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Jerry Cantrell Biography

Jerry Cantrell is one of the most popular and richest Guitarist who was born on March 18, 1966 in Tacoma, Washington, United States. Musician and guitarist in the grunge and rock group Alice in Chains who also was pursuing an independent career.

The song by Cantrell “Rooster” has been used in numerous television shows as well as on the Judd Apatow film This is 40.

Cantrell was born in Tacoma, Washington, on March 18, 1966, to Gloria Jean Krumpos and Jerry Fulton Cantrell. He grew up in Spanaway, and is the oldest of three children. His father is an Army veteran, and his mother was an amateur organist and melodica player who worked as an administrative assistant for the Clover Park School District in Pierce County, Washington. His maternal grandmother was from Norway, and his maternal grandfather was from Czech Republic.

Jerry Fulton Cantrell Jr. (born March 18, 1966) is an American musician, singer-songwriter and guitarist best known as the founder, lead guitarist, co-lead vocalist and main songwriter of the rock band Alice in Chains. The band rose to international fame in the early 1990s during Seattle’s grunge movement, and is known for its distinctive vocal style and the harmonized vocals between Cantrell and Layne Staley (and later Cantrell and William DuVall). Cantrell started to sing lead vocals on Alice in Chains’ 1992 EP Sap. After Staley’s death in 2002, Cantrell took the role of Alice in Chains’ lead singer on most of the songs from the band’s post-Staley albums, Black Gives Way to Blue (2009), The Devil Put Dinosaurs Here (2013) and Rainier Fog (2018), with DuVall harmonizing with him in the new songs and singing Staley’s vocals in the old songs in live concerts.

His father is an Vietnam veteran. Jerry sang his song “Rooster” to him.

Ethnicity, religion & political views

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Cantrell has been most famously seen playing a G&L Guitars’ Rampage model. The two models most closely identified with Cantrell are instruments manufactured in the 1980s. They feature a maple body, maple neck and ebony fingerboard. The bridge is a Kahler Tremolo as opposed to a Floyd Rose tremolo which was commonly seen on instruments made throughout the 1980s and 90s. The guitars feature a single-bridge humbucker wired to a volume control.

Jerry Cantrell Net Worth

Jerry Cantrell is one of the richest Guitarist from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Jerry Cantrell's net worth $35 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

He grew up with country music, and thinks of himself as a half-redneck. His first group were Diamond Lie.

He was head of the school’s award-winning choir, and also performed the national anthem at games.

Apart from his signature G&L Guitars, Cantrell has also been seen playing a Telecaster, a Fender Standard Stratocaster Brown Sunburst, a Gibson Les Paul most notably an Ivory White Les Paul with torch burn marks that Cantrell made all over the guitar, which is the guitar that Cantrell has used on all of the Alice in Chains albums along with the original Blue Dress G&L. Also a Gibson Custom Shop Jerry Cantrell SG, a 1952 Goldtop Les Paul, an Ernie Ball Music Man EVH that was a gift from Eddie Van Halen in the 1990s, but has been stolen from Cantrell, a dark blue Mosrite Venture, a Dean Michael Schenker USA V, and Dean Soltero guitars.

Cantrell moved back with his mother to Spanaway where he attended junior high. His first job was delivering newspapers. Cantrell attended high school at Spanaway Lake High School, and, before owning his first guitar, he was a member of the high school choir which attended many state competitions. In his senior year, Cantrell became choir president, and the quartet sang the national anthem at basketball games and won competitions with the highest marks achievable. Cantrell has cited his interest in dark musical tones as dating back to this period: “In choir we performed a cappella Gregorian chants from the 14th and 15th centuries. It was scary church music.” His choir teacher and drama teacher were, early on, his two greatest motivators toward a career in music. When Alice in Chains’ first album went gold, Cantrell sent both teachers a gold record. He graduated from high school in 1984.

In 1985 or 1986, Cantrell moved back to Tacoma and began a band called Diamond Lie, which included singer Scott Damon, drummer Bobby Nesbitt and bassist Matt Muasau. The band started playing concerts in Tacoma and Seattle with the goal of getting a record deal. They recorded a four-song demo at London Bridge Studio.

Height, Weight & Body Measurements

Jerry Cantrell height 6 ft 2 in Jerry weight Not Known & body measurements will update soon.

The first album that Cantrell owned was Elton John Greatest Hits (1974), which was a gift he received from his father when he was 10 years old. He noted in an interview that he was “raised on country music” as a youth and that he admires the emotion conveyed in the genre. He also considers himself “half Yankee and half redneck”. However, hard rock music caught Cantrell’s interest predominantly. He would later cite guitarists such as Jimi Hendrix, Ace Frehley, Tony Iommi, Angus Young, Jimmy Page, Glenn Tipton, K.K. Downing, David Gilmour, Nancy Wilson, and Eddie Van Halen as major influences, as well as Elton John and bands Fleetwood Mac, Heart and Rush as his early songwriting idols. Cantrell also cited Soundgarden as a big influence on him.

His maternal grandmother, Dorothy Krumpos, died of cancer in October 1986, and his mother Gloria died of pancreatic cancer at age 43 in April 1987, when Cantrell was 21 years old. Friends recalled that Cantrell fell into depression and became a completely different person after losing both his mother and grandmother within a short span of time.

Who is Jerry Cantrell Dating?

According to our records, Jerry Cantrell is possibily single & has not been previously engaged. As of December 1, 2023, Jerry Cantrell’s is not dating anyone.

In 1985, Cantrell was going to winter semester of college, but he decided to quit it and moved to Dallas, Texas to join a band with a couple of friends. Cantrell worked doing asbestos abatement around the Dallas and Houston area. He also worked at the music store Arnold and Morgan Music Company. While working at the store, Cantrell bought what he described as his first “real guitar”, a 1984 G&L Rampage. During that time, he had a band with Vinnie Chas (from Pretty Boy Floyd), called Sinister. Later they formed another band called Raze.

Facts & Trivia

Jerry Ranked on the list of most popular Guitarist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Jerry Cantrell celebrates birthday on March 18 of every year.

Cantrell met Layne Staley, then Alice N’ Chains’ lead singer, at a party in Seattle around August 1987. He was homeless after being kicked out of his family’s house, so Staley invited Cantrell to live with him at the 24-hour rehearsal studio “The Music Bank”. Shortly after Cantrell moved in with Staley at the Music Bank, Alice ‘N Chains broke up.

Did Jerry Cantrell write a song about Layne Staley?

“Black Gives Way to Blue” is a song by American rock band Alice in Chains, and the last track on their 2009 studio album of the same name. Written and sung by guitarist/vocalist Jerry Cantrell, it features Elton John on piano. The song is a tribute to the band’s late lead singer, Layne Staley, who died in 2002.

Who is Jerry Cantrell's dad?

Jerry Cantrell Sr.

How did Layne Staley and Jerry Cantrell meet?

“I met Layne at a house party I think in West Seattle, and I’d never met him before but I’d seen his band and I remember the first time I heard him sing, I was like, ‘Man that guy’s cool. That guy’s got a great voice. I would love to be in a band with that guy. ‘

What guitar does Jerry Cantrell?

Jerry Cantrell is known for playing G&L Rampage guitars as well as becoming a devoted player of Gibson Les Paul Custom guitars. His most notorious G&L Rampage guitar is known as “Blue Dress” which got its nickname from its sticker graphic of a pin-up girl wearing a blue dress.

Did Layne Staley sing on Black Gives Way to Blue?

Cantrell said about singing lead vocals in the album: I had to step up quite a bit more than I ever had. He [Layne Staley] always gave me a lot of confidence to do that, to sing more lead. And you can hear that as the albums progress, I kind of start growing into that role.

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