Biography for
Frank Black (I) More at IMDbPro »

Date of Birth

6 April 1965, Boston, Massachusetts USA

Birth Name

Charles Michael Kitridge Thompson IV

Height

5' 8" (1.73 m)

Spouse

Violet Clark	(2003 - present) 2 children
Jean Black	(? - 2003) (divorced)

Trivia

Developed his trademark singing style after a friend told him to scream The Beatles' "Oh Darling" "like you hate that b****!"

Former lead singer of the influential alternative group The Pixies.

The Pixies reunited in 2004.

Black is referenced in the song "Fire Water Burn" by Bloodhound gang, with the lyric "I'm not black like Barry White, no, I'm white like Frank Black is". The song then pays homage to Black's band Pixies by rewriting several lines of their song "Monkey Gone to Heaven" from Pixies' seminal 1989 album "Doolittle".

First child, son Jack Errol Thompson, was born on 7 January 2005 in Springfield, Oregon.

Frank and his wife Violet welcomed their second child, Lucy Berlin on April 21st. She was born at 5:30 am, weighing just under 8 lbs, 10 oz

Black is referenced in the song "Veruca Salt Et Frank Black" by Vincent Delerm in the album Kensington Square [2004].

Was approached for the part of Victor Modino in Heavy (1995). He turned it down, saying he "didn't want to play that type of character".

Personal Quotes

I think that morality is not God-given or even acquired through religion, it's natural, innate and, to be honest, pretty damn obvious. It's obvious you shouldn't steal, kill or be cruel.

It is just sort of insulting, though, that all I will probably be remembered for is that fact that a very famous dude casually dropped my name in an interview. That this is as good as it will get for me, that I will always be subservient to that remark. (On Kurt Cobain)