The Red Hot Chili Peppers are an American alternative rock band formed in Los Angeles, California, in 1983. For most of its career, the band has consisted of vocalist Anthony Kiedis, guitarist John Frusciante, bassist Michael "Flea" Balzary, and drummer Chad Smith. The band's varied musical style has fused traditional rock and funk with various elements of heavy metal, punk rock, and psychedelic rock. In addition to Kiedis and Flea, the group originally featured guitarist Hillel Slovak and drummer Jack Irons. However, Slovak died of a heroin overdose in 1988, resulting in Irons resigning. Irons was replaced briefly by D. H. Peligro, former Dead Kennedys drummer, before the band found a permanent replacement in Chad Smith, while Slovak was replaced by up-and-coming guitarist Frusciante. This lineup recorded the band's fourth and fifth albums, 1989's Mother's Milk and 1991's Blood Sugar Sex Magik. Blood Sugar Sex Magik was a critical success and sold over twelve million copies. However, Frusciante grew increasingly uncomfortable with the band's success and left the band abruptly in 1992. Kiedis, Flea, and Smith employed Dave Navarro of Jane's Addiction for their subsequent album, 1995's One Hot Minute. It failed, however, to match the critical acclaim of Blood Sugar Sex Magik and sold fewer than half the copies of its predecessor. Shortly afterwards, Navarro was fired from the band due to creative differences. Frusciante, while absent from the band, developed a severe drug addiction and nearly died. In 1998, he completed rehabilitation and, at Flea's request, rejoined the band. The reunited foursome returned to the studio to record 1999's Californication, which went on to sell fifteen million units worldwide, becoming their most successful album to date. It was followed three years later with By the Way, which continued their success. In 2006, the group released the double album Stadium Arcadium. It was voted the second best album of 2006 by Rolling Stone magazine. It also won The Grammy Award for Best Rock Album and was also nominated for the "Album of the Year" at the 2007 ceremony.
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Anthony Kiedis Birth Name : Anthony Joseph Kiedis Date of Birth : November 1, 1962 Birth Place : Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA Profession : actor, musician Height : 5' 9� Anthony is the lead singer of the Red Hot Chili Peppers. He and bassist Michael "Flea" Balzary founded the California-based funk rock group in 1983. Kiedis is well known for his charismatic and energetic stage presence and soulful lyrics Kiedis was born in Grand Rapids, Michigan to John Kiedis (a.k.a. Blackie Dammet) and Margaret "Peggy" Idema, and has two half-sisters, Julie and Jenny, and one half-brother, James. Anthony's parents divorced in 1968, when he was 5. He lived with his mother in Grand Rapids until he was 11, then moved to California with his father. He also spent ample time in Pennsylvania. On his 12th birthday, he lost his virginity to his father's 19 year old girlfriend. Around this time, while a student at Fairfax High School, Anthony met Michael Balzary and the late Hillel Slovak, and would eventually go on to form bands with them (initially known Tony Flow & The Miraculously Majestic Masters Of Mayhem, finally settling on the Red Hot Chili Peppers). Kiedis has had many struggles with drug addiction, including heroin and cocaine. His father introduced him to drugs at the age of 12. He initially forced himself to get clean after the heroin overdose death of former Chili Peppers guitarist Hillel Slovak in 1988 for five years, but relapsed many times. He finally became clean again on December 24th, 2000. He has admitted to temptations of another relapse but so far has managed to stay clean. Kiedis claims that his dog, Buster (named after one of his all-time favorite comedians, Buster Keaton) played a big part in helping him stay clean from drug abuse. Sadly, Buster, a Rhodesian Ridgeback, has since died. Kiedis appeared as an actor in the 1991 Keanu Reeves/Patrick Swayze vehicle Point Break playing Tone, the surfer, and also featured in The Chase in 1994 playing Will (alongside bandmate Flea). His earlier acting work saw him adopting the stage name "Cole Dammett" (after his father's nickname) and starring as Sylvester Stallone's son in the film F.I.S.T. flea Birth Name : Michael Peter Balzary Date of Birth : October 16, 1962 Birth Place : Burwood, a suburb of Melbourne, Australia Michael Peter Balzary is the bassist for the alternative rock/funk rock band Red Hot Chili Peppers, and is a regular session musician as well as an occasional actor. Flea combines natural technical proficiency in his bass playing with a high level of musicality, while possessing the ability to play at intense speeds and flow naturally and spontaneously in onstage jams. In combination with his colourful personality and stage performance, Flea's bass playing has led to him being widely considered as one of the greatest bass guitar players of all time. Michael (as Flea was then still known) led a relatively conventional family lifestyle in Australia until his father Mick was posted to New York in March 1967 in accordance with his job as a customs officer, taking with him his wife Patricia, daughter Karen and the young Michael. After only four years in the US, Michael's mother Patricia met and fell in love with a jazz musician named Walter Urban Jr in 1971, resulting in the divorce of his parents. Michael was again uprooted, this time right across America, as his mother and soon to be stepfather moved with him and his sister to live in Los Angeles in 1972. Michael developed an enthusiasm in playing music very early, firstly trying his hand at the drums. However, at the age of nine he took up playing the trumpet and soon proved to be a natural talent. He was so skilled with the instrument, that upon his family's settlement in LA he swiftly earned a place in the Los Angeles Junior Philharmonic Orchestra. Already so proficient at playing the trumpet, watching his stepfather jamming with his bebop jazz band had a profound effect on the eleven-year-old Balzary, and this fueled his new-found love for jazz and leading exponents of the genre, such as Miles Davis, Dizzy Gillespie and Ornette Coleman. Concerning his singular love for the jazz genre at the time, Balzary confessed to VH1's Behind the Music that he originally had no interest in rock and roll, and his ambition was to become a jazz musician like his stepfather. He was still an avid trumpeteer and jazz fan when he started at Fairfax High School in September 1976, but this academic shift also brought about a fateful meeting that would change his life forever. He has done some acting, having appeared in the movies The Big Lebowski, My Own Private Idaho, Suburbia, Son in Law, The Blue Iguana, The Chase (1994) (with RHCP bandmate Kiedis), Motorama, Back to the Future Part II and Back to the Future Part III as 'Needles', headlining in Liar's Poker (1999), and providing the voice of the feral boy Donnie in the animated television series The Wild Thornberrys, as well as a minor, yet memorable role (licking Johnny Depp) in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, among others. Flea married Loesha Zeviar in 1986. Their daughter, Clara, was born in 1988. Flea and Loesha split up in 1990 and have joint custody of Clara but remain on friendly terms, with Loesha's name remaining tattoed on Flea's chest. He has also recently had a baby girl named Sunny Bebop Balzary with his new fiancee, Frankie Rayder. John Frusciante Birth Name : John Anthony Frusciante Date of Birth : March 5, 1970 Birth Place : New York John Anthony is the guitarist of the Californian band Red Hot Chili Peppers, with whom he has featured on five studio recordings (Mother's Milk, Blood Sugar Sex Magik, Californication, By The Way and Stadium Arcadium), two greatest hits packages (What Hits!? and Greatest Hits) and one live album (Live In Hyde Park). He is also active outside the Red Hot Chili Peppers, having released eight solo albums as well as collaborations with friend Josh Klinghoffer, and Joe Lally of Fugazi. Frusciante was born in Queens, New York, but he moved to Los Angeles at age 12. His father, John Sr., and his mother, Gail Frusciante, were both musicians themselves. Gail even lent her voice to the Red Hot Chili Peppers song, "Under the Bridge". John Frusciante Sr. is the judge who oversaw the recent Clonaid case. Frusciante is known to use mostly vintage guitars, including: 1955 Gretsch White Falcon 195? Gibson ES-335 Two Color Sunburst 1955 Fender Stratocaster Two Color Sunburst(maple