John Anthony White is an American singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and producer. He is best known as the lead singer and guitarist of the duo the White Stripes. In 2005, White founded The Raconteurs with Brendan Benson, and in 2009 founded The Dead Weather with Alison Mosshart of The Kills. He was married to model and singer Karen Elson from 2005 to 2013.
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John Anthony White is an American singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and producer. He is best known as the lead singer and guitarist of the duo the White Stripes, but has also had success in other bands and as a solo artist. He has won 12 Grammy Awards, and all three of his solo albums have reached number one on the Billboard charts. In 2005, White founded The Raconteurs with Brendan Benson, and in 2009 founded The Dead Weather with Alison Mosshart of The Kills. In 2008, he recorded \”Another Way to Die\” along with Alicia Keys, making them the only duet to perform a Bond song. White has an extensive collection of guitars and other instruments and has a preference for vintage items that often have connections to famous blues artists. His record label and studio Third Man Records releases vinyl recordings of his own work as well as that of other artists and local school children. White values his privacy and has been known to create misdirection about his personal life. He was married to model and singer Karen Elson from 2005 to 2013; they have a son and daughter. He currently resides in Nashville, Tennessee. White is a board member of the Library of Congress’ National Recording Preservation Foundation. His favorite song is “Grinnin’ in Your Face” by Son House, which he says is his favorite blues song of all time. He also plays drums in a band called the Dead Weather, and has played with Gene Krupa, Stewart Copeland, and Crow Smith from Flat Duo Jets.
White was raised a Catholic, and his father and mother both worked for the Archdiocese of Detroit as the Building Maintenance Superintendent and secretary in the Cardinal’s office. He became an altar boy, which landed him an uncredited role in the 1987 movie The Rosary Murders, filmed mainly at Holy Redeemer parish in southwest Detroit. He began playing the drums in the first grade after finding a kit in the attic. As a child, he was a fan of classical music, but in elementary school, he began listening to the Doors, Pink Floyd, and Led Zeppelin. His mother’s family was Polish, while his father was Scottish-Canadian. Gillis is the youngest of ten children of Teresa and Gorman M. Gillis. He and Meg White married in 1996, but divorced in 2000 before the height of the band’s fame. He credits his early musical influences were his older brothers, who were in a bands together called Catalyst, and he learned to play the instruments they abandoned. He said in 2005, on 60 Minutes, he told Mike Wallace that his life could have turned out differently. “I was gonna become a priest, but the last second I thought, ‘I’ll just get a new amplifier, and I didn’t think I was just allowed to take it with me’ ” He credits a friend, Brian Muldoon, with exposing him to punk music as they worked together in the trombone shop.
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