Steve Drozd’s teenage daughter has been found. Seattle police told The Post on Tuesday that they have found Charlotte “Bowie” Drozd after she went missing on Saturday, Oct. 5.
“The Seattle Police Department can confirm 16-year-old Charlotte Drozd has been located and is now safe with her family,” Seattle PD said in a statement to The Post. The police shared a missing person alert Sunday on X, formerly known as Twitter, providing a photo of Charlotte as well as details that may help identify her.
The Flaming Lips drummer’s daughter was last seen before she went missing Saturday at 11:30 a.m. in downtown Seattle on Broad Street – near the Space Needle and Seattle Monorail.
Shortly before police announced that Charlotte had been located, Katy Coyne, who is married to Flaming Lips frontman Wayne Coyne, posted on Instagram that “’Bowie’ Drozd was found safe outside of Seattle.”
“Thank you to everyone helping bring her home safely,” Katy continued. “There’s no other information about the situation yet but she was just found 🙏.”
Seattle Police declared Charlotte’s disappearance an active missing person case over the weekend and assigned a missing persons detective to investigate.
Steve Drozd’s bandmates, friends and family shared the news of Charlotte’s disappearance on social media, imploring the public to help with the search.
Coyne and rock icon Weezer were among those who shared Charlotte’s missing person poster on Instagram.
The Flaming Lips’ social media accounts also spread the word and were joined by current and former members of the band, including Michael Ivins, Kliph Scurlock, Matthew Duckworth and Nicholas Ley. Celebrities such as Juliette Lewis, Jack Black and the Red Hot Chili Peppers’ Flea posted as well.
“Thank you Wayne for posting,” Drozd commented. “We don’t know what to do.”
Steven Drozd’s journey with Flaming Lips started in 1991 as a drummer. While his style is influenced by the drum sounds of the 1970s, his time spent with his father’s polka band helped him develop a sense of delicacy and syncopation.
His thick grooves, with episodes of odd-time funk, are interspersed with straight-ahead rock, mixing various genres. In 1999, while touring The Soft Bulletin, Drozd decided to assume guitar duties as well as bass, keyboards, and backing vocals, using his drum tracks during live performances, but he still drums on the studio albums to this day.
He is the songwriting/musician half of You in Me, a Neil Diamond-inspired duo, with Alan Novey on vocals. Drozd writes the songs, and he and Novey perform them as a tribute to Diamond.
He and Steve Burns created the band StevenSteven, a children’s psychedelic music project.
The artist Imagene Peise, an alias for a collaboration between Drozd and Wayne Coyne, records elevator music-style covers and originals, culled from the home recordings of Drozd with imagery and myth from the imagination of Coyne.
Drozd and Coyne have a second group together called Electric Würms, with Drozd taking the lead role in the band. Influenced by prog rock, krautrock, and punk rock, their goal is to explore the outer reaches of traditional rock music, as well as to perform Flaming Lips’ deeper cuts. Nashville-based Linear Downfall completes the ensemble.