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Sebastian Philip Bierk (born April 3, 1968), known professionally as Sebastian Bach, is a Canadian-American singer who achieved mainstream success as the frontman of the hard rock band
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from 1987 to 1996. He has acted on
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and has made appearances in film and television such as ''
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'', ''
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'' and ''
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''. He continues his music career as a solo artist.


Early years

Bach was born in
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, the son of artist
David Bierk David Charles Bierk (June 9, 1944 – August 28, 2002) was an American-Canadian realism (arts), realist painter known for working in the postmodern genre. Early life Born in Appleton, Minnesota, to Glennon Bierk and Doris Ruth Steenson, Bier ...
and was raised in
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after the family moved there in the early 1970s for his father's teaching job. He is one of eight children. His brother
Zac Bierk Zachary Bierk (born September 17, 1976) is a Canadian former professional ice hockey player. He played in 47 NHL games with the Tampa Bay Lightning, Minnesota Wild, and Phoenix Coyotes between 1997 and 2004. He most recently was the goaltending ...
is a former professional ice hockey player. His father,
David Bierk David Charles Bierk (June 9, 1944 – August 28, 2002) was an American-Canadian realism (arts), realist painter known for working in the postmodern genre. Early life Born in Appleton, Minnesota, to Glennon Bierk and Doris Ruth Steenson, Bier ...
(d. 2002), was a noted painter. He painted the cover of Skid Row's album ''
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'' and inside cover art of ''
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'', as well as the album cover of Bach's solo effort ''
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'' and inside art for its follow-up, '' Give 'Em Hell''. Bach joined a church choir when he was eight years old, and found much joy in singing "
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" with them. He knew while singing the hymn that he would sing for the rest of his life. He attended
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in Lakefield, Ontario.


Career


Kid Wikkid (1983–1985)

The members of Kid Wikkid were based in Peterborough, Ontario. Upon hearing of the band and unaware of their ages, 14-year-old Bach auditioned for the group, and was hired by guitar player and band leader Jason Delorme. Kid Wikkid moved back to
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, and Bach's dad eventually allowed Bach to move in with an aunt.


Skid Row (1987–1996)

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initially formed in the mid-1980s with lead vocalist
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fronting the group, and they began playing at various clubs around the New Jersey area. Fallon left the band in 1987, leaving Skid Row in search of a lead vocalist. Bach was spotted singing at rock photographer
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's wedding by
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's parents, who subsequently approached him and suggested he get in touch with their son's friend,
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, who was looking for a lead vocalist for his band. Bach was wary of joining another US-based band after briefly being a member of Detroit's Madam X. Upon hearing Skid Row's demo tapes, however, Bach flew to New Jersey to audition and became the up-and-coming band's lead vocalist in early 1987. Skid Row achieved commercial success in the late 1980s and early 1990s, with its first two albums ''
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'' (1989) and ''
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'' (1991) certified multi-platinum, the latter of which reached number one on the ''Billboard'' 200. The band's third album ''
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'' (1995) was also critically acclaimed. Bach has received criticism for a photo, taken in 1989, in which he is wearing a T-shirt reading "
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Kills Fags Dead", a play on the tagline at the time for the insecticide
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, "Raid Kills Bugs Dead". In a 2003 interview, he stated about the controversy, "That was really stupid and wrong for me to wear that for one-half hour in my life. What nobody brings up is in 2000, when I was in ' Jekyll & Hyde,' and at an auction for
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, I donated $12,000 of my own money to fight AIDS." Following disagreements over musical material and infuriating Bolan, Bach was fired from the band in 1996. However, rumors circulated that he had left the band due to his other bandmates believing they should not play as an opening act for Kiss. Bandmate
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also had a side project, a punk band, Prunella Scales, who were playing at the same time as the planned Kiss show. The rift between Bach and the other band members subsequently led to his leaving Skid Row. Four years later, Skid Row was one of the opening acts for the 2000 Kiss Farewell Tour, without Bach.


Broadway and other projects (1996–2006)

In 1993, Bach shortly toured with Triumph after the release of their album ''
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'', providing lead vocals up until the band broke up later the same year. In 1996, Bach joined The Last Hard Men, an
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supergroup formed by
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lead guitarist
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, which also included
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guitarist Jimmy Flemion and
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drummer
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. The group recorded a full-length self-titled album for
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, who then opted not to release it. In 1998 it was released on Kelley Deal's label, Nice Records, with no fanfare and a very limited pressing of 1,000 CDs. The band also recorded a cover of the
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song " School's Out" for the soundtrack album of the 1996 film '' Scream''. In 1999, Bach released his debut solo album '' Bring 'Em Bach Alive!'', his first release after his departure from Skid Row. Mainly a live album of Bach's Skid Row songs, it also presented five new studio recordings, including the single "Superjerk, Superstar, Supertears". In 2000, Bach began performing in
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productions. He made his Broadway debut with the title role(s) in '' Jekyll & Hyde'' in April 2000. He also appeared as Riff Raff in ''
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'' in 2001. On November 28, 2001 Bach appeared at
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, a benefit concert held in response to
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. In early 2002, he became the host of ''VH1's Forever Wild''. In October of that year, Bach was signed to perform in the national touring production of ''
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'', playing the title role alongside ''JCS'' veteran Carl Anderson. A
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video of live performances called '' Forever Wild'' was released in June 2004. That same year, he reprised the title role(s) in another showing of ''Jekyll & Hyde''. In 2003, Bach tried out for
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before the band found
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, but was turned down because, according to Slash, "We sounded like Skid Roses!" From 2003 to 2007, Bach had a recurring role on the WB
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show ''
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'' as "Gil", the lead guitarist in Lane Kim's band, ''Hep Alien''. Members of Bach Tight Five (a project initiated by Bach in 2004, but dissolved shortly thereafter) lived with Bach and his family as documented on
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's ''I Married ...Sebastian Bach'', one of the "I Married ..." series. In 2005, Bach collaborated with Henning Pauly to be the singer on the Frameshift album called ''An Absence of Empathy'', released in April 2005. He was recommended to Henning by
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's
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. On May 12 and 14, 2006, at the Guns N' Roses' warmup show at the
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in New York City, Bach joined
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on stage for the song "
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". He joined Rose and the rest for a third time the following night (May 15) to sing "My Michelle" once again. He also joined them for their Pre-Download Festival show in the Apollo Hammersmith, London, singing My Michelle. Rose introduced Bach by saying that the two had rekindled their friendship in the previous week after 13 years of not speaking. On June 4, 9 & 11 he again joined Rose on stage at the 2006 Gods of Metal Festival (
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), Download Festival in RDS
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and in Donington, respectively. On September 23, 2006, he joined Axl on stage once again at
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's Inland Invasion festival in California for a rendition of "My Michelle".


Reality TV and ''Angel Down'' (2006–2010)

Bach starred in the 2006
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'' Supergroup'', in which he, along with
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,
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,
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and
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, were tasked with forming a heavy metal supergroup, with Bach as the lead vocalist. The seven-episode series was filmed during a twelve-day period when the musicians all lived together in a mansion in
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. The resulting band, originally called "Fist", was eventually named
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; both names were Bach's ideas. Damnocracy had no recorded output. In 2007, Bach announced a partnership record label with
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to jointly create a label owned by him, including his album ''
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'', which was released on November 20, 2007. Bach also recorded backing vocals for the track "Sorry" on
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' long-delayed ''
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'', which was released in November 2008. He spent the summer of 2008 playing with
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and
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. He competed on the 2007
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reality show '' Celebrity Rap Superstar'', coming in third place. Bach was the winner of the second season of the CMT reality show ''
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'', which aired in 2008.


''Kicking and Screaming'' and Sterling's departure (2010–2012)

Bach toured as an opening act for Guns N' Roses' "Chinese Democracy Tour" 2009–2010, and performed "My Michelle" with
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in
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on February 1, 2010. On January 5, 2011, he was featured on NBC's Jimmy Fallon Show in a live performance and a subsequent video of "We Are The Ducks", a power ballad written for
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Ducks, set to play in the BCS national championship game Monday, January 10, 2011. In 2011, Bach was interviewed by British
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band
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in the March/April issue of ''
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''. The band are fans of Skid Row and covered two of their songs the preceding year of the interview. The same year, Bach performed "
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" with the band live at the Revolver Golden Gods Awards and
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. Bach was also filmed in their music video " Closure". Bach provided the voice of Prince Triton, King Neptune's rebellious son, in the ''
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'' episode, " SpongeBob and the Clash of Triton" in 2010. On June 15, 2011, Bach revealed the title of his upcoming solo album would be '' Kicking & Screaming''. On July 8, 2011 track list, cover art and title of the first single were revealed. It was released September 27, 2011 for North America and worldwide and September 23, 2011 for Europe on
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. On August 13, 2012, Nick Sterling was fired by Bach after refusing to sign an agreement to appear on an undisclosed TV show.


''Big Noize'' (2012–2013)

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(
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, Dio, Heaven & Hell) plus other "monsters" such as guitarist
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(
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), later replaced by George Lynch (
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, Lynch Mob), bassist
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(
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) and vocalist
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(
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). Turner was replaced by Bach for the Kavarna Rock festival on July 14, 2012 and for a tour to South America, starting in Chile on July 9, 2013.


''Give 'Em Hell and touring'' (2013–2023)

Bach being interviewed in 2014 On April 30, 2013, Bach confirmed via
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that a new studio album was in the works. He went on to say that
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would be returning as producer. Bach had collaboration work for the upcoming album with
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, and
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. On January 13, 2014, '' Give 'Em Hell'' was announced with a prospective release date of April 22, 2014. He also appeared in two ''
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'' episodes from their 2014 season. In 2014, Bach completed his Give 'Em Hell tour and in 2015, Bach went on another tour titled the "18 and LIVE" tour. In 2019, Bach toured behind the 30th anniversary of Skid Row's self-titled debut album, playing it live in its entirety. On July 20, 2021, it was announced that Bach would be doing a tour in the fall for the 30th anniversary of Skid Row's ''
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''.


''Child Within the Man'' (2023–present)

In 2023, Bach competed in season ten of ''
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'' as "Tiki". He was eliminated in "I Wanna Rock" alongside
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as "Husky". Also in December 2023, he released his first new song in nearly ten years, "What Do I Got to Lose?" In March 2024, Bach announced his forthcoming album, '' Child Within the Man''. It was released on May 10, 2024.


Personal life

At one time, Bach lived in
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. In August 2011, his New Jersey home was damaged by
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and declared uninhabitable. Several Kiss and Skid Row artifacts (including Skid Row master tapes) were in the house, but none were damaged. His father's art, comic books, and the Kiss gargoyles from their 1979 tour were also salvaged. In the mid-1980s, Bach began dating Maria Aquinar. The couple had a son, Paris, in 1988. Bach and Aquinar married in July 1992 and had another son, London, in 1994 and a daughter, Sebastiana, born in 2007. Bach and Aquinar split up in April 2010. In December 2010, Bach began dating model Minnie Gupta. They were engaged in April 2012 but ended their engagement in late 2014. On December 28, 2014, Bach became engaged to Suzanne Le after two months of dating. They married in August 2015 and currently live in Los Angeles. On July 13, 2017, Bach underwent "singing-related"
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surgery. He started to recover a month later and then explained that the operation was needed, "because eliterally screamed isguts out." Bach endorsed US Vice President
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in the
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.


Solo band members


Current

* Sebastian Bach – vocals (1997–present) * Clay Eubank – bass (2024–present) * Brody DeRozie – guitars (2024–present) * Paris Bach – drums (2024–present)


Former

* Mark "Bam Bam" McConnell – drums (1997–2005) * Jimmy Flemion – guitars (1997–1999) * Larry Fisher– bass (1997–1999) * Richie Scarlet – guitars (1998–2002) *
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– drums (1998–2000) *
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– guitars (1999–2004) * Johnny Chromatic – guitars (2004–2014) *
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– guitars (2004–2005) * Randall X. Rawlings – guitars (2004–2005) * Adam Albright – guitar (2004–2005) * Cheeze (né Brian Hall) – bass (2004–2005) * Mike Dover – drums (2004) * Bobby Jarzombek – drums (2005–2019) *
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– guitars (2005–2008) *
Steve Di Giorgio Steve Di Giorgio (born November 7, 1967) is an American bass guitarist. He is known for his work with numerous heavy metal bands such as Sadus (of which he was a co-founder), Death, Testament, Megadeth, Sebastian Bach, Iced Earth, Autopsy, Ob ...
– bass (2005–2007) * Nick Sterling – guitars (2009–2012) * Jason Christopher – bass (2012–2014) * Jeff George – guitars (2012–2013) * Devin Bronson – guitars (2013–2014) * Brent Woods – guitars (2014–2024) *
Rob De Luca Rob De Luca is an American bassist and vocalist, best known for playing in UFO and as a founding member of Spread Eagle. He has also toured with Sebastian Bach, Joan Jett and the Blackhearts, Of Earth and Helmet. Early years De Luca starte ...
– bass (2005–2012, 2014–2024) * Jeremy Colson – drums (2019–2024)


Discography

*'' Bring 'Em Bach Alive!'' (1999) *''
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'' (2007) *'' Kicking & Screaming'' (2011) *'' Give 'Em Hell'' (2014) *'' Child Within the Man'' (2024)


Filmography


Film


Television


Stage


References


External links

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