Daniel "Dee" Snider was born on March 15,1955 and is an American singer, songwriter, radio personality, and actor.
49 Facts About Dee Snider
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Dee Snider was the lead singer and songwriter of the heavy metal band Twisted Sister.
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Dee Snider was ranked 83 in the Hit Parader's Top 100 Metal Vocalists of All Time.
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Dee Snider's father, Bob, is a retired New York State Trooper and Nassau County court clerk, and his mother, Marguerite, is a retired art teacher.
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Dee Snider's father is Jewish, whereas his mother is from a Catholic family of Swiss descent.
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Dee Snider graduated from Baldwin Senior High School in 1973.
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In early 1976, Dee Snider joined Twisted Sister and became the band's sole songwriter.
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In 1985, Dee Snider was involved in a Senate hearing instigated by the Parents Music Resource Center, which sought to introduce a parental warning system that would label all albums containing offensive material.
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Tipper Gore and Dee Snider had a publicly antagonistic relationship as a consequence, with Dee Snider accusing her of having a "dirty mind" for alleging that the lyrics of "Under the Blade" contained sadomasochistic undertones, when they were in fact about medical surgery.
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Dee Snider alleged during the Senate hearing that Tipper Gore had fabricated evidence concerning merchandise sold by the band when she stated that "the t-shirts that kids wear" featured "Twisted Sister and a woman in handcuffs sort of spread-eagled".
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Dee Snider challenged her to produce such a shirt, to which Al Gore clarified that "the word 't-shirts' was in plural, and one of them referred to Twisted Sister and the other referred to a woman in handcuffs".
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In 1993, Dee Snider composed the theme song for The Terrible Thunderlizards.
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In 1998, Dee Snider penned a song entitled "The Magic of Christmas Day ", which Celine Dion recorded for her album These Are Special Times.
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Dee Snider penned the script to a sequel with the working title of Strangeland: Disciple.
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In May 2009, Dee Snider revealed on his radio show "The House of Hair" that Strangeland: Rising Sons would go ahead and was set to begin shooting in the fall of 2009 and would be slated for a 2010 release.
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Dee Snider indicated in a fall of 2016 interview that Strangeland: Disciple was still not being actively developed.
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Dee Snider's show returned to the air at night in August 2004 on 93.3 WMMR in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania until June 2005.
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Dee Snider fondly referred to his listeners as his "Peeps", and "DEE" euro stickers, printed by the station, could be seen on the bumpers of his fans' cars throughout Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, and Massachusetts.
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In 2001, Dee Snider was the voice of Gol Acheron, the main villain for the PlayStation 2 video game Jak and Daxter: The Precursor Legacy.
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Dee Snider played himself in the 2002 TV-movie Warning: Parental Advisory.
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Dee Snider sang the Twisted Sister hit "We're Not Gonna Take It", which was adopted by the Schwarzenegger campaign.
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Dee Snider voiced Angry Jack in the episode "Shell Shocked" for the Nickelodeon cartoon SpongeBob SquarePants.
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Dee Snider admitted to being a massive fan of the show during an hour-long 10th anniversary documentary of the show in 2009, stating that to be asked to voice a character on the show was an absolute honor.
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Dee Snider changed the lyrics of his famous "I Wanna Rock" to "Goofy Goober Rock" for The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie.
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Dee Snider has narrated and hosted many shows and specials on VH1, film trailers, behind-the-scenes segments, and DVD special features.
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In 2003, Dee Snider collaborated on a Halloween-themed project called Van Helsing's Curse.
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Dee Snider hosted VH1's 2008 "Aftermath" concert in remembrance of the victims and survivors of the 2003 Station nightclub fire.
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In 2008 Dee Snider appeared on the first episode of Kitchen Nightmares, chosen by Gordon Ramsay as part of the marketing for the re-launch of the Handlebar restaurant.
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Dee Snider has hosted Dead Art on Gallery HD, a show about cemeteries' beauty and art.
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Dee Snider has hosted House of Hair, a radio show that plays heavy metal music.
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Dee Snider has made appearances on the IFC Channel's original series Z Rock as himself playing the character of a "rock guru".
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On October 8,2010, Dee Snider started an 11-week run in the cast of Rock of Ages as Dennis, the owner of The Bourbon Room, with his official start date being October 11.
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Dee Snider starred in a commercial featuring a mock audition where he came on as himself, and after drinking a soda turns into the lead singer from Twisted Sister.
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Dee Snider agreed to come because he is personal friends with Rich and wanted to support the charity effort for St Jude Medical Center.
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Dee Snider guest starred in the video for "Immaculate Misconception" by the metalcore band Motionless in White.
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On February 19,2012, Dee Snider began appearing as one of 18 contestants vying to become Trump's next Celebrity Apprentice and was fired after the eighth task during the seventh episode.
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In 2012, Dee Snider appeared as the main character of a commercial airing for the company Unibet.
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Dee Snider asked Republican vice presidential running mate Paul Ryan's camp not to play his hit song in their campaign.
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On September 6,2012, Dee Snider performed "We're Not Gonna Take It" on America's Got Talent.
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Also in 2012, Dee Snider played Larry, the owner of a dive bar in the mockumentary Future Folk about an alien bluegrass band.
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Dee Snider provided the narration for Attack of Life: The Bang Tango Movie, which is a documentary film directed by Drew Fortier about the 1980s hard rock band Bang Tango.
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On May 27,2021, Dee Snider announced his new upcoming solo album Leave A Scar.
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In 2023, Dee Snider competed in season nine of The Masked Singer as "Doll".
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The song had become an anthem for protesting teachers in West Virginia, Kentucky, Oklahoma and elsewhere, and Dee Snider had tweeted his "support [of the] underpaid teacher's cause" after seeing a video of music teachers in Oklahoma performing the song.
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In 2021, Dee Snider objected to the use of the song by demonstrators in Fort Lauderdale protesting face masks during the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States.
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Dee Snider has been married to his wife Suzette, a costume designer, since 1981.
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Dee Snider appeared on MTV Cribs in 2005 to show his Long Island home, along with two of his four children, Shane and Cheyenne.
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Dee Snider's autobiography, Shut up and give me the mic, was published in 2012.
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Dee Snider wrote We're Not Gonna Take It, a children's book illustrated by Margaret McCartney, which was published in 2020.