Axl Rose

Hard rock, Celebrity

1962 –

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Who is Axl Rose?

W. Axl Rose is an American singer-songwriter and musician. He is the lead vocalist and only remaining original member of the hard rock band Guns N' Roses. Due to his powerful and wide vocal range and energetic live performances, Rose has been named one of the greatest singers of all time by various media outlets, including Rolling Stone and NME.

Born in Lafayette, Indiana, Rose moved to Los Angeles in the early 1980s, where he became active in the local hard rock scene and joined several bands, including Hollywood Rose and L.A. Guns. In 1985, he co-founded Guns N' Roses, with whom he enjoyed great success and recognition in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Their first album, Appetite for Destruction, has sold in excess of 28 million copies worldwide, and is the best-selling debut album of all time in the U.S. with 18 million units sold. Its full-length follow-ups, the twin albums Use Your Illusion I and Use Your Illusion II, were also widely successful; they respectively debuted at No. 2 and No. 1 on the Billboard 200 and have sold a combined 35 million copies worldwide. Following the conclusion of their two-and-a-half-year Use Your Illusion Tour, Guns N' Roses released "The Spaghetti Incident?", their last studio album release until 2008, and the last with the Use Your Illusion line-up.

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Born
Feb 6, 1962
Lafayette
Also known as
  • William Bailey
  • W. Axl Rose
  • axl_rose
  • William Bruce Rose Jr.
  • William Bruce Bailey
  • Rose, Axl
  • Axel Rose
Parents
Siblings
Spouses
Ethnicity
  • White American
Nationality
  • United States of America
Profession
Education
  • Jefferson High School
Lived in
  • Lafayette

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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