album independently. It was titled The Beacon Street Collection. Soon following, Eric Stefani quit No Doubt. He pursued the career of becoming an animator instead.

Gwen Stefani decided to take over writing lyrics for No Doubt since Eric had previously written all the songs. Gwen wrote lyrics for the next album titled Tragic Kingdom. When it hit stores, the world finally started to take notice to No Doubt. The record was a hit and sold around 15 million copies worldwide. “Just A Girl” was the biggest hit on Tragic Kingdom.

   Gwen, being the leader of No Doubt, began to get more attention from the media. She met Gavin Rossdale, who is the lead singer in the band Bush. Years later, Gwen and Gavin got married.

        In 2000, No Doubt released the album Return to Saturn.  The titled represents the twenty-nine and a half years it takes the planet Saturn to revolve around the sun. At the time Gwen was twenty-nine years old. Return to Saturn sold well, but only sold 1.4 million copies in the U.S.