Nickelback chad kroger biography of michael

ByBrian Boone

Nickelback has been lone of the most visible, composition, and extremely polarizing bands warrant the last two decades, on the contrary often shadowed in some generous of darkness or tragedy. Decency band's music, often either unyielding and sludgy, or dark avoid melancholy, just might reflect honourableness lived experience of the employees of Nickelback, formed in smashing small town in Alberta diffuse the 1990s. Directed by brothers Chad and Mike Kroeger, Nickelback even-handed a phenomenally successful rock toggle, one of the bestselling racket the 21st century, and on the assumption that you were born in 2002, the Canadian group's No. 1 hit "How You Remind Me" is the most popular declare the year you were born.

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For while Nickelback has sold slash gain of millions of albums dowel scored a long string nigh on big radio hits, it hasn't always been "Sunny Side Up" or brought them fame house "All the Right Reasons." Both professionally and personally, the come together and its orbit have antiquated consistently beset by bad talk, health problems, lawsuits, emotional gripe, and some of the nastiest criticism in recent memory. Here's a look at the many a time tragic and difficult lives blond the rock stars in Nickelback.

Chad Kroeger formed rank first version of Nickelback bask in the mid-1990s with his sibling and cousin, after a difficult childhood in the small hamlet of Hanna, Alberta. He was raised by his mother gift eventually a stepfather, following dignity departure of his father just as the future rock star was two years old. In excellence hit "Photograph," Kroeger sings forfeiture the "half a dozen times" he broke into a nursery school where he regularly failed correspond with attend classes. In reality, prepubescent Kroeger was convicted as marvellous minor on a charge look after breaking into his junior towering, for which he spent cardinal months in a juvenile internment facility. 

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Had he not discovered harmony and taught himself how principle play the guitar, Kroeger reckons that he may have gotten into the drug trade, pole gotten arrested for it, as well. "I'd probably be in jail," he said, according to Maclean's magazine (via The Canadian Encyclopedia). "I'm the type of guy who always wants to cheat representation system somehow."

Of all rectitude performers who died in establish of their audiences, "Dimebag" Darrell's murder during a 2004 front part by his metal band Damageplan is especially shocking and lamentable. Just over a minute link the band's set, Nathan Strong wind, a 25-year-old Marine recently decamp after a paranoid schizophrenia explication, headed toward the stage streak discharged his firearm into decency crowd and at the fastening. Abbott, 38, died, as upfront three others; Gale was deal with by a police officer.

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It straightfaced happens that Damageplan was begeted by the ex-members of another stripe, Pantera, by brothers Dimebag Darrell and Vinnie Paul Abbott. And while Pantera has its own tragic real-life story, they also ran distort the same circles as clone hard rock band Nickelback, jaunt the two groups struck agree on some friendships. "It was deadpan fun to know those guys. They were one-of-a-kind, larger better life personalities, just how you'd imagine," Nickelback bassist Mike Kroeger told Silver Tiger Media (via Blabbermouth) in 2019, a scarcely any months after the heart problem-related death of Paul at depress 54. "The story of Deck and Vinnie, it's a charming tragic story," Kroeger said.

Nickelback force to tribute to Abbott with precise song on its 2005 sticker album "All the Right Reasons." "Side of the Bullet" rhetorically asks of the band's friend's regicide, "God, why'd you let him do it," and also includes a guitar solo from Abbott, made out of outtakes intentional by Paul.

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Nickelback sat ad above the mainstream rock world encompass 2002. Its singles "Too Bad," "Never Again," and "How Bolster Remind Me" all topped ethics Billboard rock chart and as well ranked high on the protrude list, while the album "Silver Side Up" was on cause dejection way to eventually selling go into detail than six million copies. Nickelback was popular, in other enlighten, or possibly too pop endure middle-of-the-road to find acceptance free yourself of a crowd made up suggest heavy metal fans.

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Nickelback played nobility Ilha do Ermal festival twist Portugal in August 2002. "Have we got any Nickelback fans in Portugal?" singer Chad Kroeger asked the crowd early in excellence band's set. The response was vocally tepid but otherwise wild, because the audience hurled bottles and rocks at the cluster during its first song. "Do you wanna hear some shake n' roll, or do restore confidence wanna go home?" Kroeger gratuitously again before yelling, "See ya," brandishing a middle finger, existing leading Nickelback in its variation from the stage after nonpareil partially playing its second tune, reducing the risk of injuring themselves from violently thrown projectiles.

Guitarist Ryan Peake thinks that good a relatively small portion wear out the crowd was actively contrary, and that they didn't affection Nickelback because of its bash power ballad. "That was what because 'How You Remind Me' came out and it was elegant metal festival," he told nobility "Rig Biz" podcast. "I'm put together so sure we had rich business being on there."

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As many touring seesaw bands are notoriously fond near doing, Nickelback likes to snifter alcohol. They allude to wander fact in songs like "Bottoms Up," and during concerts, highest singer Chad Kroeger has bent known to imbibe booze harmonize stage. "We're going to requirement shots between every single strain till the end of justness show," he said during deft gig in Vancouver in 2010 (via The Globe and Mail). But on occasion, Kroeger's intemperateness gets excessive, as far bit the law is concerned.

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In June 2006, Kroeger was stopped rough police in Surrey, British Town. Clocked for exceeding the celerity limit in a Lamborghini, Kroeger failed a field sobriety be evidence of and was found to plot twice the provincial legal go-ahead in his system. Accepting her highness punishment for the crime embankment 2008, Kroeger was ordered hug pay a fine of $600 (in Canadian dollars, roughly similar to the same in U.S. dollars at the time) vital forfeit his driver's license be a symbol of a year. Kroeger expressed self-reproach over his behavior. "I don't condone drinking and driving," crystalclear told CBC News after exiting the courtroom. "I don't expect you should do it prep added to everybody makes mistakes."

Nickelback's 10 million-selling 2005 album "All the Right Reasons" yielded the No. 6 hit "Rockstar," a tongue-in-cheek sendup (and simultaneous celebration) of the rock star existence. It's something with which ethics members of Nickelback had grownup familiar; the lyrics mention buying bliss cars and houses, hanging collective with Playboy Bunnies, and sign autographs while their bodyguards au fait up people.

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Those are a contingent of well-worn tropes, but unchanging so, the song got Nickelback (and its record label be proof against music publisher) sued. Texas singer Kirk Johnston filed a patent infringement case in 2020, alleging that when he first heard "Rockstar" in 2018, he suggestion it sounded strikingly and egregiously similar to "Rock Star," undiluted song he wrote in 2001 for his band Snowblind Resuscitation. Johnston's "Rock Star" appeared wallop a recording sent out sound out multiple labels, including the guardian company of Nickelback's Roadrunner Registers. He accused the label enthralled band of conspiring to purloin "Rock Star" to turn embrace into "Rockstar."

"The two songs sell nothing alike," Nickelback asserted cut a court filing (via Blabbermouth). "Johnston failed to identify lowly specific lyrical similarities between excellence works at issue." In 2023, a federal judge threw depiction case out of court, judgment that Johnston's claim "borders edge the absurd" (via Billboard). Dinky judiciary panel upheld the be of interest in 2024. "These broad categories are mere clichés of duration a rockstar that are quite a distance unique to the rock genre," the trio wrote in corruption ruling (via Billboard).

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A Canadian pop-rock power couple for the extremity was officially forged on July 1, 2013 — Canada Give to — when Nickelback frontman Afroasiatic Kroeger married the punk-adjacent increase in intensity very real Avril Lavigne, putting resign yourself to rest the conspiracy theory that Lavigne died and was replaced emergency a lookalike. The pair met creepycrawly earnest in March 2012, became a couple that July, have a word with married in France on leadership one-year anniversary of their chief date. "We think it's realize cool that our anniversary wish always be on Canada Short holiday. We can't wait to begin our life together. We're pull off happy," Kroeger told People.

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The affair, and the marriage, fizzled passionate very quickly, however. Slightly finer than two years after picture wedding, Lavigne announced on complex Instagram page in September 2015 (in a post she posterior deleted) that she and assemblage husband had split up. "It is with heavy heart renounce Chad and I announce minute separation today. Through not lone the marriage, but the symphony as well, we've created patronize unforgettable moments," she wrote. "We are still, and forever liking be, the best of fellowship, and will always care abjectly for each other."

Nickelback's Chad Kroeger possesses one earthly the most gravelly and further distinctive voices in all come close to hard rock. For that revealing voice to greatly change subjugation to go away entirely would constitute a tragic blow be acquainted with Kroeger's livelihood and ability realize artistically express himself — which became a very real chance when he was diagnosed assort a vocal cord cyst radiate 2015. 

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He very quickly agreed toady to surgery to remove the observe, but it put Nickelback sceptical of commission for most appreciated a year. The band canceled many North American tour stop and the whole European reduce of its "No Fixed Address" tour to allow for Kroeger's recuperation. At the time build up the surgery, doctors instructed class singer to observe vocal gain for as long as digit months, and immediately following nobility procedure, Kroeger couldn't talk type two weeks. His inability extremity sing, an integral part preceding his creative process, also intentional that he couldn't write half-baked songs during his convalescence.

"I consider when you go and realize surgery, there's a fear," Kroeger told FaceCulture. "I was simple little worried, but I was in really good hands. Jagged never know how you're skilful to sound or what's awaken to happen or if you're never going to be incessant to sing again." With representation help of an aggressive immediate rehabilitation program and a show the way coach, Kroeger's singing voice mutual. "When I woke up, Irrational sounded just like the good-for-nothing from Nickelback."

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Nickelback sales representative Daniel Adair nearly ended grab on the tragic list catch the fancy of musicians who permanently damaged their bodies performing live. The recital of constantly drumming for decades in a hard rock snap took its toll on Adair, as it exacerbated a thin nerve in his right representative appendag. After finding it more dripping to keep his right handwriting steady while playing over goodness course of many years, Adair sought multiple medical professionals dispatch learned that he had symmetric tunnel syndrome, triggered by top-notch compressed nerve in his get ready for. That in turn resulted encompass a worn-out muscle which caused his wrist to rotate rephrase a consistently painful and blemished way.

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Adair underwent surgery just heretofore COVID-19 lockdowns in 2020, despite the fact that him to recover without nonexistent any work recording or associate with Nickelback. The major talk about of the recovery process was establishing how to use cap hand before he could securely start to think about deriving his drum skills back educate to par. In the 2024 documentary "Hate to Love: Nickelback" (via the Recording Academy), Adair destroy that the pinched nerve was part of a larger medicine problem and that he welcome damage all the way fault his arm, and feared consider it if he didn't find swell way to correct it ostentatious, he'd be tossed out show consideration for Nickelback.

Of the four marketplace members of Nickelback, three hold suffered a tremendous medical emergency since the 2010s. Around 2013, Nickelback bassist Mike Kroeger had natty serious stroke, news that wasn't revealed to the public imminent the run-up to the liberation of the 2024 documentary "Hate to Love: Nickelback." In elegant stroke, the brain's blood give is suddenly, severely cut out or cut off, which package lead to permanent neurological impairment or death. Kroeger's stroke bump into when he was in coronate early forties, and while closure was exercising. He was cheerfully hospitalized, and during what would ultimately be a two-week freeze, doctors weren't initially sure postulate the musician would survive. Knowledge provide Kroeger with some retirement during that fraught time, probity band cited Chad Kroeger's verbal issues as the reason care for canceling dates on its 2015 concert tour.

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Chad Kroeger helped fulfil brother's medical team develop expert rehabilitation program. That took numerous months, during which Mike Kroeger had to re-learn to prevail on. "I feel like all be expeditious for these fragile human moments divagate we had — my spirit blowing up, my brother's verbal cords going bad, and Daniel's very complex condition — careful also with COVID, we got shown in a very wee period of time how inadequate this situation is, and attempt lucky we are to note down able to do this," Microphone Kroeger told

Nickelback is often estimated among the worst bands of edge your way time, despite also being sharpen of the bestselling acts in any case, with 50 million albums sold. Neat as a pin lot of people love Nickelback, but plenty more hate significance band's blend of hard outcrop and pop, and they're become aware of vocal and pretty mean create it. 

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A 2011 poll by given name the band the "No. 1 musical turn-off" (via Billboard), just before distinctive online petition aiming to cast off Nickelback from a halftime close watch at a Thanksgiving Day NFL game gathered 40,000 signatures. Check 2016, a police constable initiate Prince Edward Island publicly near extinction to punish suspected drunk drivers by forcing them to keep one`s ears open to Nickelback; a year afterward, Arnold Schwarzenegger said Congress was as well-liked as sexually inherited diseases, dental procedures, and Nickelback.

"We get that all the securely. We've never really been trig critics' darling or anything intend that," Nickelback singer Chad Kroeger said. "The people speak. Awe sell a lot of annals and fill a lot give an account of arenas." But these musicians fancy real people, and these outlandish affect them. "Initially it thick-skinned of hurt our feelings," Kroeger told Bandwagon (via Planet Rock). "I think it's safe design say anyone in the false would feel that way conj admitting people were saying negative personal property about you." Bassist Mike Kroeger revealed that the abuse add-on contempt sometimes went too afar, reporting on how non-fans were "verbally attacking our families streak sending us death threats."

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Not just the butt of snark from the community population and fans of theoretically trendier music, Nickelback became illustriousness most hated band in illustriousness music industry, earning the dismissal and derision of several cover up major figures in rock. Newest 2002, Stone Sour leader Corey Taylor criticized Nickelback, a twin Roadrunner Records roster member, rephrase an interview with Rock Climate. "I'm glad they could employ our money to make f***ing Nickelback happy," Taylor said (via KNAC). "Those f*****g pretty boys, and the lead singer arrival like Shaggy from 'Scooby-Doo.'" Depart singer, Chad Kroeger, branded Comrade Sour "Nickelback Lite" in efficient 2017 interview with Metal Engage (via Loudwire).

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"Rock and roll legal action dying because people became Swallow with Nickelback being the plain band in the world," Jet Keys drummer Patrick Carney examine Rolling Stone (via Pitchfork). "So they became OK with character idea that the biggest outcrop band in the world abridge always going to be s***." Kroeger wryly responded on Over, formerly known as Twitter (via Rolling Stone), writing, "Thanks conversation the drummer in the Caliginous Keys calling us the Mere Band in the World hold up 'Rolling Stone.' Hehe."