Jack White was born John Anthony Gillis on 9th July 1975 into a musical, catholic family of 10 children in Detroit. He learned to play the guitar, drums and piano. He played in many bands growing up including The Go, Two Star Tabernacle. At 17 he was offered an apprenticeship at Muldoon Studio-an upholstery shop...See full bio »
2008Quantum of Solace
(writer: "Another Way to Die" / performer: "Another Way to Die" / producer: "Another Way to Die")
2008It Might Get Loud
(documentary)
(writer: "Hotel Yorba", "Blue Veins", "Broken Boy Soldier", "Do", "Icky Thump", "Apple of My Eye", "Fell in Love with a Girl", "Untitled Slide Blues Riffs", "Steady, As She Goes", "Dead Leaves and the Dirty Ground", "Screwdriver", "Fly Farm Blues", "300 M.P.H. Torrential Outpour Blues" / performer: "I Will Follow", "Untitled Slide Blues Riffs", "Dead Leaves and the Dirty Ground", "Fly Farm Blues", "In My Time of Dying", "The Weight")
2008Shine a Light
(documentary)
(performer: "Loving Cup")
2004White Stripes: Under Blackpool Lights
(video documentary)
(writer: "When I Hear My Name", "Black Math", "Dead Leaves and the Dirty Ground", "I Think I Smell a Rat", "Astro", "Hotel Yorba", "Do", "The Hardest Button to Button", "Truth Doesn't Make a Noise", "The Big Three Killed My Baby", "Wasting My Time", "You're Pretty Good Looking for a Girl", "Hello Operator", "Apple Blossom", "Ball and Biscuit", "Let's Shake Hands", "I Fought Piranhas/Let's Build a Home", "Seven Nation Army")
2003Cold Mountain
(lyrics: "Christmas Time will Soon be Over" / performer: "Christmas Time will Soon be Over", "Wayfaring Stranger", "Great High Mountain" / arranger: "Christmas Time will Soon be Over")
2002The Hot Chick
(writer: "You're Pretty Good Looking")
2003The Work of Director Michel Gondry
(video documentary)
Himself (segments "Dead Leaves & the Dirty Ground", "The Hardest Button to Button" and "I've Been Twelve Forever")
(as The White Stripes)
Appears in The White Stripes music videos for "Hotel Yorba," "We're Going to be Friends," "Fell in Love with a Girl," "Dead Leaves and the Dirty Ground," "Seven Nation Army," "The Hardest Button to Button," "Jolene," "Blue Orchid,"...
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[on growing up in Detroit] I think you learn how to walk down the street in a certain way. I think you just learn to have a way about yourself, a style of walking down the street, that keeps people away from you.
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Trivia:
2003 Grammy winner - songwriter - Best Rock Song - "Seven Nation Army" - The White Stripes.
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