1. Megan Martha White was born on December 10,1974 and is an American retired musician who achieved international fame as the drummer of the rock duo the White Stripes.
33 Facts About Meg White
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Meg White is a key artist of the 2000s garage rock revival, and her style of drumming has been called "minimalistic" and "primal" by critics.
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Meg White is noted for her elusive media image, calling herself "very shy" and reclusive.
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Meg White will be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2025 as a member of the White Stripes.
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Megan Martha White was born in Grosse Pointe Farms, Michigan, on December 10,1974 to parents Catherine and Walter Hackett White Jr.
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In high school, Meg White decided not to go to college and instead pursue a career as a chef.
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Meg White worked at Memphis Smoke, a restaurant in downtown Royal Oak where she met budding musician Jack Gillis, a fellow high school senior from a Detroit neighborhood known as Mexicantown.
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On Bastille Day in 1997, Meg White began learning to play the drums using Jack's drumkit.
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Jack recalled that playing with Meg White was "liberating and refreshing", opening up "something" within him.
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The Meg White Stripes rose to widespread recognition in 2001 with the release of their album Meg White Blood Cells.
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The Meg White Stripes released their fourth studio album, Elephant, through V2 Records and XL Recordings in 2003.
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Additionally, the track "In the Cold, Cold Night" features Meg White singing lead for the first time.
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Meg White made her film debut appearing with Jack in Jim Jarmusch's 2003 film Coffee and Cigarettes.
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Meg White appears on the cover of Whirlwind Heat's single "Pink" wearing a bunny costume; the photo was taken while the White Stripes and Whirlwind Heat toured together in Japan.
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Also in 2004, Meg White played Little Red Riding Hood in the music video for "Cha Cha Twist" by the Detroit Cobras.
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The band's fifth album Get Behind Me Satan saw the pair experimenting on their sound, with Meg White using percussion bells, maracas and tambourines.
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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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The Meg White Stripes released their sixth and final album, Icky Thump, in 2007.
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Jack White 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 with Jack in the 2009 documentary It Might Get Loud.
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The idea to do so came from Jack, when he and Meg White noticed a bag of peppermint candy in a drugstore, and Jack said "That should be painted on your bass drum because you've been drumming like a little kid".
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Meg White donated her last 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 used Remo and Ludwig drumheads, various percussion instruments and Vater drumsticks.
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Meg White is a fan of the traditional country artists Hank Williams and Loretta Lynn.
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In "Seven Nation Army", Meg White plays a driving quarter note groove meant to mimic a heartbeat and punctuate the guitar.
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In "Fell in Love With a Girl", Meg White plays a "hyper, stuttering rock beat" with a skipped snare drum and prominent crash cymbals.
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Meg White is considered a key figure in the garage rock revival of the 2000s, and has since been praised for her "primal" style.
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Meg White is one of the most discussed drummers in rock music, and her style continues to be evaluated after her retirement.
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Meg White loves peppermint, and it inspired many of the White Stripes' artistic schemes.
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Meg White suffers from acute anxiety, and has described herself as "very shy".
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Meg White told Rolling Stone in 2005 that "the more you talk, the fewer people listen".
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Meg White received several accolades with the band, which includes winning one Brit Award from six nominations and winning six Grammy Awards from eleven nominations; as a member of the White Stripes, she was nominated for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2023 and will be inducted in 2025.