Megan Martha White is an American former musician and singer best known for her work as the drummer of Detroit rock duo the White Stripes. Her music career began when, on a whim, she played on her future bandmate Jack White’s drums in 1997. She and Jack publicly portrayed themselves as siblings, but public records emerged in 2001 that showed they were not related. The band announced in February 2011 that they would be disbanding.
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Megan Martha White is an American former musician and singer best known for her work as the drummer of Detroit rock duo the White Stripes. Her music career began when, on a whim, she played on her future bandmate Jack White’s drums in 1997. She and Jack publicly portrayed themselves as siblings, but public records emerged in 2001 that showed they were not related. In 2009, she married guitarist Jackson Smith, the son of musicians Patti Smith and Fred ‘Sonic’ Smith. They divorced in 2013. While on tour in support of the White stripes’ 2007 album Icky Thump, White suffered a bout of acute anxiety and the remaining dates of the tour were cancelled. The band announced in February 2011 that they would be disbanding. White has not been active in the music industry since. Her musical influences are wide and varied, with Bob Dylan being her favorite artist. She calls herself’very shy’ and is known for keeping an extremely low public profile, also inspired by Dylan. She is the daughter of Catherine and Walter Hackett White Jr. and has an older sister, Heather. She attended Grosse Pointe North High School and, according to one classmate, was ‘always the quiet, obviously artistic type, and she just kept very much to herself’ She decided not to go to college and instead pursue a career as a chef.
She married Jack Gillis, a fellow high school senior from a Detroit neighborhood known as Mexicantown, and they began dating and were eventually married on September 21, 1996. The two then began calling themselves The Whitestripes and soon played their first gig at the Gold Dollar in Detroit. In 1998, the band signed with Italy Records, a small and independent Detroit-based garage punk label of Dave Buick. The band released its self-titled debut album in 1999, and a year later the album was followed up by the cult classic, De Stijl. The album eventually peaked at number 38 in Billboard’s Independent Albums chart. Even as their success as a band was mounting, their personal relationship was faltering and they were divorced in 2000. In 2002, Chuck Klosterman said, ‘On the drums, Meg smashed out carnal, visceral, raw and sometimes funny, sometimes funny and sometimes grimales out of the sky. Clearly, this is a band at the apex of its power’
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