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Bret Michaels

Bret Michael Sychak, (born March 15, 1963 in Butler, Pennsylvania) is best known as the lead vocalist of the glam metal band Poison and starring in the reality show Rock of Love with Bret Michaels on VH1.

Music career

Michaels formed the band Paris in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania in 1984. The original lineup for Paris was Leighton "Tugger" Zema on lead vocals, Bret Michaels on guitar, Brian Bircher on drums, Jonathan Combs on synthesizer/gong, and Patrick Bircher on bass. All original members, except Michaels, were from Steelton, PA, but they were all replaced by the members of what later became Poison. The band moved to Los Angeles in 1984 to begin touring the clubs there. Poison became one of the biggest heavy metal/Pop metal bands in the world and also recording several hit albums such as the 8 million seller Open up and say ...Ahh!.

Bret Michaels recorded his first solo album in 1998 'A Letter From Death Row' a soundtrack to the movie he directed, wrote and starred in.

In 2003 Michaels released the solo album Songs Of Life.

Michaels also served as a judge during the 2005 season of reality television singing competition Nashville Star, and released a country rock album in the same year called Freedom Of Sound.[1]

The song "Go That Far" appears in the video game Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock.[2] Michaels also makes an appearance as the lead singer in the game for it, as well as the Poison song "Talk Dirty to Me", re-recording the vocals for the in-game cover of the latter. Michaels' song Every Rose Has Its Thorn also appears in the Sony Playstation game "Sing-Star".

Other ventures

Michaels and actor Charlie Sheen established a film production company, Sheen/Michaels Entertainment, which produced the movie A Letter From Death Row (1998) which Michaels wrote, directed and starred in, as well as releasing a soundtrack album. They also produced No Code Of Conduct in the same year. Their company also produced the feature film Free Money, starring Marlon Brando and Mira Sorvino.

Michaels appeared in an episode of the CBS sitcom Yes, Dear.[1][3]

The cable-TV network VH1 announced on February 14, 2007 that Michaels would star as the bachelor in the reality television dating-competition series Rock of Love With Bret Michaels.[4][5] Jes was the winner of the series; She also had a boyfriend outside the show and claimed that the casting directors chose her off the street. However, she announced during the reunion show that she and Michaels were not right for each other and he should have chosen the runner up, Heather.

Michaels went on to star in the second season of Rock of Love, which premiered on January 13, 2008. On April 13, 2008, Michaels selected his "Rock of Love" to be Ambre Lake.

On May 1, 2008, Michaels appeared on a special celebrity edition of Don't Forget the Lyrics!, where he raised $200,000 to donate to charity.[6]

Personal life

Michaels has suffered from Type 1 diabetes since the age of six (as Michaels later attested in the Behind the Music special, backstage photos of the singer injecting insulin led many to think that he was a heroin addict). As a child, his family relocated to Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania, where he attended Mechanicsburg High School.

Bret Michaels was associated with singer Susie Hatton during the early 1990s. He has two daughters with Kristi Lynn Gibson. Raine Elizabeth Sychak was born on May 20, 2000, and Jorja Bleu Sychak was born May 5, 2005.[1] As of 2007, Michaels and Gibson are separated and share custody of their children. There are rumors that they still have a live in arrangement.[7]

Michaels had a short but notorious relationship with Pamela Anderson. An explicit sex tape the couple made appeared on the Internet [8] and it was released as a DVD on September 7, 2005 by Metro Studios. Michaels later stopped the sexually explicit tape from continued distribution although it is still widely available on the internet. Word of another sex tape[9], this time with unnamed girls from Rock of Love surfaced in early 2008. Michaels is a fan of the Pittsburgh Steelers of the National Football League.[10] He has a personalized guitar bearing the team's logo, and played the national anthem at Three Rivers Stadium.[11] His favorite player was Jack Lambert, and Michaels has been a member of fan club "Lambert's Lunatics."[12]

Discography

Solo albums

Singles

Poison

Filmography

Features:

  • Burke's Law - 1 episode (1994)
  • In God's Hands (1994)
  • A Letter From Death Row (1998)[13]
  • The World's Greatest Magic 5 (1998)
  • No Code of Conduct (1998)[14]
  • Martial Law - 1 Episode (1999)
  • Poison: VH1 Behind the Music (1999)
  • Yes, Dear - TV Series (2003)
  • Nashville Star - TV Series Season 3 (2005)
  • Rock of Love with Bret Michaels - TV Series Season one (2007)
  • Poison: Live, Raw and Uncut (2007)
  • Rock of Love 2 - TV Series Season two (2008)[15]

References

  1. ^ a b c Bret Michaels at IMDb
  2. ^ http://www.guitarherogame.com/gh3/ Guitar Hero Game
  3. ^ Yes, Dear episode "Greg's Big Day" at IMDb
  4. ^ StarPulse.com News
  5. ^ RealityBlurred.com
  6. ^ TheGauntlet.com News
  7. ^ [1]
  8. ^ "Celebrity sex tapes". WCBS-TV. CBS Broadcasting, Inc.
  9. ^ TheGauntlet.com News
  10. ^ Bretmichaels.com "It was also said that Bret could be considered the front man for the Steelers for his devotion and love for the team."
  11. ^ Bretmichaels.com "Bret who hails from Pittsburgh was asked to sing the national anthem at one of the last Steelers games held at Pittsburgh's Three Rivers Stadium before it was demolished."
  12. ^ Diabetes Health "When Bret was a kid, his most influential role model was a Pittsburgh Steelers linebacker by the name of Jack Lambert. Says Bret, "He was one of these people that just had this ferocious go-for-it attitude. And that's the attitude that helped to develop my thinking. When they would be losing games, you could just see him come on the field and motivate that team to win. Finding a way. You're not going to win every game, you're not going to have a platinum record every time you put a song out, but it's the going for it that is really the pot of gold. As I've gone along, as I've experienced life, I've learned that it's the going after it that's the really awesome thing. He starred in Don't Forget the Lyrics on May 1, 2008"
  13. ^ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119521/ IMBD Film Reference
  14. ^ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0131502/ IMBD Film Reference
  15. ^ http://blog.vh1.com/2007-10-09/rock-of-love-2-rocker/ Rock Of Love 2
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