Axl Rose

Axl Rose remains, to me, the most fascinating contradiction in rock. The feral shriek and the delicate piano balladry come from the same restless man out of small-town Indiana, and that range still startles me decades on. He has been the lone constant of Guns N' Roses since 1985, weathering feuds, lineup chaos, and his own perfectionism — he would rather risk ridicule than release something he does not believe in. I do not always admire his choices, but I admire that stubbornness enormously. Voices like his arrive maybe once a generation, and the chaos seems to be part of the price.

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Name (English)

Axl Rose

Name (Japanese)

アクセル・ローズ

Reading

あくせる・ろーず

Born

February 6, 1962 (age 64)

Origin

Lafayette, Indiana, United States

Height

175 cm

Occupation

vocalist / singer-songwriter / pianist / activist / rock singer

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Aquarius / Tiger

High school

Jefferson High School

• Official sitehttps://www.axlrose.com/
• Xhttps://x.com/axlrose
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axl%20Rose
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%A2%E3%82%AF%E3%82%BB%E3%83%AB%E3%83%BB%E3%83%AD%E3%83%BC%E3%82%BA
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11885

Tags

• Indiana
• vocalist
• singer-songwriter
• pianist

Last updated

November 2, 2026

Only publicly available facts are listed; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. Base data was compiled from Wikidata from June 2026 onward; ages are recalculated daily and deaths are checked against Wikidata on an ongoing basis. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.