Megan Martha White was born on December 10,1974 and is an American former musician and singer, best known as the drummer of the duo The White Stripes.
23 Facts About Meg White
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Meg White is credited as one of the key artists in the garage rock revival of the 2000s, and has won various awards as a part of the White Stripes, including six Grammy Awards.
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Meg White has not been active in the music industry since.
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Meg White calls herself "very shy" and keeps a low public profile.
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Megan Martha White was born in the affluent Detroit suburb of Grosse Pointe Farms, Michigan, on December 10,1974, the daughter of Catherine and Walter Hackett White Jr.
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Meg White attended Grosse Pointe North High School and, according to one classmate, was "always the quiet, obviously artistic type, and she just kept very much to herself".
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Meg White began to work at Memphis Smoke, a restaurant in downtown Royal Oak, where she first met budding musician Jack Gillis, a fellow high school senior from a Detroit neighborhood known as Mexicantown, and they frequented the coffee shops, local music venues, and record stores of the area.
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Jack and Meg presented themselves as siblings to an unknowing public, and kept to a chromatic theme, dressed only in red, white, and black.
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The Meg White Stripes rose to widespread recognition in 2001 with the release of their album Meg White Blood Cells, which brought them to the forefront of the garage rock revival and made them one of the most acclaimed bands the following year.
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Meg White sang the Christmas song "Silent Night" on the single Candy Cane Children.
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Meg White has appeared on the cover of Whirlwind Heat's single "Pink", in a Detroit Cobras music video "Cha Cha Twist" as Little Red Riding Hood, and appeared with Jack Meg White in a segment of Jim Jarmusch's 2003 film Coffee and Cigarettes.
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Meg White has done some modeling for Marc Jacobs' 2006 Spring line.
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Meg White was chosen by Bob Odenkirk to compose a drum theme for Dax Shepard's character in the 2006 film Let's Go to Prison; against Odenkirk's wishes however, the studio removed it from the film.
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Jack worked with other artists in the meantime, but Meg White remained largely out of the public eye, though in June 2008, she appeared briefly onstage during an encore set of a Detroit show with one of Jack's bands, the Raconteurs.
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Meg White had come from a dead-halt for a year and went right back into that madness.
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Meg White appeared alongside Jack in the 2009 documentary film It Might Get Loud.
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Meg White suffers from acute anxiety, and she has described herself as "very shy".
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Meg White told Rolling Stone in 2005 that "the more you talk, the less people listen".
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Meg White began with a red Ludwig Classic Maple kit that had a red and white peppermint swirl on the resonant heads of the toms and bass drum.
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Meg White used Remo and Ludwig drumheads, various percussion instruments and Vater drumsticks.
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Meg White later donated her Ludwig kit to the 2009 Jim Shaw Rock 'N' Roll Benefit, an auction to raise money for the Detroit musician who was suffering from cancer.
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Meg White is considered a key figure in the garage rock revival of the 2000s, and she has earned several positive reviews from critics and fans for her simplistic and "primal" drumming style.
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Meg White has received several accolades with the Meg White Stripes, which includes winning one Brit Award from six nominations and winning six Grammy Awards from eleven nominations.