John Francis Bongiovi Jr. is an American singer-songwriter, record producer, philanthropist, and actor. He is best known as the founder and frontman of the Grammy Award-winning rock band Bon Jovi, which was formed in 1983. He has released 15 studio albums with his band; to date, the band has sold over 130 million albums worldwide. In the 1990s, he started an acting career, starring in the films Moonlight and Valentino and U-571.
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John Francis Bongiovi Jr. is an American singer-songwriter, record producer, philanthropist, and actor. He is best known as the founder and frontman of the Grammy Award-winning rock band Bon Jovi, which was formed in 1983. He has released 15 studio albums with his band; to date, the band has sold over 130 million albums worldwide. In the 1990s, he started an acting career, starring in the films Moonlight and Valentino and U-571 and appearing on television in Sex and the City, Ally McBeal and The West Wing. He was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2009. In 1996, People Magazine named him one of the \”50 Most Beautiful People In The World\”. In 2000, People awarded him the title \”Sexiest Rock Star\”. He is a founder and former majority owner of the Arena Football League team, the Philadelphia Soul, founded in 2006. He spent summers in Erie, Pennsylvania, with his grandparents, and sold newspapers. In 2012, he ranked number 50 on the list of Billboard Magazine’s \”Power 100\”, a ranking of \”The Most Powerful and Influential People in The Music Business\”. As of 2019, he has released 14 studio albums, five live albums, and three live compilations and three compilation albums.
He also has released two solo albums, including “Livin’ on a Prayer” and “When When When When”. He has performed more than 2,700 concerts in 50 countries for more than 34 million fans in over 50 countries, making them the bestselling American rock bands of all time. His father was of Italian and Slovak ancestry and his mother is of German and Russian descent. He said that he is a blood relative of singer Frank Sinatra. He attended St. Joseph High School, in Metuchen, New Jersey, during his freshman and sophomore years. He later transferred to Sayreville War Memorial High School in Parlin,. New Jersey. He played piano and guitar with his first band, Raze, at the age of 13. At 16, he met David Bryan and formed a band called Atlantic City Expressway. By 1980, he had formed another band, the Rest, and opened up for New Jersey acts such as Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes. In 1984 and 1985, he released their first album, Slippery When Wet, which sold 28 million copies worldwide.
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