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Jani Lane (born John Kennedy Oswald; February 1, 1964 – August 11, 2011) was an American singer and the lead vocalist, frontman, lyricist and main songwriter for the
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band Warrant. From
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, the band experienced success from 1989 to 1996 with five albums reaching international sales of over 10 million. Lane left Warrant in 2004 and again in 2008 after a brief reunion. Lane also released a solo album, '' Back Down to One,'' in 2003, and the album '' Love the Sin, Hate the Sinner'' with a new group, Saints of the Underground, in 2008. Lane contributed lead vocals and songwriting to various projects throughout his career.


Childhood and youth

Lane was born John Kennedy Oswald (later changed to John Patrick Oswald), on February 1, 1964, in
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to Robert and Eileen Oswald. He was raised in Brimfield with four older siblings: sisters Marcine Williams, Michelle Robinson and Victoria Ley, plus older brother Eric, already an accomplished guitarist. With sisters Micki and Vicky and brother Eric harmonizing and playing guitar, Lane taught himself to play drums, guitar and piano by ear by age five. He grew up listening to
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rock station
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(100.7  FM "The Buzzard") and was introduced to a variety of music by his older siblings. With connections from his brother Eric around the music scene (and with his parents' help), Lane made a name for himself at a very young age. He played drums under the pseudonym "Mitch Dynamite" in clubs by age 11 especially with a local band "Pokerface." By that time, his siblings had left for college or marriage, Lane's Father " Ozzie" continued to network with local bands and club owners to help promote Jani's musical talent in pursuit of his dream. Lane graduated from
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, in Mogadore, Ohio, a nearby city to Brimfield in 1982. Lane is credited as the vocalist/drummer on Warrant's ''Latest and Greatest'' CD. Throughout his career, Lane would sometimes play drums/acoustic guitar and piano with his band and played the drums in various formats and gigs with other musicians.


Career


Early years

After high school, Lane joined the band Cyren, featuring vocalist Skip Hammonds, guitarist John Weakland, bassist Don Hoover (and later Rusty Fohner) with Lane on drums and vocals. Many of Cyren's shows opened for a popular local band called Risqué. When Risqué's bassist, Al Collins, noticed Lane's vocal talents, he convinced Lane to form a new band they eventually called Dorian Gray. The new band also included Steven Chamberlin on drums and Dave Chamberlin on lead guitar. Dorian Gray was designed to have Lane as the lead vocalist and to perform original material, but Lane wasn't ready to be the lead singer and quickly returned to the drum kit. Billy Denmead was hired as lead vocalist and rhythm guitarist. After only a few shows, Collins left the band, vowing to put a band together when Lane was ready to be a lead vocalist. Lane moved to Florida in 1983 with Dorian Gray. Eventually deciding to assume a lead vocalist role, he formed
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with Collins and Chamberlin, adopting the stage name "Jani Lane" (Chamberlin would also soon rechristen himself
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). He took the name "Jani" from his German grandparents, who spelled his name "Jani" and pronounced it "Yay-nee." Lane began vocal training with vocal coach/trainer Ron Feldmann, who introduced him to Creative Engineering, Inc. in Orlando. Lane worked there as a programmer of the animatronic character Dook LaRue, the drummer for
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. His vocal debut was at The Station in
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. Lane, Collins, and Chamberlin recorded the first Plain Jane four-track demos at their rented house in Winter Park, Florida. Although reluctant to leave Florida, they rented a trailer in the spring of 1984 and moved to California with hopes of landing a record deal. They were broke by the time they landed at the Hollywood Bowl Motel and resorted to making sandwiches with mustard packets while taking turns calling their parents for cash. Struggling to make ends meet as a musician, Lane resorted to working in a
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video warehouse. The band, along with a new road crew and a few girlfriends, pooled their wages and lived in a two-bedroom condominium rented by new Plain Jane guitarist Paul Noble. At one time, there were 13 people living in the crowded space. By 1985, Plain Jane had become a regular feature on the Los Angeles club circuit and opened many shows for a band called Warrant. Plain Jane's bassist and guitarist both left the band on the same day Warrant's singer and drummer quit.
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, who had founded Warrant in July 1984, was impressed by Plain Jane's songwriting and vocal performance and invited Lane and Sweet to jam with his band at Hollywood's db Sound in September 1986.


Warrant

After generating notoriety on the club circuit, Warrant began to attract the attention of record labels. Following an abortive deal with A&M Records over a contribution to the soundtrack for the motion picture ''
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,'' the band signed with Columbia Records. The Columbia deal came via the partnering of Warrant and manager Tom Hulett, known for working with
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and others. Hulett became Lane's mentor and friend until Hulett's death from cancer in 1993. As lead vocalist with Warrant, Lane wrote all of the material for the band's 1989 debut double platinum album, ''
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'', including four Top 40 hit singles: " Down Boys", "
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", " Big Talk" and the No. 2 ''Billboard'' Hot 100 hit " Heaven." The album peaked at no. 10 on
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. Lane also wrote four Top 40 hit singles (" Cherry Pie," "
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" and "
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") for the second album, the 1990 double platinum '' Cherry Pie,'' which peaked at no. 7 on the Billboard 200. Lane also co-wrote and performed with Warrant the song "The Power" in the 1992 movie '' Gladiator''. In 1992, Warrant released '' Dog Eat Dog,'' their gold third album, which peaked at no. 25 on the Billboard 200. Lane left Warrant in March 1993 to pursue a solo career. He returned six months later, helping the band secure a new record with Tom Lipsky of
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. Warrant recorded ''
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'' in 1995, '' Belly to Belly'' in 1996, '' Greatest & Latest'' in 1999 and a cover album, '' Under the Influence,'' in 2001. Due to personal and business disagreements, Lane left Warrant again in 2004. In January 2008, the band's agent, The
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, issued a new photograph of the band with Lane prominently featured, confirming his return to the band. It was the first time that all original members had been in the band since 1993. The band's first show with all original members was in May 2008 in Nashville, Tennessee. Warrant performed a series of shows during the summer of 2008, but by September, the band and Lane agreed to move forward separately due to "too much water under the bridge." Warrant and Lane both continued to perform Lane's compositions live and Lane continued to write for himself and other artists.


Solo career

Lane became involved in acting in the early 1990s. He made a brief appearance in ''
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'' and appeared in '' High Strung'' in 1991. In 1993, Lane started working on his first solo project. Titled "Jabberwocky," the album represented a significant musical departure from previous work. Between 1997 and 2000, demos of Lane's solo material began surfacing on the Internet, with some bids on
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reaching an estimated $100 per copy. In 2002, Lane decided to postpone the "Jabberwocky" project and released a new project as his debut solo album. The "Jabberwocky" project remained unreleased. Lane's official debut solo album, '' Back Down to One'', was released on June 17, 2003, through ''Z Records'' and in the U.S. in 2006 on Immortal/Sidewinder Records. It carried a "power pop" sound more closely aligned with the sound of Warrant than "Jabberwocky." Shortly after the album's release, Lane was admitted to a rehabilitation center for alcohol and drug-related exhaustion. In August 2004, Lane withdrew from the ''Bad Boys of Metal'' tour after only eight shows. In the fall of 2004, Lane contributed lead vocals for the first ever theme song to a novel, Billy McCarthy's "The Devil of Shakespeare," along with James Young from Styx, Ron Flynt of 20/20 and Chip Z'Nuff of Enuff Z'Nuff. Lane contributed vocals on the track "Bastille Day" and "2112 Overture/Temples of Syrinx" for the Magna Carta 2005 Rush tribute album "Subdivisions." Lane had success with the " VH1 Classic Metal Mania: Stripped" discs, where the acoustic version of "I Saw Red" was included on disc 1, a new acoustic swinging version of "Cherry Pie" featured on disc 2, and a new acoustic version of "Heaven" featured on disc 3. In 2005, Lane became a fan favorite on the popular VH1 series '' Celebrity Fit Club 2''. His problems with alcohol were highlighted and many viewers supported his efforts at recovery. With the reissue and U.S. release of "Back Down to One" in 2006, Lane attempted to restart his version of Warrant. Although "Back Down to One" was credited as a solo release, Lane assembled a new touring band called "Jani Lane's Warrant." The band's first shows in Michigan were stopped by legal action from former bandmates objecting to his use of the Warrant logo on his posters. Lane subsequently continued touring without the Warrant name and logo. Lane lent his vocals to numerous tribute CDs during the 2000s. In 2007, he released a solo cover album titled "Photograph," featuring a collection of his tribute contributions.
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and Lane wrote a song for
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titled "The One That Got Away." It was recorded by Cooper on his 2008 record '' Along Came a Spider''. Lane also finished work on a side project, Saints of the Underground, which included Kelli and Bobby Blotzer and Robbie Crane, (both from
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). Their album, '' Love the Sin, Hate the Sinner,'' was released on April 22, 2008, by Warrior Records, and was mixed by producer/
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, who'd worked with
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and
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. The album featured additional bass work by Chuck Wright (
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,
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). The band was originally called "Angel City Outlaws" when they posted their first two promo singles, "Bruised" and "Exit." In summer 2010, Lane toured with Great White, filling in for singer Jack Russell, who was recuperating from surgery after suffering internal complications.


Personal life

During the shooting of Warrant's "Cherry Pie" video, Lane met model
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, who starred in the video, and they married in July 1991. They had a daughter, Taylar, in 1992 and divorced in 1993. Their relationship was recounted in Brown's 2013 autobiography, ''Dirty Rocker Boys'', co-written with Caroline Ryder. In 1996, Lane married actress Rowanne Brewer, a former
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. They had a daughter, Madison, in 1997 and divorced in 2005.


Death

On August 11, 2011, the Los Angeles Police Department and local news stations announced that Lane was found dead of acute alcohol poisoning at a
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hotel in
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at the age of 47. Lane was pronounced dead by fire department personnel who responded to a call shortly before 5:30 p.m. A public memorial concert with performances by Great White,
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and
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was held on August 29 at the Key Club in Hollywood. A biopic called Cherry Pie Guy is being made about Lane's life. Radio personality/comedian Jeff Dandurand will portray Jani and also direct the film.


Discography


Studio albums

*'' Back Down to One'' (2002) *''Photograph'' (2007) *''Catch a Falling Star'' (2015)


with Warrant

*''
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'' (1989) *'' Cherry Pie'' (1990) *'' Dog Eat Dog'' (1992) *''
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'' (1995) *'' Belly to Belly'' (1996) *'' Greatest & Latest'' (1999) *'' Under the Influence'' (2001)


with Saints of the Underground

*'' Love the Sin, Hate the Sinner'' (2008)


Guest appearances

*1991 '' Voices That Care'' (Various) U.S. #11, U.S. AC #6 CAN #61 *1998 ''Forever Mod: Portrait of a Storyteller – Tribute to Rod Stewart'': "I Was Only Joking" *1999 ''Not The Same Old Song And Dance – A Tribute to Aerosmith'': "No Surprise" *2000 ''Tribute to
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2000'': "Panama" *2000 ''Cheap Dream:
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Tribute'': "I Want You to Want Me" (
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Remix) *2000 ''Leppardmania- A tribute to
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'': " Photograph" *2000 ''Queen 4 A Day Shameless 2000'': "Backing Vocals on Far Away, Lonely Night in Paradise" *2003 We Wish You A Hairy Christmas "Father Christmas"
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*2004 '' VH1 Classic Metal Mania: Stripped'': "I Saw Red (Acoustic)" *2005 ''VH1 Classic Metal Mania Stripped 2: Anthems'' – "Cherry Pie (Acoustic)" *2005 ''Hell Bent Forever – A tribute to Judas Priest'': "Electric Eye" *2005 ''Subdivisions: A Tribute to Rush'': "2112 Overture/Temples of Syrinx", "Bastille Day" *2006 ''A Tribute to Bon Jovi'': "Lay Your Hands on Me" *2007 "Addiction" Liberty N' Justice *2007 ''VH1 Classic Metal Mania Stripped 3:'' "Heaven (Acoustic)" *2007 ''Monster Ballads Xmas'' : "
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" *2007 ''Famous 4 Madness Shameless 2007'': "Backing Vocals on Better Off Without you, Magical Misery, Dirty Shirt, She's Watching You" *2008 ''
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'' Along Came a Spider (songwriting) *2008 ''Led Box – The Ultimate
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Tribute'': " The Ocean" *2010 ''Siam Shade Tribute'': " 1/3 no Junjou na Kanjou" *2011 '' Sin-Atra: A Metal Tribute To Frank Sinatra'': "That's Life" *2011 "Sin" Liberty N' Justice *2012 ''Dial S for Sex Shameless 2012'': Backing Vocals on "Far Away" *2021 ''Jesse Harte – (of SouthGang) Byte The Bullet (Pre-Southgang) + Demos + Live'': Backing Vocals on "Cross of Mine"


Soundtrack appearances

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Music videos

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References


External links

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