Prince William
Famous Astronauts
Nelson Mandela
Kanye West
My Ghost Story
I Survived
Liberace
Leonardo DiCaprio
Annie Oakley
I Survived
1 photo
Quick Facts
Best Known For
Jack White is best known for singing and playing guitar with Meg White in the band the White Stripes.
Quiz
Think you know about Biography?
Answer questions and see how you rank against other players.
Play NowJack White. (2013). The Biography Channel website. Retrieved 02:49, Jun 19, 2013, from http://www.biography.com/people/jack-white-20631851.
Jack White. [Internet]. 2013. The Biography Channel website. Available from: http://www.biography.com/people/jack-white-20631851 [Accessed 19 Jun 2013].
"Jack White." 2013. The Biography Channel website. Jun 19 2013, 02:49 http://www.biography.com/people/jack-white-20631851.
"Jack White," The Biography Channel website, 2013, http://www.biography.com/people/jack-white-20631851 [accessed Jun 19, 2013].
"Jack White," The Biography Channel website, http://www.biography.com/people/jack-white-20631851 (accessed Jun 19, 2013).
Jack White [Internet]. The Biography Channel website; 2013 [cited 2013 Jun 19] Available from: http://www.biography.com/people/jack-white-20631851.
Jack White, http://www.biography.com/people/jack-white-20631851 (last visited Jun 19, 2013).
Jack White. The Biography Channel website. 2013. Available at: http://www.biography.com/people/jack-white-20631851. Accessed Jun 19, 2013.
Icky Thump, released in 2007 and featuring the singles "Icky Thump," Rag and Bone" and "You Don't Know What Love Is (You Just Do as You're Told)," then became the band's third consecutive album to win the Best Alternative Album Grammy Award.
As it turned out, Icky Thump would also be the duo's last album. After a long hiatus, the White Stripes officially announced their dissolution on February 2, 2011. The band's official website explained,
Contents
"The reason is not due to artistic differences or lack of wanting to continue, nor any health issues as both Meg and Jack are feeling fine and in good health. It is for a myriad of reasons, but mostly to preserve what is beautiful and special about the band and have it stay that way."
After the White Stripes
The White Stripes were one of the most popular and influential rock bands of the early 2000s, but they were only the first of Jack White's three bands to make a mark on the decade. The second, The Raconteurs, got their start in 2005, when White and his friend and fellow musician Brendan Benson spent some time jamming in a Nashville attic while White was taking a short break from his duties with The White Stripes. That night the pair ended up writing "Steady, As She Goes," which would eventually become a hit single. Inspired by the song they had written, Benson and White decided to form a full band, adding Jack Lawrence and Patrick Keeler of The Greenhornes to round out the lineup. After several months of recording, the band's full-length debut album, Broken Boy Soldiers, debuted in 2006, instantly cracking the charts in the top ten in both the United States and Great Britain. Mojo magazine named the record its album of the year, and the Raconteurs won two nominations (but no awards) at the 2007 Grammy Awards.
The Raconteurs released a second album, Consolers of the Lonely, in 2008, touring extensively for the first time since 2006.
Recent Projects
Meanwhile, Jack White and fellow Raconteur Jack Lawrence were getting ready to launch yet another alt-rock supergroup, The Dead Weather, alongside Alison Mosshart of The Kills and Dean Fertita of Queens of the Stone Age. In contrast to The White Stripes, where White sang lead vocals and played the guitars, in The Dead Weather he played the drums. (Mosshart took over lead vocals duty, while Fertita played lead guitar and Lawrence played bass.) The band was conceived in an informal jam session, but ended up recording two full albums: Horehound (2009) and Sea of Coward (2010). Both debuted in the top ten of the U.S. Billboard album chart.
In 2011, all four members of The Dead Weather went back to playing with their other bands, but not without promising that they would soon reunite.
Even with three chart-topping bands on his resume, the prolific White continued to involve himself in a variety of other well-received side projects. In 2005, he produced Loretta Lynn's highly praised comeback album Van Lear Rose, helping the country music legend reach a new generation of fans. In 2011, he played a similar role in orchestrating The Party Ain't Over, a late-career comeback record from Wanda Jackson, who had earned the title "Queen of Rockabilly" half a century earlier.
profile name: Jack White profile occupation:
Your Connections
Sign in with Facebook to see how you and your friends are connected to famous icons.
Profile Connections
Included In These Groups
-
Guitar Heroes
View groupThey've set their instruments on fire, broken them over their heads, played them behind their backs, learned how to make them screech, and—above all—shown the world what it means to truly rock a guitar. Here is a group of some of the most legendary guitarists of the modern era.
Guitar Heroes 21 people in this group
-
Musical Monikers
View groupWhen musicians land big fame, there typically comes a moment of reinvention in which the "rock star" identity is born. This new persona often requires a new name, a way to differentiate between the private and public versions of themselves. Musical monikers take different forms, from the simple, last-name changes aimed at boosting celebrity appeal—like Steven Tyler—to the glamorized version of a childhood nickname—like Jay-Z. Musicians' nicknames and aliases tend to take on an identity all their own over time, often becoming as full of personality as the artists they represent.
Musical Monikers 108 people in this group
-
James Bond Soundtrack Artists
View groupBond—James Bond—was introduced to movie fans with the release of the first 007 film, Dr. No, in 1962. The past five decades of James Bond films have included a gamut of soundtrack artists, including Paul McCartney & Wings, who performed the song "Live and Let Die" for the Bond film of the same name; Shirley Bassey, who sang tracks for the films Diamonds Are Forever and Goldfinger; Jack White and Alicia Keys, who performed "Another Way to Die" for Quantum of Solace; Gladys Knight, who sang the title track for License to Kill; Louis Armstrong, who performed "We Have All the Time in the World" (secondary theme) for On Her Majesty's Secret Service; and Adele, who sang the title track for the newest film of the Bond franchise, Skyfall.
James Bond Soundtrack Artists 23 people in this group
