Biography of Jack Russell musician; A photo of a young rock singer with a funny mustache
Biography of Jack Russell musician: Jack Patrick Russell (December 5, 1960 – August 15, 2024) was an American rock vocalist. He was a founding member of the hard rock band Great White.
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Biography of Jack Russell musician
Early life
Biography of Jack Russell musician: Russell was born in Montebello, California, on December 5, 1960. He grew up with influences such as Robert Plant and Steven Tyler, and became a vocalist for many bands in high school and later on.
He met Mark Kendall in a concert and began plans to form a band called Dante Fox. Band manager Alan Niven and Kendall decided to change the name of the band to Great White because “that was Mark Kendall’s nickname. He had very white hair and very light complexion. They called him the Great White”
Jack Russell might have piled on a few pounds, but his blues-rock band Great White, twenty-five years old, was thriving in the winter of 2003. Guitarist Mark Kendall had quit drinking — which had nearly killed him — and returned to the group.
Russell had beaten back booze and cocaine, and he’d also come to terms with the death in 2001 of his father, John.
He’d taken up gardening at his new home in the California desert. The reconstituted group, Russell felt, was “the most potent lineup Great White has ever had.”
Biography of Jack Russell musician: Great White, in the strictest sense, had never been a hair-metal band. Their makeup wasn’t quite as elaborate, their music not as histrionic. Great White were more a boogie band, a party band, with one secret weapon — a sweet-piped singer who sounded like Robert Plant. “Jack won a genetic lottery,” says a friend. “He was gifted with a remarkable voice.” Great White released an album of Led Zeppelin covers in 1999, and Plant/Page tunes were a highlight of their live show. And while other metal musicians worked day jobs, Great White never stopped touring.
Russell personified metal’s abandon. First arrested at fourteen for having sex on the roof of his high school, according to publicity material, Russell had a rap sheet that grew to fifty-three entries, including a bust for shooting his drug dealer’s maid and for misconduct in hotel rooms and on airplanes. He dallied with porn stars, that metal-musician’s birthright. The singer became known by the nickname Mista Bone.
Personal life
Biography of Jack Russell musician: In 1979, Russell was arrested for the attempted robbery of a drug dealer’s home while high on phencyclidine. He fired a shot into the house that accidentally struck and injured the housekeeper, who survived the incident. Russell was sentenced to 8 years in prison, but was released after 11 months.
On March 25, 2011, he and his girlfriend Heather Ann Kramer were married.
