1. Pepper J Keenan was born on May 8,1967 and is an American guitarist and vocalist, best known for his work with heavy metal bands Corrosion of Conformity and Down.
13 Facts About Pepper Keenan
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Pepper Keenan joined Corrosion of Conformity in 1989, but did not become the lead singer until the recording of Deliverance in 1994.
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In 1991, Keenan formed Down with Phil Anselmo of Pantera, Jimmy Bower of Eyehategod, and Kirk Windstein and Todd Strange of Crowbar.
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Pepper Keenan was born in Oxford, Mississippi, but now lives in New Orleans, Louisiana, where he owns a bar named "Le Bon Temps Roule".
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Pepper Keenan's father, a former musician, was a local real estate appraiser in New Orleans.
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The band later reunited and recorded two albums without Pepper Keenan he rejoined the group in 2015 and they performed their first show with the reunited Deliverance-era lineup of Pepper Keenan, Woody Weatherman, Mike Dean, and Reed Mullin in March 2015 in Manchester, England.
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Pepper Keenan was a founding member of Down in 1991 along with Pantera's Phil Anselmo, Eyehategod's Jimmy Bower, and Crowbar's Kirk Windstein and Todd Strange.
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Pepper Keenan plays guitar and sings a part of the second verse on Metallica's cover of the Lynyrd Skynyrd song "Tuesday's Gone".
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Pepper Keenan is good friends with lead singer and guitarist James Hetfield.
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Pepper Keenan's audition is shown in the Metallica documentary Metallica: Some Kind of Monster.
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Pepper Keenan became the father of a daughter named Flannery Rose Pepper Keenan with his longtime girlfriend Anna Hrnjak on January 5,2010.
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Originally disturbed by bandmate Phil Anselmo's behavior at the 2016 Dimebash, Pepper Keenan later accepted his apology in a February 4,2016 Facebook post.
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Pepper Keenan was featured with his 1955 Chevy "Gasser" in a television episode of Big Easy Motors.