Anthony Kiedis

Anthony Kiedis (born November 1, 1962 in Grand Rapids , Michigan ) is an American musician and co-founder, lyricist and singer of the California funk rock band Red Hot Chili Peppers , which he formed in 1983 with Michael Balzary (called Flea ), Hillel Slovak and Jack Irons founded. Occasionally, Kiedis can also be seen as an actor in smaller film roles.

Life

Anthony Kiedis is of Mahican , Lithuanian , English , Greek , French , Irish and Dutch descent and the son of actor John Kiedis (stage name Blackie Dammett, film Lethal Weapon ) and Margaret "Peggy" Idema. His parents divorced in 1966.

His godfather was Sonny Bono ; Cher was his babysitter on occasion.

Kiedis lived with his mother in Grand Rapids near Lake Michigan until he was eleven, before moving permanently to his father in Los Angeles, California. He attended Emerson Junior High and Fairfax High, where he first met Michael "Flea" Balzary. After graduating, he attended the University of California, Los Angeles , which his father had also attended.

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Kiedis had met his bandmate Flea in high school and they quickly became good friends. Hillel Slovak came a little later, also through high school, and within a short time Kiedis, Flea and Hillel became an inseparable trio. With Jack Irons , they formed the Tony Flow & The Miraculously Majestic Masters of Mayhem (Kiedis was nicknamed Antoine the Swan ) for a performance in 1983 , which then became the Red Hot Chili Peppers .

Drug addiction

Due to his later heroin addiction, he was briefly excluded from the band by his friends Flea and Hillel Slovak. After a withdrawal and an interview with Flea, he was reinstated. After Slovak died of a heroin overdose in 1988 , Kiedis decided to stop using drugs. In 1995 he relapsed again through an injection from a Los Angeles dentist ; however, since 2000 he has been considered clean.

Private life

Kiedis is the father of a son (Everly Bear Kiedis, born October 2, 2007), who emerged from the relationship with the model Heather Christie, who was just 18 at the beginning of the relationship. In 2008 the couple separated.

In 2004 he published his autobiography Scar Tissue in the USA and Great Britain , which was also published in German in 2005.

Kiedis was a vegetarian in the 1980s and vegan in the 2000s , but later resumed eating meat.

Filmography (selection)

Anthony Kiedis as a small actor in:

• 1978: FIST - A man goes his way ( FIST )
• 1986: Archie and Harry - You Can't Leave It ( Tough Guys )
• 1987 sub-zero ( Less Than Zero )
• 1991: Dangerous surf ( Point Break )
• 1994: Highway Heat

literature

• USA and UK: Anthony Kiedis, Larry Ratso Sloman: Scar Tissue - The Autobiography , 2004, Hyperion Books ISBN 1-401-3074-50
• Germany: Anthony Kiedis: Scar Tissue: the singer of the Red Hot Chili Peppers - the autobiography . German First edition, 3rd edition. Kiepenheuer and Witsch, Cologne 2005, ISBN 3-462-03483-9 .

Web links

• Anthony Kiedis in the Internet Movie Database (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ English Transcript of the Interview with Luca Bergamin for the Italian Fashion Magazine Flair , 2012
2. ↑ Tobias-Jan Hagenbäumer: Huge participation in PETA's annual vote for the hottest celebrities with a heart . ( Memento of the original from January 11, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. PETA website, June 2008, accessed June 19, 2016. 
3. ↑ Andreas Albes: Red Hot Chili Peppers: Anthony Kiedis on Heidi Klum . Stern.de , June 18, 2016.