Corey Taylor

Corey Taylor is one of those guys who makes you rethink what a rock vocalist can actually do. Born in Des Moines, Iowa — not exactly the heavy metal capital of the world — he somehow willed himself into fronting two massively successful bands simultaneously: Slipknot, where his masked, unhinged ferocity became iconic, and Stone Sour, where he showed a completely different, melodic side that most scream-first vocalists simply don't have. What gets me is the range — not just vocal range, but the range of the whole person. He writes books, does acting, speaks his mind constantly, and yet the music never feels like it's on autopilot. Now in his 50s with that same Iowa-stubborn energy intact, he's proof that authenticity in heavy music isn't a young person's game.

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Name (English)

Corey Taylor

Name (Japanese)

コリィ・テイラー

Reading

こりぃ・ていらー

Born

December 8, 1973 (age 52)

Origin

Des Moines, Iowa, United States

Occupation

singer / writer / vocalist / composer / actor

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Sagittarius / Ox

High school

Waterloo East High School

• Official sitehttps://www.thecoreytaylor.com/
• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/coreytaylor/
• Xhttps://x.com/CoreyTaylorRock
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corey%20Taylor
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B3%E3%83%AA%E3%82%A3%E3%83%BB%E3%83%86%E3%82%A4%E3%83%A9%E3%83%BC
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q295120

Tags

• Iowa
• singer
• writer
• vocalist

Last updated

October 18, 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.