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Alice Cooper (born Vincent Damon Furnier; February 4, 1948) is an American singer, songwriter, musician and occasional actor whose career spans five decades. With a stage show that features guillotines, electric chairs, fake blood, boa constrictors, baby dolls, and dueling swords, Cooper is considered by music journalists and peers alike to be "The Godfather of Shock Rock"; he has drawn equally from horror movies, vaudeville, and garage rock to pioneer a macabre, theatrical brand of rock designed to shock people. Cooper is also known for his distinctive raspy voice. Originating in Phoenix in the late 1960s after he moved from Detroit, Alice Cooper was originally a band consisting of Furnier on vocals and harmonica, lead guitarist Glen Buxton, Michael Bruce on rhythm guitar, Dennis Dunaway on bass guitar, and drummer Neal Smith. The original Alice Cooper band broke into the international music mainstream with the 1971 hit "I'm Eighteen" from the album ''Love It to Death'', which was followed by the even bigger single "School's Out" in 1972. The band reached their commercial peak with the 1973 album ''Billion Dollar Babies''. Furnier adopted the band's name as his own name in the 1970s and began a solo career with the 1975 concept album ''Welcome to My Nightmare''. In 2011 he released ''Welcome 2 My Nightmare'', his 19th album as a solo artist, and his 26th album in total. Expanding from his Detroit rock roots, in his career Cooper has experimented with a number of musical styles, including art rock, hard rock, heavy metal, new wave, pop rock, experimental rock and industrial rock. Alice Cooper is known for his social and witty persona offstage, with ''The Rolling Stone Album Guide'' calling him the world's most "beloved heavy metal entertainer". He is credited with helping to shape the sound and look of heavy metal, and has been described as the artist who "first introduced horror imagery to rock'n'roll, and whose stagecraft and showmanship have permanently transformed the genre". Away from music, Cooper is a film actor, a golfing celebrity, a restaurateur, and, since 2004, a popular radio DJ with his classic rock show ''Nights with Alice Cooper''. In 2011, the original Alice Cooper band was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.〔 ==Early life== Cooper was born in Detroit, Michigan, the son of Ella Mae (née McCart) and Ether Moroni Furnier (1924–1987). His father was a preacher in the Church of Jesus Christ headquartered in Monongahela, Pennsylvania. He has English, Huguenot, Irish, Scottish, and Sioux ancestry, and was named after one of his uncles (Vincent Collier Furnier) and the writer Damon Runyon.〔"The Fabulous Furniers" – chapter one of ''Alice Cooper, Golf Monster: A Rock 'n' Roller's 12 Steps to Becoming a Golf Addict''〕 His paternal grandfather, Thurman Sylvester Furnier, was an apostle in the Church of Jesus Christ. Cooper was active in his church at the ages of 11 and 12.〔Cooper, Alice ''Me: Alice'' (autobiography)〕 While growing up in Detroit, he attended Washington Elementary School, then Nankin Mills Jr. High, now Lutheran High School Westland. Following a series of childhood illnesses, he moved with his family to Phoenix, Arizona, where he attended Cortez High School in north Phoenix,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Alice Cooper Biography )〕 then to Glendale Community College, eventually earning a BFA. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Alice Cooper」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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