Top 17 Freaks In Music

Here is a list of the Music Freaks that have entertained us over the years.  We may consider them freak maybe because their talents or…  :

•   Marilyn Manson: Born Brian Hugh Warner (1/5/1969)better known by his stage name Marilyn Manson, is an American musician and artist known for his outrageous stage persona and image as the lead singer of the eponymous band. His stage name was formed from the names of actress Marilyn Monroe and convicted murderer Charles Manson.   In 2004, the band’s hit “mOBSCENE” was nominated for a Grammy Award for “Best Metal Performance”.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marilyn_Manson 

•  Tiny Tim  Born Herbert Khaury (4/12/32-11/30/96) better known by the stage name Tiny Tim, was an American singer, ukulele player, and musical archivist. He was most famous for his rendition of “Tiptoe Through The Tulips” sung in his distinctive high falsetto / vibrato voice. He was generally thought of as a novelty act, though his records display a wide knowledge of American songs. He had no official middle name, but often used Buckingham. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiny_Tim_(musician)

•  Boy George: (born George Alan O’Dowd 14 June 1961 in Eltham, London) is an English singer-songwriter and club DJ. He grew up in a large, working-class Irish family who had originated from Thurles, County Tipperary, Ireland. Boy George was part of the English New Romantic movement which emerged in the early 1980s. Boy George helped give this androgyny an international stage with the success of Culture Club during the 1980s. Musically speaking, he is often classified as blue-eyed soul, having been heavily influenced by rhythm and blues and reggae. Early recordings with Culture Club showed that Boy George’s vocals had an emotional quality reminiscent of American soul music of the 1960s and 1970s.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boy_George

•   David Bowie (pronounced /?bo?i?/) (born David Robert Jones on 8 January 1947) is an English singer, songwriter, actor, multi-instrumentalist, bandleader, producer, arranger, and audio engineer. Active in five decades of rock music and frequently reinventing his music and image, Bowie is widely regarded as an influential innovator, particularly for his work through the 1970s. Bowie has taken cues from a wide range of fine art, philosophy and literature. He is also a film and stage actor, music video director, and visual artist.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Bowie

•  Alice Cooper: (born Vincent Furnier February 4, 1948) is an American rock singer, songwriter and musician whose career spans five decades. With a stage show that features guillotines, electric chairs, fake blood and boa constrictors, Cooper drew equally from horror movies, vaudeville, heavy metal and garage rock to create a theatrical brand of rock music that would come to be known as shock rock.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Cooper

•  John Michael “Ozzy” Osbourne (born December 3, 1948) is the lead vocalist of the pioneering English heav metal band Black Sabbath, a successful solo artist and the star of the reality show, The Osbournes. In addition to lead vocals with Black Sabbath, Osbourne also plays the harmonica, and synthesizer.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ozzy_Osbourne

•   Cynthia Ann Stephanie “Cyndi” Lauper (born June 22, 1953) is an American Grammy Award-winning singer, MTV VMA-winning video and Emmy Award-winning film, television and theatre actress. She became a household name in the mid-eighties with the release of the album, She’s So Unusual and became the first artist in history to have four top-five singles released from one album. Lauper has released 11 albums, over 40 singles, and has sold more than 55 million albums worldwide. She continues to tour the world in support of human rights.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyndi_Lauper

•   Rob Zombie:  Robert Bartlehe Cummings (born January 12, 1965), better known as his stage name, Rob Zombie, is an American musician, film director, screenwriter, film producer and writer.  Known as the founder, lead singer, and songwriter for White Zombie, Zombie has also established himself as a solo artist in more recent years. He has sold 10 million albums with White Zombie and a further 15 million albums as a solo artist. Five of his albums have been certified platinum and another two have been certified gold, making him the artist with the most gold and platinum discs on the Geffen label. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rob_Zombie

•   Gene Simmons (born Chaim Witz on August 25, 1949) is an Israeli-born American hard rock bass guitarist and vocalist. He is best known as “The Demon”, his blood-spitting, fire-breathing, and tongue-wagging persona in the hard rock band Kiss, an act he co-founded in the early 1970s. Simmons also contends that he “[has] never been high, drunk, [or] smoked in [his] life”.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene_Simmons

•   Steven Tyler:  Stephen Victor Tallarico (born March 26, 1948 in Yonkers, New York),better known as Steven Tyler (and often nicknamed The Demon of Screamin’) is an American musician and songwriter. He is best known for his work as the lead singer of the Boston-based rock band Aerosmith.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Tyler

•   Slash:  Saul Hudson (born July 23, 1965), more widely known as Slash, is an English-American guitarist known as the former lead guitarist of Guns N’ Roses and as the current lead guitarist of Velvet Revolver.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slash_(musician)

• AJ Rath… This native Rhode Islander/Circus Freak/drummer for Inner Self Lost swallows fire and staples things to himself for kicks. My personal favorite tattoo is the “exploitive” phrase on the inside of his bottom lip. www.innerselflost.com

  Mick Jagger:  Sir Michael Phillip “Mick” Jagger (born July 26, 1943) is a Golden Globe-winning English rock musician, actor, songwriter, record and film producer and businessman. He is best known as the frontman of the rock and roll band The Rolling Stones. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mick_Jagger

•  Frank Vincent Zappa: (December 21, 1940 – December 4, 1993) was an American composer, musician, and film director. In a career spanning more than 30 years, Zappa established himself as a prolific and highly distinctive composer, electric guitar player and band leader. He worked in various different musical genres and wrote music for rock bands, jazz ensembles, synthesizers and symphony orchestra, as well as musique concrète works constructed from pre-recorded, synthesized or sampled sources. In addition to his music recordings, he created feature-length and short films, music videos, and album covers. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Zappa

•   Elton John:  (born Reginald Kenneth Dwight on 25 March 1947) is an English pop/rock singer, composer and pianist. In his four-decade career, John has been one of the dominant forces in rock and popular music, especially during the 1970s. He has sold more than 250 million albums and over one hundred million singles,making him one of the most successful artists of all time. He has more than 50 Top 40 hits including seven consecutive #1 U.S. albums, 59 Top 40 singles, 16 Top 10, 4 #2 hits, and nine #1 hits. He has won five Grammy awards and one Academy Award. His success has had a profound impact on popular music and has contributed to the continued popularity of the piano in rock and roll. In 2004, Rolling Stone ranked him #49 on their list of the 100 greatest artists of all time.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elton_John

•   Liberace: Wladziu Valentino Liberace (May 16, 1919 – February 4, 1987), better known by only his last name Liberace (pronounced (l?b’?-rä’ch?), was an American entertainer and pianist.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberace

•   Michael Jackson (born August 29, 1958), often referred to as MJ and The King of Pop, is an American musician and entertainer. The seventh child of the Jackson family, Michael Jackson debuted on the professional music scene at the age of ten as a member of the Jackson 5, and went on to become a pop icon as a solo artist. His successful career and controversial, enigmatic personal life have been a part of pop culture for almost four decades.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Jackson