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My Take
Bret Michaels is glam metal personified to me, the bandana-and-bravado frontman of Poison who somehow outlasted the genre that made him. Coming out of Butler, Pennsylvania, he fronted a band that moved over 65 million albums, and even people who roll their eyes at hair metal know the words to Every Rose Has Its Thorn, that surprisingly tender number-one ballad. What I respect is his durability: singer, songwriter, guitarist, and later a reality-television fixture, he kept finding new stages well past his MTV heyday. He has always struck me as someone who understood that survival in music is half talent and half sheer refusal to quit.
Overview
Bret Michael Sychak (born March 15, 1963), known professionally as Bret Michaels, is an American rock musician. He is the frontman of Poison, which has sold over 65 million albums worldwide and 30 million records in the United States. The band has also charted 10 singles to the Top 40 of the Billboard Hot 100, including six Top 10 singles and a number-one single, "Every Rose Has Its Thorn".
Summary adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
1. Profile
- Name (English)
- Bret Michaels
- Name (Japanese)
- ブレット・マイケルズ
- Reading
- ぶれっと・まいけるず
- Born
- March 15, 1963 (age 63)
- Zodiac / Chinese zodiac
- Pisces / Rabbit
- Origin
- Butler, Pennsylvania, United States
- Blood type
- Private
- Height
- Private
- Agency
- Private
- Occupation
- singer / singer-songwriter / composer / guitarist / recording artist
2. Background
- Elementary school
- Private
- Junior high
- Private
- High school
- Mechanicsburg Area Senior High School
- University
- Private
3. Relationships
- Spouse
- Private
- Children
- Private
- Parents
- Private
- Siblings
- Private
4. Personality
Motto
Private
6. Links
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7. About this entry
Tags
- Last updated
- 2026-06-02
Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public items are marked "Private / Unknown". English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.