Frank Iero
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Frank Anthony Iero Jr. (born October 31, 1981 in Belleville, New Jersey ) is an American musician . He is the rhythm guitarist and backing vocalist for the alternative rock band My Chemical Romance . He is the singer of the post-hardcore band Leathermouth , which he founded, and of the band Death Spells, which he also founded . He also had the solo project frnkiero and the patience. He also released the album Stomachaches under the stage name frnkiero and the cellabration.
Childhood and youth
Frank Iero was born in Belleville, New Jersey and raised in Kearny, New Jersey . As a child, he suffered from numerous bronchitis and ear infections, which meant that he spent some of his childhood in hospitals. He is also lactose intolerant and has a food allergy . On a scholarship, he attended Rutgers University for a while until he dropped out of college to tour with his band My Chemical Romance .
Frank Iero's parents separated when he was a child. He grew up with his mother, who sometimes made the apartment available to him for his numerous band rehearsals. His father and grandfather were both musicians and had a great influence on the young music-loving Frank Iero. The father urged his son to become a drummer like himself , but Frank Iero preferred to play the guitar . That's why he soon took guitar lessons.
Music career
Frank Iero played in local bands in New Jersey 's punk scene at the age of eleven . Prior to joining My Chemical Romance, he was lead singer of the punk band Pencey Prep , the album - Heartbreak in stereo under the founded by Alex Saavedra Label - Eyeball Records published before they broke up. While out with Pencey Prep, he made friends with Gerard Way and the other My Chemical Romance members, became a fan of their music (their first demo) and helped them get to the first concerts. After his band Pencey Prep split up, he began to play in various bands such as I Am A Graveyard, Hybrid, Sector 12 and American Nightmare , until he was offered to become the rhythm guitarist for My Chemical Romance.
Years later, Frank Iero was also the front man of the self-founded hardcore punk band Leathermouth , which released their debut album XO in January 2009 on Epitaph Records . He is also involved in a The Cure tribute band called The Love Cats - named after the The Cure song of the same name. He also played bass for the band Reggie And The Full Effect on their farewell tour.
Frank Iero was part of the jury for the seventh annual Independent Music Awards to support independent artists.
On December 7th, 2010 he separated from the label Skeleton Crew , which he and his wife had co-founded years earlier, in order to be able to concentrate fully on his family and the music with My Chemical Romance. Frank Iero explained that he would have loved to continue with the label, but that it was not possible for him to manage his band career, the newly enlarged family (two newborn daughters) and running a company at the same time.
Frank Iero's first real solo project, This Song Is A Curse , became the bonus track of the official soundtrack of Tim Burton's short film Frankenweenie .
In 2014 he released the album Stomachaches as Frnkiero & the Cellabration , which reached number 68 in the UK charts.
Equipment
In My Chemical Romance's early years, Iero mainly used Gibson SG's, Epiphone Les Paul guitars, and Marshall Amplifications amps. Most notable is his white Les Paul, called "Pansy", which gained popularity with fans but once broke on stage. Since then he has switched to Gibson Les Paul guitars and occasionally played a Gibson SG . Frank Iero also used a Fender Stratocaster in the My Chemical Romance music video for Desolation Row .
He also worked with Epiphone to design his Wilshire Phant-O-Matic guitar, which he played primarily at My Chemical Romance concerts during the World Contamination Tour , the Honda Civic Tour and the Reading and Leeds Festival .
Life and attitude
On February 5, 2007, Frank Iero married his long-term partner Jamia Nestor after he proposed marriage to her on May 25, 2006 during the recording of My Chemical Romance's third album, The Black Parade . Frank Iero and his wife Jamia Nestor are parents of twin girls born in 2010 and a son born in 2012.
Frank Iero has numerous tattoos. Among them are logos of the bands Black Flag and The Misfits , symbols for his love for his home state New Jersey , a joint tattoo with James Dewees for the My Chemical Romance album Three Cheers For Sweet Revenge and others made by the tattoo artist Kat Von D : Frankensteins Monster and portraits of his grandmother and grandfather. The latter tattoos are also featured in Kat Von D's book High Voltage Tattoo . In the book she also describes that she and Frank Iero have become good friends and that she attended the wedding of him and Gerard Way. The creation of the tattoo of Iero's grandfather was also recorded in an episode of the reality show LA Ink , in which Kat Von D tattoos mostly publicly known customers in front of the camera.
Frank Iero supports the gay movement, mainly by wearing t-shirts. His T-shirt with the label "Homophobia is gay" became very popular with the fans. In Rock Sound magazine, Iero stated that he voted for Barack Obama in the 2008 US presidential election . He is a vegetarian to protest against the treatment of animals in slaughterhouses and breeding farms . In 2008 the PETA dubbed him “one of the World's Sexiest Vegetarians”, alongside Alyssa Milano .
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- ↑ US chart history
- ↑ http://www.imnotokay.net/my-chemical-romance/frank-iero/
- ↑ https://twitter.com/FrankIero/status/22769538483355648
- ↑ 7th Annual IMA Artist Judges ( Memento from March 6, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ http://skeletoncrewonline.com/forum/index.php?topic=3512.0
- ↑ Frnkiero and the Cellabration in the UK charts
- ↑ http://www.epiphone.com/Products/Designer/Wilshire-Phant-o-matic.aspx
- ↑ http://www.epiphone.com/News-Features/Features/2011/Introducing-the-Epiphone-Wilshire-Phant-o-matic.aspx
- ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from July 8, 2011 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.
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QFNryA81eEA
- ↑ http://www.peta2.com/outthere/o-sexyveg08_winners.asp
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| SURNAME | Iero, Frank |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Iero, Frank Anthony junior (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American rhythm guitarist and backing singer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 31, 1981 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Belleville, New Jersey |