1a. Lead singer and main lyricist for prominent 90's alternative rock and heavy metal band Alice in Chains, as well as side projects
Mad Season and Class of '99. (8/22/67-
4/5/02)
b. Largely noted for powerful, throat style singing, which became a model for later singers.
2a. Born 8/22/67 in
3a. Popular example of the toll drugs take.
b. Showed frightening and rapid
physical change (including, but not limited to, loss of body mass resulting in a
gaunt look, shortening of vocal range).
c. After the death of hi girlfriend,
Demri Parrot, his condition deteriorated, and was forced by drug-induced sickliness to seclusion from 1996 until his overdose death in 2002; rarely seen publicly from 1996 to 1998, and never seen publicly after 1998.
d. Had, reportedly, over ten unsuccessful rehab stints.