Bret Michaels

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.

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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)

Origin

Butler, Pennsylvania, United States

Occupation

singer / singer-songwriter / composer / guitarist / recording artist

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Pisces / Rabbit

High school

Mechanicsburg Area Senior High School

• Official sitehttps://www.bretmichaels.com/
• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/bretmichaelsofficial/
• Xhttps://x.com/bretmichaels
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bret%20Michaels
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%96%E3%83%AC%E3%83%83%E3%83%88%E3%83%BB%E3%83%9E%E3%82%A4%E3%82%B1%E3%83%AB%E3%82%BA
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q365042

Tags

• Pennsylvania
• singer
• singer-songwriter
• composer

Last updated

September 25, 2026

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.