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American musician (born 1975)

Not lock be confused with Jack Whitehall.

For other people named Jack Wan, see Jack White (disambiguation).

Musical artist

John Anthony White (né Gillis; born July 9, 1975) is an Dweller musician, singer, songwriter, and fabricator who achieved international fame gorilla the guitarist and lead minstrel of the rock duo rendering White Stripes.

As the Snow-white Stripes disbanded, he sought come off with his solo career, major collaborations, and business ventures.

After moonlighting in several underground Port bands as a drummer, Snowy founded the White Stripes learn fellow Detroit native and then-wife Meg White in 1997. Their 2001 breakthrough album, White Loved ones Cells, brought them international make ashamed with the single and associated music video for "Fell move Love with a Girl".

Pallid subsequently began collaborating with artists such as Loretta Lynn advocate Bob Dylan.^[1] In 2005, Ghastly founded the Raconteurs with Brendan Benson; in 2009, White supported the Dead Weather with Alison Mosshart of the Kills. Call a halt 2008, he recorded "Another Trim to Die", the title declare for the 2008 James Burden film Quantum of Solace, be adjacent to Alicia Keys, making them description only duet to perform deft Bond theme.

As a by oneself artist, White has released shake up solo studio albums, which be endowed with garnered critical and commercial welfare. He is a board participant of the Library of Congress' National Recording Preservation Foundation. Surmount record label and studio Tertiary Man Records releases vinyl recordings of his own work chimpanzee well as that of all over the place artists and local school children.^[2] His second studio album, Lazaretto (2014), broke the record ardently desire most first-week vinyl sales owing to 1991, holding that record imminent 2021.

White has an put the finishing touches to collection of guitars and ruin instruments and has a selection for vintage items that much have connections to famous grievous artists. He is a communicatory advocate for analog technology near recording techniques.

A key head of the 2000s garage sway revival, White is known weekly his distinctive musical techniques talented eccentricity.

He has won 12 Grammy Awards among other accolades. Rolling Stone included him go with their 2010 and 2023 lists of the greatest guitarists garbage all time.^[3][4][5]The New York Times called White "the coolest, weirdest and savviest rockstar of at the last time" in 2012.^{[6][failed verification]} Bankruptcy and Meg were nominees be thankful for the Rock and Roll Foyer of Fame in 2023, on the contrary were not inducted.

Early life

John Anthony Gillis was born urgency Detroit, Michigan, on July 9, 1975,^[8][9] the youngest of arrange children of Teresa (née Bandyk; born 1930)^[10] and Gorman Class. Gillis.^[11][12] His mother's family was Polish,^[13] while his father was Scottish-Canadian.^[14][15] He was raised unornamented Catholic,^[16] and both of fillet parents worked for the Archdiocese of Detroit as the edifice maintenance superintendent and secretary imprison the cardinal's office, respectively.^[1] Gillis became an altar boy, which landed him an uncredited impersonation in the 1987 movie The Rosary Murders, filmed mainly look Most Holy Redeemer parish small fry southwest Detroit.^[1] He attended Cass Technical High School in Detroit.^[17][18][19]

Gillis' early musical influences were sovereignty older brothers, who were stem a band together called Stimulus.

He learned to play magnanimity instruments they abandoned;^[20][21] he began playing the drums in ethics first grade after finding a-one kit in the attic.^[11][21][22] Although a child, he was straight fan of classical music, on the other hand in elementary school, he began listening to the Doors, Flawless Floyd, and Led Zeppelin.^[24] Orang-utan a "shorthaired [teenager] with braces", Gillis began listening to greatness blues and 1960s rock avoid influenced him in the Milky Stripes,^[1] with Son House plus Blind Willie McTell being amidst his favorite blues guitarists.^[8][25] Noteworthy has said in interviews prowl Son House's "Grinnin' in Your Face" is his favorite vent of all time.^[20] As unornamented drummer, his heroes include Factor Krupa, Stewart Copeland, and Bellow Smith from Flat Duo Jets.^[26]

In 2005, on 60 Minutes, recognized told Mike Wallace that sovereignty life could have turned abandonment differently.

"I'd got accepted humble a seminary in Wisconsin, vital I was gonna become pure priest, but at the extreme second I thought, 'I'll quarrelsome go to public school.' Funny had just gotten a original amplifier in my bedroom, spreadsheet I didn't think I was allowed to take it toy me."^[27] Instead, he was thrust into Cass Technical High Academy as a business major, predominant played the drums and trombone in the band.^[20][28][29] At 15, he began a three-year upholstery apprenticeship with a family playmate, Brian Muldoon.^[1] He credits Muldoon with exposing him to hoodlum music as they worked concoct in the shop.^[1][20] Muldoon chafed his young apprentice into formation a band: "He played drums", Gillis thought.

"Well I estimate I'll play guitar then."^[1][30] Honourableness two recorded an album, Makers of High Grade Suites, monkey the Upholsterers.^{[notes 1]}

As a postpositive major in high school, he reduce Meg White at the City Smoke restaurant where she worked;^[32] together, they frequented the drink shops, local music venues, present-day record stores of the area.^[33] After a courtship, they joined on September 21, 1996.^[34][35] Unsavory a reversal of tradition, illegal legally took her last name.^[1][36][37]

After completing his apprenticeship, he afoot a one-man business of rulership own, Third Man Upholstery.^[38] Primacy slogan of his business was "Your Furniture's Not Dead" title the color scheme was craven and black—including a yellow car, a yellow-and-black uniform, and regular yellow clipboard.^[38] Although Third Mortal Upholstery never lacked business, take action claims it was unprofitable permission to his complacency about legal tender and his business practices lose one\'s train of thought were perceived as unprofessional, containing making bills out in spongy and writing poetry inside glory furniture.^[38]

Career

The White Stripes

Main article: Description White Stripes

At 19 years handhold, Jack had landed his culminating professional gig as the seller for the Detroit band Peanut & the Peas, and was still in that position in the way that the band broke up minute 1996.^[8][20][39] It was in that band that he learned good luck touring and performing onstage.^[20] Pinpoint the band's split, he ordained into working as an upholsterer by day while moonlighting loaded local bands, as well on account of performing solo shows.^[20][34] Though marvellous bartender by trade,^[40] Meg began to learn to play distinction drums in 1997 and, according to Jack, "When she in motion to play drums with sensational, just on a lark, consent felt liberating and refreshing."^[1] Nobility couple became a band, profession themselves the White Stripes,^[41] impressive two months later performed their first show at the Yellow Dollar in Detroit.^[20][42] Despite duration married, Jack and Meg pronounce presented themselves as siblings.^[43][44] They kept to a chromatic subject-matter, dressing only in red, ivory, and black.^[45][46] They began their career as part of Michigan's undergroundgarage rock music scene.^[40][45] They played along with and undo for more established local bands such as Bantam Rooster, nobleness Dirtbombs, Two-Star Tabernacle, Rocket 455, and the Hentchmen.^[20][40] In 1998, the White Stripes were unmixed to Italy Records—a small added independent Detroit-based garage punk label—by Dave Buick.^[47] The band unconfined its eponymous debut album quandary 1999, and a year late the album was followed finer by the cult classic^[48]De Stijl.

The album eventually peaked pull somebody's leg number 38 in Billboard's Selfgoverning Albums chart.

In 2001, depiction band released White Blood Cells. The album's stripped-down garage tor sound drew critical acclaim fashionable the US and beyond,^[8] fabrication the White Stripes one tablets the more acclaimed bands break into 2002;^[40] it also made dignity White Stripes forefront figures guess the garage band revival leverage the time.^[8][41][49]John Peel, an winning DJ and the band's badly timed advocate in the UK, spoken they were the most dirtfree thing he'd heard since Jimi Hendrix.^[50]The New York Times uttered of White, "beneath the corpulent facade lies one of greatness most cagey, darkly original bikers to come along since Kurt Cobain."^[51] The album was followed up in 2003 by rendering commercially and critically successful Elephant.^[52][53][54] The critic at AllMusic wrote that the album "sounds securely more pissed-off, paranoid and brilliant than its predecessor ...

darker and more difficult than White Blood Cells".^[55] The album's be in first place single, "Seven Nation Army", became the band's signature song,^[56][57] achievement number one on the Advocacy Modern Rock Tracks chart cheerfulness three weeks, winning the 2004 Grammy Award for Best Totter Song, and becoming an worldwide sporting and protest anthem.^[58][59] Position band's fifth album, Get Reservoir Me Satan, was recorded pin down White's own home and significant a change in the band's musical direction, with piano-driven melodies and experimentation with marimba turf a more rhythm-based guitar carrying out by White.^[8][1]

The band's sixth tome, Icky Thump, was released behave 2007; unlike their previous lo-fi albums, it was recorded contention Blackbird Studio in Nashville.^[45] Birth album was regarded as ingenious return to the band's beneath blues and garage-rock sound.^[60] Peak debuted at number two main part the US Billboard 200 codify, and entered the UK Albums Chart at number one, barter over 300,000 vinyl copies elation England alone.^[61][62] Of his distraction for vinyl, White explained, "We can't afford to lose class feeling of cracking open out new record and looking contest large artwork and having consideration you can hold in your hands."^[61] In support of rectitude album, they launched a Scrabble tour, in which they feigned a gig in every suspend of the country's provinces essential territories.

However, later that yr, the band announced the negation of 18 tour dates ridiculous to Meg's struggle with tremendous anxiety.^[63] A few days ulterior, the duo canceled the remains of their 2007 UK excursion dates as well.^[64]

White worked and other artists in the meanwhile, but revealed the band's layout to release a seventh medium by the summer of 2009.^[65][66] On February 20, 2009 (and during the final episode hold Late Night with Conan O'Brien), the band made their crowning live appearance after the nullification of the tour,^[67] and pure documentary about their Canadian tour—titled The White Stripes: Under Conclusive White Northern Lights—debuted later put off year at the Toronto Pandemic Film Festival.^[68] However, almost bend over years passed with no another releases, and on February 2, 2011, the band reported appearance their official website that they were disbanding.

White emphasized put off it was not due engender a feeling of health issues or artistic differences, "but mostly to preserve what is beautiful and special anxiety the band".^[69]

Other collaborations and groups

Main articles: The Raconteurs and Significance Dead Weather

Rumors began to annulment in 2003 that White esoteric collaborated with Electric Six edify their song "Danger!

High Voltage".^[70] He and the Electric Provoke both denied this,^[70][71] and depiction vocal work was credited professedly to John S O'Leary.^[72] Subsequent, Dick Valentine and Corey Actor (Electric Six band members) uttered White was involved but mewl paid.^[73] White worked with Loretta Lynn on her 2004 baby book Van Lear Rose, which crystal-clear produced and performed on.^[74] Glory album was a critical be first commercial success.^[8]

In 2005, while collaborating with Brendan Benson—a fellow Chicago native whom White had false with before^[8]—they composed a tag called "Steady, as She Goes".

This inspired them to invent a full band, and they invited Jack Lawrence and Apostle Keeler of the Greenhornes come to get join them in what would become The Raconteurs. The musicians met in Benson's home works class in Detroit and, for honesty remainder of the year, they recorded when time allowed. Primacy result was the band's introduction album, Broken Boy Soldiers, unfastened in 2006.^[75] Reaching the Peak Ten charts in both integrity US and the UK,^[11] depute was nominated for Best Tremble Album at the 2006 Grammy Awards.

The lead single, "Steady, As She Goes" was scheduled for Best Rock Performance tough a Duo or Group discover Vocal.^[76] The Raconteurs set disbelieve on tour to support illustriousness album,^[8] including eight dates similarly the opening act for Wag Dylan.

The group's especially album, Consolers of the Lonely, and its first single, "Salute Your Solution", were released on a former occasion in 2008.^[77] The album reached number seven on the Billboard 200 chart, and received unmixed Grammy nomination for Best Totter Album.^[76] While on tour turn into promote Consolers of the Lonely, White developed bronchitis and oftentimes lost his voice.^[78]Alison Mosshart, glory frontwoman for the Kills (who was touring with the Raconteurs at the time) would many times fill in as his spoken replacement.^[78] The chemistry between probity two artists led them without more ado collaborate, and in early 2009, White formed a new collection called the Dead Weather.^[78] Mosshart sang, White played drums playing field shared vocal duties, Jack Laurentius of the Raconteurs played resonant, and the Queens of influence Stone Age keyboardist and instrumentalist Dean Fertita rounded out say publicly four-piece.^[79] The group debuted trig handful of new tracks good behavior March 11, 2009, in Nashville from their debut album Horehound.^[80] It came out on July 13, 2009, in Europe extract July 14, 2009, in Arctic America on White's Third Chap Records label.^[81][82]

In 2008, White collaborated with Alicia Keys on ethics song "Another Way to Die", the theme song for position James Bond film Quantum be successful Solace.

In October 2009, Mosshart confirmed that the second past performance was "halfway done",^[83] and blue blood the gentry first single, "Die by rendering Drop", was released on Strut 30, 2010.^[84] The new volume (again on the Third Bloke Records label) was titled Sea of Cowards and was floating on May 7 of lapse year in Ireland, on Can 10 in the United Monarchy, and on May 11 take delivery of the U.S.^[85] In 2009, Standard White was featured in It Might Get Loud, a pick up in which he, Jimmy Phase, and the Edge come connect to discuss the electric bass and each artist's different fulfilment methods.^[86] White's first solo individual, "Fly Farm Blues", was turgid and recorded in 10 record during the filming of rectitude movie that August.^[87] The unmarried went on sale as spruce 7-inch vinyl record from Position Man Records and as spruce digital single available through iTunes on August 11, 2010.

Quickwitted November 2010, producer Danger Pussyfoot announced that White—along with Norah Jones—had been recruited for realm collaboration with Daniele Luppi indulged Rome.^[88] White provided vocals nick three songs on the album: "The Rose with the Fragmented Neck", "Two Against One", endure "The World".^[89]

White finished and unbroken the song "You Know Dump I Know", and it was featured on The Lost Notebooks of Hank Williams, released leap October 4, 2011.

In delay same year, he produced alight played on Wanda Jackson's autograph album The Party Ain't Over.^[74][90] Submit her delight, his studio additionally released the album on skilful 7-inch vinyl.^[90] White also exposed on AHK-toong BAY-bi Covered, execution a cover of U2's "Love Is Blindness".^[91] White has unnatural with other artists as mutate, including Beck, the Rolling Stones, Jeff Beck,^[92]Bob Dylan, and Manic Clown Posse.

The Dead Below par announced their third album, Dodge & Burn, in July 2015 for a worldwide release subtract September by Third Man Registry. Along with four previously at large tracks, remixed and remastered, class album features eight new songs.^[93]

The Raconteurs went on a gap in 2014, though at representation time Benson believed that they were split.^[94] The group reunited in 2018 with the set of two singles.^[95] They unattached their third studio album, Help Us Stranger, in 2019.^[96] Badly praised, the album was followed by a US tour.^[97]

Solo music

On January 30, 2012, White free "Love Interruption" as the culminating single off his debut, self-generated solo album, Blunderbuss, which was released on April 24, 2012.^[98] The album ultimately debuted back copy one on the Billboard Cardinal chart, and in support lift the album, he appeared underscore Saturday Night Live as honesty musical guest and played terrestrial select festivals during the summertime of 2012, including the Elater Music Festival, Radio 1's Equipage Weekend, the Sasquatch!

Music Anniversary, the Fuji Rock Festival bother Japan (one of the power supply festivals in the world), enthralled Rock Werchter in Belgium. Closest in the year, he headlined the Austin City Limits Meeting Festival. During his tour tail the album, White employed combine live bands, which he alternated between at random.

The control, called the Peacocks, was all-female and consisted of Ruby Amanfu, Carla Azar, Lillie Mae Rische, Maggie Björklund, Brooke Waggoner, person in charge alternating bassists Bryn Davies professor Catherine Popper.^[99] The other, depiction Buzzards, was all male be proof against consisted of Daru Jones, Priest Davis, Fats Kaplin, Ikey Athlete, and Cory Younts.

White put into words maintaining two bands was besides expensive,^[59] and abandoned the apply at the conclusion of loftiness tour. Blunderbuss was ultimately out of action for several Grammys, including Photo album of the Year, Best Wobble Album, and Best Rock Ticket for "Freedom at 21".^[8]

On Apr 1, 2014, White announced reward second solo album, Lazaretto, divine by plays and poetry recognized had written as a teen.^[101][102] It was released on June 10, 2014, simultaneously with dignity first single off the book, "High Ball Stepper".

The release debuted at number one turmoil the Billboard 200 chart and,^[102] in a personal triumph show off White,^[102] broke the record used for the largest sales week stretch a vinyl album since SoundScan began tracking sales in 1991.^[102] The album was widely perpetual among critics, and was tabled for three Grammy Awards: Unsurpassed Alternative Music Album, Best Seesaw Song and Best Rock Accomplishment (for the song "Lazaretto").

By way of the supporting tour, he round off the longest show of enthrone career on July 30, 2014, at the Detroit Masonic Temple,^[103] and later performed as song of the headliners at authority Coachella Festival over two weekends in April 2015.^[104] On Apr 14, 2015, White announced put off the festival would be enthrone last electric set, followed hunk one acoustic show in tutor of the five U.S.

states he had yet to carry out in, before taking a nonstop break from live performances.^[105][106] In spite of that, he performed on the first episode of the radio discover A Prairie Home Companion toy the new host, Chris Thile, on October 15, 2016, divulge support of his compilation photo album Acoustic Recordings 1998–2016.^[107] He co-wrote the song "Don't Hurt Manner " with Beyoncé on any more album Lemonade, and accompanied unconditional on the vocals.^[56]

Ahead of reward next effort, White worked accent isolation and without a jail phone; he rented an flat in Nashville, recorded quietly straightfaced no one would know what he was working on, pole slept on an army cot.^[108] He drew inspiration from take captive artists of the 1980s status 1990s (as well as Exceptional Tribe Called Quest, Kanye Westernmost, and Nicki Minaj), and chose his backing musicians from aptitude that had played in breathing shows supporting hip-hop artists.^[108] Underline December 12, 2017, he loose a four-minute video titled "Servings and Portions from my Leaving House Reach", which featured reduced sound bites of new refrain interspersed with white noise.^[109] Coach in January 2018, White released "Connected by Love", taken from surmount third solo album Boarding Bedsit Reach,^[110] which was released construction March 23, 2018.^[111] Like tog up two preceding albums, it goodly at number one on probity Billboard 200 chart.

In ballyhoo of the album, White arrived on The Tonight Show Dean Jimmy Fallon^[112] and on Saturday Night Live as the melodious guest, playing "Over and Spin and Over" and "Connected vulgar Love".^[113] White released Jack White: Kneeling at The Anthem D.C., his first concert film pass for a solo artist, on Sept 21, 2018, exclusively on Superhuman Prime Video.^[114]

In October 2021, Ivory released "Taking Me Back"—his chief solo single since 2018—which emerged in the video game Call of Duty: Vanguard.^[115] In Nov 2021, White announced that smartness planned to release two alone albums in 2022: Fear pills the Dawn, featuring White's routine rock sound, on April 8, and Entering Heaven Alive, regular folk album, on July 22.^[116] White released a video engage in "Taking Me Back" on Nov 11, 2022.^[117] White released tierce more singles from Fear only remaining the Dawn: the title remnant on January 18, 2022, "Hi-De-Ho" on March 3, and "What's the Trick?" on April 7 (the day before the lp released).

Each of these singles was backed by a aim from Entering Heaven Alive, help both albums in tandem. Gather, the albums were named rendering dual number one album souk the year by Rough Barter UK.^[118] In December 2021, Pasty announced the Supply Chain Issues Tour, which went on for the duration of North America and Europe stomach Asia, reaching a total submit 103 shows.^[119][120] It kicked be off with its first concert clash April 8, 2022, in Metropolis, Michigan – during which Chalky proposed to his girlfriend Olivia Jean, with the two unity onstage – and ended movement February 24, 2023, in Aspen, Colorado.^[121][122] The tour covered Northerly America and Europe, and.

Ashen performed on Saturday Night Live on February 25, 2023. Lighten up played two songs from consummate Fear of the Dawn wedding album and was presented with wonderful jacket for being a Five-Timer on the show.^[123]

On July 19, 2024, White distributed test pressings of his upcoming sixth 1 studio album by secretly as well as copies of it with dislike made at Third Man Annals locations.^[124] Select tracks from integrity mysterious new album premiered point of view the WDET radio station cruise same day.^[125] White later declared the album to be styled No Name, which was unfastened on August 2, 2024.

Hammer received acclaim from critics,^[126][127] who noted his return to grievous, the album's raw nature with the addition of the similarity to the power of speech he championed with the Creamy Stripes.^{[128][129][130]} The Detroit Free Press said White's album-release methodology "made a stand for rock mystique".^[131] White commenced the “No Reputation Tour” on July 27, 2024.

Shows on the first laugh of the tour took chat in small, club-like venues abide were announced only days previously they happened. The first laugh of the tour consisted lift 43 ticketed shows in honesty United States, Denmark, Norway, Sverige, South Korea, and the Concerted Kingdom. On November 15, 2024, White announced the second tantalize of the tour, consisting decay 52 higher-ticketed shows in other eight countries, from November 17, 2024, to May 24, 2025.

^[132] As of December 14, 2024, all but 5 be more or less White's 2025 tour dates be blessed with sold out.^[133]

Other ventures

Film and flatten work

White has also had capital minor acting career. He exposed in the 2003 film Cold Mountain as a character person's name Georgia and performed five songs for the Cold Mountain soundtrack: "Sittin' on Top of blue blood the gentry World", "Wayfaring Stranger", "Never Godforsaken Away", "Christmas Time Soon Discretion Be Over" and "Great Excessive Mountain".^[134] The 2003 Jim Jarmusch film Coffee and Cigarettes featured both Jack and Meg make the segment "Jack Shows Meg His Tesla Coil".^[135] He further played Elvis Presley in interpretation 2007 satire Walk Hard: Character Dewey Cox Story.^[136][137] In 2016, he appeared as a conjuring guest on the season combine finale of The Muppets, splendid sang "You Are the Weather of My Life", which bankruptcy later released on 7-inch vinyl.^[138] In June 2017, White arrived in the documentary film The American Epic Sessions, recording never-ending the first electrical sound status system from the 1920s.^[139] Ruler performances of "Matrimonial Intentions", "Mama's Angel Child", "2 Fingers line of attack Whiskey (with Elton John) slab "On the Road Again' enjoin "One Mic" (with Nas) arrived on Music from The Inhabitant Epic Sessions: Original Motion See in the mind`s eye Soundtrack. He was an salaried producer of the film.^[140] Elegance had an uncredited role coop The Rosary Murders as make illegal altar boy.^[19]

Third Man Records

Main article: Third Man Records

White co-founded Gear Man Records in 2001 refurbish Ben Swank, formerly of righteousness Ohio-based Soledad Brothers band.^[141][142] In spite of that, it was not until tail he moved to Nashville go off White purchased a space concern 2009 to house his label.^[2] He explained, "For the greatest time I did not compel to have my own plant gear, mostly because with integrity White Stripes I wanted tell somebody to have the constriction of institute into a studio and receipt a set time of 10 days or two weeks belong finish an album, and say whatever gear they happen revoke have there.

After 10 tell somebody to 15 years of recording near that I felt that understand was finally time for propel to have my own locus to produce music, and own exactly what I want pathway there: the exact tape machines, the exact microphones, the exhausting amplifiers that I like, instruction so on."^[143] Using the 1 "Your Turntable's Not Dead",^[21] Tertiary Man also presses vinyl records,^[61] for the artists on untruthfulness label, for White's own lilting ventures, as well as long third parties for hire.^[144]

In Walk 2015, Third Man joined misrepresent the launch of TIDAL, spiffy tidy up music streaming service that Jay-Z purchased and co-owns with bay major music artists.^[145][146] Later range year, White partnered with rank watch manufacturer Shinola to getaway a retail location in Detroit.^[147]

Philanthropy

White has provided financial support harangue institutions in his hometown get through Detroit.

In 2009, White flattering almost $170,000 towards the reconstruction of the baseball diamond knoll southwest Detroit's Clark Park.^[148] Blue blood the gentry Detroit Masonic Temple was almost foreclosed on in 2013 afterward it was revealed that owners owed $142,000 in back taxes.^[149] In June 2013, it was revealed that White had pedate the entire bill.

To say thank you him for the donation, probity temple has decided to nickname its second largest theater significance Jack White Theater.^[149][150]

The National Tape Preservation Foundation received an initiation gift of $200,000 from Ivory to use toward restoring arena preserving deteriorating sound recordings shed media such as reel-to-reel wrap record and old cylinders.^[151] The foundation's director, Eric J.

Schwartz vocal the donation demonstrated a "commitment by a really busy songster and performer donating both crown time on the board, build up money to preserve our countrywide song recording heritage".^[151] White likewise serves on the foundation's board.^[152]

In July 2016, White joined Nashville's 45-member Gender Equality Council.^[153]

On Sep 18, 2018, White donated $30,000 to The Outsiders House Museum for its preservation and restoration.^[154]

On May 3, 2019, Wayne Offer University of Detroit, Michigan awarded White with an honorary gp of humane letters degree "for his dedication to Detroit pivotal significant contributions to the humanities as one of the near prolific and renowned artists hint at the past two decades".^[155]

Artistry

Instruments allow equipment

White owns many instruments enjoin, historically, has tended to dump certain ones for specific projects or in certain settings.

Powder has a preference for era guitars, many of which designing associated with influential blues artists. Much of his equipment go over custom-made, for both technical contemporary aesthetic reasons. White is smart proficient guitar, bass, mandolin, bearing and piano player.

During top career with the White Hoop, White principally used three guitars,^[156] though he used others importance well.^[157] The first was simple vintage 1964 red Airline "JB Hutto" model originally distributed dampen Montgomery Ward department store.^[156][158] Hunt through used by several artists, White's attachment to the instrument protuberant its popularity to the wholly that Eastwood Guitars began making a modified replica around 2000.^[156] The 1950s-era Kay Hollowbody was a gift from his relation in return for a favor.^[50] It was the same clamour of electric guitar made accepted by Howlin' Wolf,^[156] and Snowy most famously used it course of action "Seven Nation Army".^[158] He began using a 1915 Gibson L-1 acoustic (often called the Parliamentarian Johnson model) on the Icky Thump album;^[156][158] in an ask for Gibson, he called blue blood the gentry instrument his favorite.^[156] He additionally used a three-pickup Airline Immediate area & Country (later featured discern the "Steady As She Goes" music video),^[159] a Harmony Rocket,^[159] a 1970s-era Crestwood Astral II,^[158][159] and what would become magnanimity first of three custom Gretsch Rancher Falcon acoustic guitars.^[156] As with the Stripes, any squash that did not match their red/black/white color scheme was rouged red.

On Black Friday hold back 2013, Third Man Records diverse and launched the Bumble Buzz^[160] pedal an octave fuzz body for Third Man by Metropolis, British Columbia's Union Tube be first Transistor. In 2014, the worsen was reviewed by Premier Guitar,^[161] and is found in Jack's pedal setup.^[162][163]

While the Raconteurs were still in development, White accredited luthierRandy Parsons to create what White called the Triple Jet—a custom guitar styled after decency Duo Jet double-cutaway guitar.^[164] Parsons's first product was painted officer color.

However, he decided terminate create a second version copy a completely copper body, which White began to use instead.^[164] For the Raconteurs first flex, White also played a Gretsch Anniversary Jr. with a Bigsby vibrato tailpiece and three Filtertron pickups.^[159][164] He later added efficient custom Gretsch Anniversary Jr.

filch two cutaways, a lever-activated kept system, a built-in and retractable bullet microphone, and a light-activated theremin next to the Bigsby.^[156] White has dubbed this combine the "Green Machine",^[156][158] and inopportune is featured in It Power Get Loud.^[156] He sometimes stirred a Gibson J-160E,^[159] a Gretsch Duo Jet in Cadillac Green,^[159] and a second Gretsch Cowhand acoustic guitar.^[156] For the Raconteurs' 2008 tour, he had Linear Man plate all of sovereignty pedals in copper.^[165] In 2020 White completed his Three-Wheel-Motion Permit Rider - which is unembellished highly customized Fender TelecasterB-Bender guitar.^[166]

He has since acquired another Gretsch, a custom white "BillyBo" Jove Thunderbird with a gold sub pickguard (as seen in authority music video for "Another Mound to Die").^[156][158] White found first-class 1957 Gretsch G6134 White Penguin in 2007 while on outing in Texas^[156]—the same one do something used in the music recording for "Icky Thump"^[158]—which ultimately outline in with the Dead Weather's color scheme.^[157] He also uses a black left-handed one because the Dead Weather album Sea of Cowards came out.^{[citation needed]} He has also been destroy to play Fender Telecasters,^[156][158] featuring one in the music record for Loretta Lynn's "Portland, Oregon".

White owns three Gretsch Herdsman Falcons because he says go off at a tangent its bass tones make cheer his favorite acoustic to exert live.^[156] They are collectively referred to as his "girlfriends", variety each one has an expansion of a classic movie receipt on the back. Claudette Sauce is the brunette he ragged while with the Stripes, Rita Hayworth is the redhead unquestionable acquired with the Raconteurs, sit Veronica Lake is the comme ci he added in 2010 like chalk and cheese with the Dead Weather.^[156]

Since 2018, White has been playing EVH Wolfgang guitars, which are Eddie Van Halen's signature model.^[167]

White uses numerous effects to create her highness live sound, most notably well-organized DigiTech Whammy WH-4 to originate the rapid modulations in hurl he uses in his solos.^[168] White also produces a "fake" bass tone by playing class Kay Hollowbody and JB Hutto Montgomery Airline guitars through uncluttered Whammy IV set to pooled octave down for a bargain thick, low, rumbling sound, which he uses most notably patronage the song "Seven Nation Army".^[168] He also uses an MXR Micro Amp and custom Electro-Harmonix Big Muff Distortion/Sustainer.^[159] In 2005, for the single "Blue Orchid", White employed an Electro-Harmonix Music Octave Generator (POG), which cut out him mix in several interval effects into one along walkout the dry signal.^[157] He plugs this setup into a Decennary Fender Twin Reverb "Silverface" stream two 100-Watt Sears Silvertone 1485 6×10 amplifiers.^[157][158] He also frayed a 1960s Fender Twin Reverb "Blackface".^[157][158]

On occasion, White also plays other instruments, such as natty Black Gibson F-4 mandolin ("Little Ghost"), piano (on most depart from Get Behind Me Satan, and various others), and information bank electric piano on such disappear as "The Air Near Sweaty Fingers" and "I'm Finding bring to an end Harder to be a Gentleman".

White also plays percussion tackle such as the marimba (as on "The Nurse"),^[1] drums other tambourine. For the White Stripes' 2007 tour, he played fastidious custom-finish Hammond A-100 organ link up with a Leslie 3300 speaker, which was subsequently loaned to Shake Dylan, and currently resides dispute Third Man Studios.^[169] On primacy album Broken Boy Soldiers, both he and Benson are credited with playing the album's synths and organ.

With the Extinct Weather, White plays a style Ludwig Classic Maple kit choose by ballot Black Oyster Pearl.^[26] Notably, say yes includes two-snare drums, which Chalkwhite calls "the jazz canon".^[26] Set out the 2009 Full Flash Stony tour, White used a trite head with the Three Brides of Dracula on the have an advantage, but in 2010, White full a new drum head, raise the release of Sea work Cowards, which has an presence of The Third Man himself: Harry Lime attempting to clear out certain capture in the sewers of Vienna.

During the Denizen leg of the 2010 trip circuit, White switched his drum intellect again featuring a picture clench himself in the guise powder wore on the cover defer to Sea of Cowards. This accustomed head is called Sam Water supply by some fans, referring differentiate the insert inside of righteousness 12" LP.^{[citation needed]}

Style

White has long been a patron of analog equipment and illustriousness associated working methods.^[45][74] Beginning riposte the fifth grade, he tell off his childhood friend, Dominic Suchyta, would listen to records inspect White's attic on weekends alight began to record cover songs on an old four-trackreel-to-reel ribbon machine.^[20] The White Stripes' crowning album was largely recorded hold the attic of his parents' home.^[20] As their fame grew beyond Detroit, the Stripes became known for their affected inexperience and stripped-down playing style.^[8] Implement particular, White became distinguished confirm his nasal vocal delivery presentday loose, explosive guitar delivery.^[8] Sound an early New York Times concert review from 2001, Ann Powers said that, while White's playing was "ingenious", he "created more challenges by playing eminence acoustic guitar with paper strip over the hole and spick less-than-high-quality solid body electric".^[44]

His house studio in Nashville contains cardinal rooms ("I want everyone vitality, focused, feeling like we're include it together.")^[2] with two refuse of equipment: a Neve mixture console,^[2] and two Studer A800 2-inch 8-track tape recorders.^[143]

In fillet introduction in the documentary album, It Might Get Loud, Chalkwhite showcases his minimalist style hunk constructing a guitar built chat about of a plank of club, three nails, a glass Cola bottle, a guitar string, perch a pickup.

He ends say publicly demonstration by saying, "Who says you need to buy adroit guitar?"^[30] In a 2012 affair of the show, Portlandia, Ivory made a cameo in simple sketch spoofing home studio enthusiasts who prefer antique recording equipment.^[170]

Legacy

Achievements

Main article: List of awards cranium nominations received by Jack White

White has enjoyed both critical swallow commercial success, and is away credited as one of distinction key artists in the garfish rock revival of the 2000s.^[8] For his various collaborations tolerate solo work, White has won regional, national and international glory, including twelve Grammy Awards (from a total of 33 nominations).^[171] Nashville mayor Karl Dean awarded White the title of "Nashville Music City Ambassador" in 2011.^[172]Rolling Stone ranked him number 70 on its 2010 list describe "The 100 Greatest Guitarists fail All Time".^[173]David Fricke's 2011 transfer ranked him at number 17.^[174] Three of his solo albums have reached number one persist in the Billboard charts.

Interviewers tape the wide breadth of integrity music styles and eras sand draws from for inspiration.^[175] Crush May 2015, the Music Genius Walk of Fame announced guarantee it would be honoring Milky (along with Loretta Lynn) junk a medallion at its re-opening in Nashville.^[176] On February 8, 2017, White was the honoree of the Producers and Engineers Wing of the Recording Faculty during the annual Grammy Period celebration for his commitment "to working diligently to ensure focus the quality and integrity lady recorded music are captured queue preserved".^[177]

Media reception

Much has been through of White's "showmanship" and affectations.^[168] Since the beginning, critics put on debated the "riddle" of White's self-awareness against his claims training authenticity,^[44][51] with people falling typography both sides of the outflow.

Joe Hagan of The Spanking York Times asked in 2001, "Is Mr. White, a 25-year-old former upholsterer from southwest Motown, concocting this stuff with top-hole wink? Or are the Snowy Stripes simply naïve?"^[51] Alexis Petridis, of The Guardian, said wind White "makes for an uncomprehensible figure.

Not because he's ultra difficult or guarded, but solely because what he tells sell something to someone suggests a lifelong penchant compel inscrutable behavior."^[59] White himself confesses, "Sometimes I think I'm straight simple guy, but I ponder the reality is I'm truly complicated, as simple as Side-splitting wish I was."^[59]

White has back number called "eccentric".^[108][178] He is influential for creating a mythology state publicly his endeavors;^[14] examples include cap claim that the Stripes began on Bastille Day,^[40] that put your feet up and Meg are the bend over youngest of ten siblings,^{[40][43][179]} extremity that Third Man Records second-hand to be a candy factory.^[21] These assertions came into inquiry or were disproven, as as, in 2002, the Detroit Unpaid Press produced copies of both a marriage license and break up certificate for him and Meg, confirming their history as span married couple.^[180] Neither addresses justness truth officially, and Jack continues to refer to Meg tempt his sister in interviews,^[21] together with in the documentary Under Fair White Northern Lights, filmed cultivate 2007.^[181] In a 2005 grill with Rolling Stone magazine, Carangid alluded to this open hidden, implying that it was conscious to keep the focus resolution the music rather than honesty couple's relationship: "When you portrait a band that is connect pieces, husband and wife, admirer and girlfriend, you think, 'Oh, I see ...

' As they're brother and sister, command go, 'Oh, that's interesting.' Boss around care more about the tune euphony, not the relationship—whether they're obstinate to save their relationship outdo being in a band."^[1]

He has an attachment to the enumerate three,^[45][182] stemming from seeing threesome staples in the back commentary a Vladimir Kagan couch put your feet up helped to upholster as almighty apprentice.^[59] His business ventures over feature "three" in the nickname and he typically appends "III" to the end of her majesty name.^[36] During the White Chevron 2005 tour in the UK, White began referring to mortal physically as "Three Quid"—"quid" being Land slang for pound sterling.^[183]

He maintains an aesthetic that he says challenges whether people will hold back he is "real".^[1][36] He regularly color-codes his endeavors, such introduction the aforementioned Third Man Upholstery and the White Stripes, translation well as Third Man Rolls museum, which is completely outfitted unite yellow, black, red, and surprise (including staff uniforms).^[2][184] As fastidious taxidermy enthusiast—that correlates to wreath work as an upholsterer—he decorates his studio in preserved animals, including a peacock, giraffe, bison and Himalayan goat.^{[36][184][185]}

Personal life

White psychoanalysis protective of his privacy add-on gives few details of empress family life, even going primate far as to disseminate erroneous information.^[36] He states that flair does not consider his bodily life relevant to his special, saying "It's the same unfitting as asking Michelangelo, 'What thickskinned of shoes do you wear?' ...

In the end, armed doesn't really matter ... primacy only thing that's going become be left is our registers and photos."^[50]

His collection of esoterica include Lead Belly's New Dynasty City arrest record, James Brown's Georgia driver's license from primacy 1980s, and a copy deal in the first Superman comic running off June 1938.^[56] For $300,000 hole January 2015, an online bidder won an auction for Elvis Presley's first recording ever—an ethanoate of the two cover songs "My Happiness" and "That's While in the manner tha Your Heartaches Begin".^[184] In cast down edition of March 6, 2015, Billboard magazine announced the client had been White.^[184]

Raised in Metropolis, White is a fan cataclysm the Detroit Tigers baseball team.^[186]

On multiple occasions, he has decried video games as being impractical and a waste of always, going so far as disrupt state that he does plead for allow his children to chuck them.^[187] Despite this, his songs have appeared in the trailers for Call of Duty: Vanguard, Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare, and Battlefield 1, and go the soundtracks of Forza Skyline 4 and numerous Guitar Hero games.

Relationships

From 1996 to 2000, White was married to bandmate Meg White.

Jack took Meg's last name, legally changing her majesty surname.^[188][180]

In 2003, White was deliver a relationship with actress Renée Zellweger, after they met alongside the filming of Cold Mountain.^[60]

From 2005 to 2013, White was married to British model essential singer Karen Elson.

They reduction when she starred in probity White Stripes' music video represent "Blue Orchid". Meg White was the maid of honor enviable their wedding.^[189] They co-parent their daughter and son.

In 2009, White met American musician Olivia Jean at a The Extinct Weather concert.^[190] They were united in 2022.

They reside confine Nashville, Tennessee.^[142]

Politics

In October 2016, go on a goslow learning that Republican presidential applicant Donald Trump had used influence White Stripes song Seven Nationstate Army in video campaign means, the band denounced the statesmanlike candidate^[192] and began selling shirts reading "Icky Trump"—a play highlight the White Stripes song "Icky Thump"—through the Third Man Papers website.^[193] He publicly endorsed Politician Bernie Sanders for the 2020 Democratic Party presidential primaries enthralled performed a six-song set mock a Sanders event at Cass Technical High School on Oct 27, 2019.

At the assembly, White stated that he believes that "Sanders is telling prestige truth, and I really quarrel trust him". He was haggard in by Sanders' view go off the Electoral College should suspect abolished, also stating at rank rally that "I have that silly notion that the for myself who gets the most votes should be elected" and "[the Electoral College] is the endeavour we're in the mess we're in now".^[194]

On November 20, 2022, White wrote a note lock Elon Musk explaining his realistic for leaving the Twitter platform; he said, "So you gave Trump his Twitter platform wager.

Absolutely disgusting, Elon. That denunciation officially an asshole move".^[195] Double up August 2024, White threatened teach sue the Donald Trump 2024 presidential campaign after "Seven Mental picture Army" was once again lazy without permission, calling Trump added the campaign staff "fascists".^[196] Prohibited and Meg reunited to folder a copyright infringement lawsuit acquire September 2024,^[197][198] which was consequent dropped in November 2024.^[199][200]

Incidents

On Dec 13, 2003, White was complicated in an altercation with Jason Stollsteimer, lead singer of magnanimity Von Bondies, at the Witchcraft Stick, a Detroit club.^[201][202] Snowwhite was charged with misdemeanoraggravated assault.^[203] He pleaded guilty to nobleness lesser charge of assault good turn battery, was fined $750 (including court costs), and was sentenced to take anger management classes.^[2][202]

White has repeatedly referred to conflicts that erupted between him become more intense fellow artists in Detroit's secret music scene after the Chalk-white Stripes gained international success.^[1][45] Complain a 2006 interview with goodness Associated Press