The Flaming Lips had some great news for fans on Tuesday (Oct. 8) when they announced that instrumentalist Steven Drozd’s 16-year-old daughter Charlotte “Bowie” Drozd has been found after going missing over the weekend.
“She’s found and is safe.. her mother has spoke with her..,” frontman WayneCoyne wrote on Instagram alongside a poster of Bowie with “Found” written across it. “THANK YOU everyone for all your posts and all your networking and all your support and all your skills and all your trust and all your LOVE !!!”
The relieving news comes just a day after the band took to social media to share a missing person poster for Bowie. At the time, the teenager had been missing since around 11:30 a.m. on Saturday. According to the posts, Bowie was last seen on the monorail in Seattle, Washington, near the Space Needle.
No information was given as to where she was found or why she disappeared.
The Flaming Lips recently celebrated their 40th anniversary, as they were formed in 1983. “I think a big part of why we’re still together and still touring and still doing stuff that people are interested in is because we try to change with the times or change as we go,” Drodz recently told The Oklahoman of their longtime success. “A lot of bands, they make a couple of records, they get stuck in that one sound, and that’s just what they do for the rest of their career, whatever. And that’s fine. But I think that would probably kill us, if we did something like that. Even if it doesn’t seem like we’re going through any big changes, we feel like we’re going through changes. So, that helps us feel new and fresh.”
