Jack White (musician)

Jack White at the Roskilde Festival (2012)

Chart positions Explanation of the data

Albums

Rome (with DJ Danger Mouse , Daniele Luppi & Norah Jones )   DE 91 05/27/2011 (2 weeks)   AT 72 05/27/2011 (1 week)   CH 23 05/29/2011 (5 weeks)   UK 20th 05/28/2011 (3 weeks)   US 11 06/04/2011 (7 weeks) Blunderbuss   DE 3 05/04/2012 (9 weeks)   AT 3 05/04/2012 (10 weeks)   CH 1 05/06/2012 (20 weeks)   UK 1  gold 05/05/2012 (18 weeks)   US 1  gold 05/12/2012 (43 weeks) Lazaretto   DE 5 06/20/2014 (7 weeks)   AT 6th 06/20/2014 (10 weeks)   CH 2 06/15/2014 (12 weeks)   UK 4th  silver 06/21/2014 (12 weeks)   US 1 06/28/2014 (21 weeks) Jack White Acoustic Recordings 1998-2016   DE 11 09/16/2016 (4 weeks)   AT 6th 09/23/2016 (6 weeks)   CH 11 09/18/2016 (5 weeks)   UK 12 09/16/2016 (3 weeks)   US 8th 10/01/2016 (3 weeks) Boarding house reach   DE 17th 03/30/2018 (3 weeks)   AT 8th 04/06/2018 (6 weeks)   CH 5 04/01/2018 (7 weeks)   UK 5 04/05/2018 (3 weeks)   US 1 04/07/2018 (5 weeks)

Singles

Another Way to Die (with Alicia Keys )   DE 8th 10/17/2008 (19 weeks)   AT 2 10/10/2008 (21 weeks)   CH 4th 10/12/2008 (23 weeks)   UK 9  silver 09/28/2008 (14 weeks)   US 81 11/29/2008 (2 weeks) Don't Hurt Yourself (with Beyoncé )   UK 36 05/05/2016 (2 weeks)   US 28 05/14/2016 (2 weeks)

Jack White (* 9. July 1975 in Detroit , Michigan as John Anthony Gillis ) is a songwriter , singer and guitarist of the band The Raconteurs and drummer for The Dead Weather . From 1997 to 2011 he was the head of the garage rock band The White Stripes . In the list of 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time by the music magazine Rolling Stone, he ranks 70th.

biography

Jack White grew up in a large Catholic family with nine siblings. At the age of eleven he started playing drums, and when he was fifteen he started playing guitar. In 1992 he studied music at the Cass Technical High School and also trained in an upholstery company. At that time, Jack White was opening his own upholstery shop, Third Man Upholstery. The color scheme was, similar to his current label Third Man Records , yellow and black. The advertising slogan was "Your furniture is not dead," and while business was not bad, Jack White was not enjoying being an upholsterer; so he wrote poems on the inside of the furniture. White made his first professional appearance as a drummer in the band Goober & the Peas .

The first band White played as a guitarist was Two Part Resin . After Dominic Suchyta left the three-man band, only Jack and his colleague Brian Muldoon remained. From late 1993 to 1996, the two played only guitar and drums as a duo. When Brian lost interest in the band, White came up with the idea of putting his supposed sister Meg on the drums. Although she had no experience, the two decided to continue as The White Stripes . White also played in the bands 2 Star Tabernacle and The Go , but soon gave up in favor of the White Stripes. Nevertheless, Jack recorded the album Makers of High Grade Suites around 2000 together with Brian Muldoon under the name The Upholsterers (dt. Die Polsterer) . But this band didn't last long either.

According to the Detroit Free Press , Jack and Megan (real: Megan Martha White) are not siblings: According to the newspaper, the two were married on September 21, 1996 in Oakland County and the marriage was notarized five days later . Jack took the surname of Megan White. The marriage was divorced in March 2000. Incidentally, neither of them provide any information about the origin of their relationship.

Jack White also worked as a producer for the band Soledad Brothers and The Von Bondies . In 2005/06 he founded the band The Raconteurs with three friends ( Brendan Benson , Jack Lawrence and Patrick Keeler) , in which he sings and plays guitar. On January 30th, 2006 they released the limited 7 "vinyl single Steady, as She Goes with two songs, on May 12th 2006 their debut album Broken Boy Soldiers followed .

He was in a relationship with the actress Renée Zellweger , whom he met while filming their joint film On the Road to Cold Mountain . The couple had planned the wedding for Christmas 2004, but separated shortly before.

On June 1, 2005, Jack married Karen Elson , the red-haired model also featured in the music video for Blue Orchid from the album Get Behind Me Satan . On the same day he played with the White Stripes as the first rock band in a concert at the Teatro Amazonas in Manaus. Jack and Karen have had a daughter since May 2, 2006 and a son since August 7, 2007. In 2010 Jack White produced their first album, The Ghost Who Walks , for his wife , a collection of songs in gothic folk style. On June 10, 2011, the two announced their separation.

In 2006 he appeared as a guest at the Rolling Stones concert at New York's Beacon Theater . This concert was released in German cinemas on April 4, 2008 as the film Shine a Light . In 2008 Jack White recorded the theme song for the 22nd James Bond film Quantum of Solace with the US singer Alicia Keys . Another Way to Die was released on September 19, 2008.

Also in 2008 was the documentary / Rockumentary It Might Get Loud , which is dedicated to the history of the electric guitar and portrays White "on par with the world guitarists" Jimmy Page from ( Led Zeppelin ) and The Edge from ( U2 ). The film was shown in German cinemas from August 27, 2009. Since the beginning of 2009, White has also played in the alternative rock band The Dead Weather .

On February 2, 2011, whitestripes.com announced that the duo had decided to part ways. White explained that the separation was not due to health reasons or artistic differences, but that there were "a variety of reasons".

Jack White has been a solo musician since the beginning of 2012. On February 27th, he released his first single Love Interruption . His first solo album, Blunderbuss , was released on April 23, 2012 and is available as a 12 "vinyl record and CD.

From May 2012 Jack White made a worldwide tour that also took him to Germany.

On June 6, 2014, Jack White released his second solo album called Lazaretto .

White released his third solo album "Boarding House Reach" (CD, vinyl record, digital) on March 23, 2018. As part of a world tour, he also came to Germany for three concerts in 2018 (Berlin, Munich, Dortmund).

Third Man Records

In 2001 Jack White founded the record label Third Man Records in Detroit . Since 2009 the label has had a recording studio, office space, a record store and a venue with a recording booth and a photo studio in Nashville .

On the occasion of the 15th anniversary of his label, White had a vinyl record played in the stratosphere in July 2016 . A special construction consisting of a balloon, record player and parachute ( Icarus Craft ) rose to a height of around 29 kilometers (94.413 ft). The piece of music was A Glorious Dawn , a sampling with Carl Sagan and Stephen Hawking , which was released as a single in 2009 as part of the music project Symphony of Science by John D. Boswell.

Music genre

Jack White names blues musicians like Robert Johnson , Son House or Blind Willie McTell as his greatest musical influences . His own style is from blues and partly also from folk influenced rock, furthermore punk elements can be found in some songs.

Prizes and awards

Jack White received the following awards, among others:

• 2003
  • Grammy: Best Rock Song for " Seven Nation Army ",
  • Grammy: Best Alternative Music Album for "Elephant"

• 2004
  • Grammy: Best Country Collaboration With Vocals for "Portland Oregon"

• 2005
  • Grammy: Best Alternative Music Album for "Get Behind Me Satan"

• 2007
  • Grammy: Best Alternative Music Album for "Icky Thump",
  • Grammy: Best Rock Performance By A Duo or Group With Vocals for "Icky Thump"

• 2008
  • Grammy: Best Engineered Album, Non Classical for "Consolers of the Lonely"

• 2010
  • Grammy: Best Boxed or Special Limited Edition Package for "Under Great White Northern Lights (Limited Edition Box Set)"

• 2015
  • Grammy : Best Rock Performance for "Lazaretto"

Discography

Appearance with The Raconteurs

Single with The Upholsterers

• 2000: Makers of High Grade Suites

Albums with The Go

• 1999: Whatcha Doin '

Albums with The White Stripes

• 1999: The White Stripes
• 2000: De Stijl
• 2001: White Blood Cells
• 2003: Elephant
• 2005: Get Behind Me Satan
• 2007: Icky Thump
• 2010: Under Great White Northern Lights
• 2016: Acoustic Recordings 1998–2016

Albums with The Raconteurs

• 2006: Broken Boy Soldiers
• 2008: Consolers of the Lonely
• 2019: Help us Stranger

Albums with The Dead Weather

• 2009: Horehound
• 2010: Sea of ​​Cowards
• 2015: Dodge and Burn

Single with Alicia Keys

• 2008: Another Way to Die (theme song to James Bond 007 - Quantum of Solace )

Single with Beyoncé

• 2016: Don't hurt yourself (Album: Lemonade )

Solo singles

• 2009: Fly Farm Blues
• 2012: Love Interruption
• 2012: Sixteen Saltines
• 2012: Freedom at 21
• 2012: I'm Shakin '
• 2014: Lazaretto

Solo albums

• 2012: Blunderbuss
• 2014: Lazaretto
• 2018: Boarding House Reach

The great Gatsby soundtrack

• 2013: Love Is Blindness

Filmography

• 1987: The murderer with the rosary (as an altar boy )
• 2003: Mutant Swinger from Mars (as Mikey)
• 2003: On the Way to Cold Mountain (Cold Mountain)
• 2003: Coffee and Cigarettes
• 2004: Under Blackpool Lights
• 2007: Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story (Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story)
• 2008: Shine a Light
• 2008: It Might Get Loud
• 2009: Under Great White Northern Lights
• 2011: Elvira's Movie Macabre (1 episode; as a drummer)
• 2018: Jack White: Kneeling at the Anthem DC (recording of the concert on May 30, 2018 in Washington, DC, exclusively on Amazon Prime Video)

Additional information

Web links

Commons : Jack White  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Official website (English)
• Jack White in the Internet Movie Database (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Chart sources: DE AT CH UK 1 UK 2 US
2. ↑ Music Sales Awards: UK US
3. ↑ ^{a b c d e} Torsten Hampel: Music is a color. In: Der Tagesspiegel . June 26, 2012.
4. ↑ 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time. Jack White (70/100). In: rollingstone.com. Retrieved January 23, 2013 . 
5. ↑ Jack White on immigration, hating mobile phones and his musical influences. Retrieved September 10, 2019 . 
6. ↑ http://www.believermag.com/issues/200305/?read=interview_white
7. ^ Gloriousnoise.com: Record of Divorce
8. ↑ faz.net: Album of the week: "Lazaretto" by Jack White
9. ^ Indigo editorial team: WHITE, JACK: Boarding House Reach. In: Indigo.de. Indigo Music Production, accessed March 7, 2019 . 
10. ↑ Musikexpress editorial team: Jack White on Germany tour 2018. In: Musikexpress. Axel Springer Mediahouse Berlin GmbH, May 22, 2018, accessed on March 7, 2019 . 
11. ^ Third Man Records. About. (No longer available online.) In: thirdmanrecords.com. Archived from the original on March 2, 2012 ; Retrieved on February 18, 2012 (English, Third Man Records website). 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.  
12. ↑ www.heraldscotland.com ; English, accessed August 9, 2016
13. ↑ www.musikexpress.de , accessed on August 9, 2016
14. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g h} Grammy: Jack White. In: grammy.com. Retrieved June 19, 2014 (English). 
15. ^ NA: Jack White: Kneeling at the Anthem DC out now. In: Jack White III. NA, September 21, 2018, accessed March 7, 2019 .