Christy Canyon was born Melissa Bardizbanian on June 17, 1966 in Pasadena, California, her father was Armenian, her mother was of Italian origin, grew up in San Fernando Valley, where she went to school, and started dancing when she was a teenager before she entered the porn industry. At 18 years old, in September 1984, he made his debut at Swedish Erotica 57th with Ron Jeremy, who made close friendship with him, and that's when he started the male magazine photography shoot in Agent Jim South's office after being addressed by actor Greg Rome in Hollywood. His career was a wave, he retired three times: he first returned in March 1985, then in 1989 with Video Exclusives and his own Canyon Video label, and then from June 1989 to December 1992, and then from 1995 to 1997 he worked as Vivid's contract star, in a total of over a hundred erotic films, including Hot in the City, Twisted, American MILF and Where the Boys Aren 'series. He won several awards for best female performance, got into the Hall of Fame of AVN and XRCO, received the Free Speech Coalition Lifetime Award, recognized his natural attractiveness and energetic style. After 1997 he danced until 2001, but retired from the camera, but instead became a radio and television personality, in 2003 he wrote his autobiography "Lights, Camera, Sex!" which became a bestseller, and then led the Playboy Radio Night Calls show on Sirius, 2013 to Christy Canyon Show on Vivid Radio on Sirius / XM, where he gave advice to new players and proud industry history. He joined OnlyFans in 2017, and in 2024 he made a new erotic scene in Elaina St. With James and the Vixen Media Group MILFY, while operating its website, it sells articles on eBay and ABBIDS, thus remaining active in the adult entertainment industry in which it is considered as a pioneer.