Alice Cooper
Alice Cooper (born Vincent Damon Furnier; February 4, 1948) is an American rock singer, songwriter and musician whose career spans more than five decades. With a stage show that sometimes included a guillotine, gallows, electric chair, fake blood, boa constrictor and baby dolls, Cooper drew equally from horror movies, vaudeville and garage rock to pioneer a grandly theatrical and violent brand of heavy metal that was designed to shock.
Alice Cooper originally was a band that consisted of Furnie
Furnier's solo career as Alice Cooper, legally adopting the band's name as his own, began with the 1975 concept album Welcome to My Nightmare, and reached his commercial peak with the 1989 hit "Poison". His most recent studio release (his 18th solo album) was in 2008, Along Came a Spider. Expanding from his original Detroit-based garage rock roots, over the years Cooper has experimented with many different musical styles, including art rock, conceptual rock, rock and roll, jazz, new wave, and heavy metal.
He's known for his social and witty persona offstage. The Rolling Stone Album Guide goes so far as to call him the world's most "beloved heavy metal entertainer". He helped to shape the sound and look of heavy metal, and is seen as the person who "first introduced horror imagery to rock'n'roll, and whose stagecraft and showmanship have permanently transformed the genre". Away from music, Cooper is a film actor, a golfing celebrity, a restaurateur, and since 2004 a popular radio DJ with his classic rock show Nights with Alice Cooper. In 2011, the original Alice Cooper Group was inducted into The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
Born
Feb 04, 1948
Detroit, Michigan, USA
Known For
Acting
Movies
149 acting
6 crew
Popularity
2.1
Known For
Dark Shadows
2012
as Self
Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare
1991
as Mr. Underwood
Prince of Darkness
1987
as Street Schizo
Wayne's World
1992
as Self
Never Sleep Again: The Elm Street Legacy
2010
as Self
Suck
2009
as Bartender
Crystal Lake Memories: The Complete History of Friday the 13th
2013
as Self
Metal: A Headbanger's Journey
2005
as Self
Lemmy
2010
as Self
An Honest Liar
2014
as Self
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