Megan Martha White Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018
Meg White (born Megan Martha White on December 10, 1974) is an American drummer from Detroit, Michigan best known for her work with Jack White in the Detroit rock duo The White Stripes. After she played on Jack's drums on an impulse in 1997, the two decided to form a band and began performing two months later. Calling themselves The White Stripes, because of Meg's preference for peppermint candy, the band quickly became a Detroit underground favorite, before reaching national, then international fame. Meg has been nominated for various awards as a part of the group, and has won several, including four Grammy Awards.Her drumming style has been called "primal" for its simplicity, and drew both praise and criticism from fans and critics. Jack has been a vocal advocate for her playing, calling her critics "sexist." Her musical influences are wide and varied, with Bob Dylan being her favourite artist.She is considered to be one of the best drummers in musical history. hands down. ever.By her own admission, Meg is "very shy," and has kept a very low public profile. Though publicly insisting they were siblings, public records emerged in 2001 that indicated that she and Jack got married in 1996, prior to the band's formation; they divorced in 2000, before The White Stripes ascended to international fame. In 2009, she married guitarist Jackson Smith—son of musicians Patti Smith and Fred "Sonic" Smith—but they divorced in 2013.While on tour in support for their sixth studio album, Icky Thump, she suffered from acute anxiety, and the remaining dates of the tour were cancelled. After a few public appearances, and a hiatus from recording, The White Stripes announced in February 2011 that they would be disbanding. She has not been active in the music industry since.
Catherine White, Walter Hackett White Jr., Seven Nation Army, Icky Thump, Fell in Love With a Girl
Siblings
Heather White
Music Groups
The White Stripes
Nominations
NME Award for Hottest Woman
Movies
The White Stripes Under Great White Northern Lights, Coffee and Cigarettes, The White Stripes: Rhinoceros
Star Sign
Sagittarius
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Aloofness
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You know, when I hear music, I just hear the whole thing.
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I remember rehearsing it, and it was the one that we were really excited about and thought would sound the best, and once it was down on tape, it was like, This doesn't actually sound that good.
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That's what my Dad always told me, on the ballot, they should always have a third choice, like none of the above, then if enough people picked that, they'd have to get new candidates.
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The only things that are a little bit newer are the CD burners, but we hid them under the table, so basically we had the feeling we were somewhere completely different, in another time.
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Maybe I'm a little more confident than I used to be, but not much.
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The cover of Mojo, that was good for us.
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Then we're going to take a lot of time off because in the last three years we've been touring continuously.
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There's nothing I'm doing these days that I ever thought I was gonna do.
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We'll probably be working on another album in the next few months here.
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It's cool to meet your idols. It's a good opportunity to travel. Those kinds of things are good.
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It's hard listening to myself.
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It's pretty sad when you have to choose between the lesser of two evils.
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It's the emotion of it that hits me, more than anything technical.
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Like, people recognizing me on the street never interested me.
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I got more used to my own voice, but still it's hard for me to listen to my own voice, or hear the recordings.
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I have to have the cotton candy shipped in.
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I met Drew Barrymore in New York and she said she liked the band. That was really cool. I grew up on her.
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I think there's a lot of problems with being a two-party system.
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I've never been much into picking things apart.
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I wouldn't want to be in a Lisa episode. They're kind of boring. Maybe a Homer one would be better.
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Downtown Detroit has more vacant buildings over 10 storeys than any city in the world.
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Even at the last minute we were still debating what was gonna be released as the first single.
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Every second is mapped out and he has this total childish fascination with color and shapes and sequences.
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Everything else outside me seems far, far away.
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It's hard to get that real good feeling about festivals sometimes.
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I don't want to know about my biggest idols. I don't want to read their autobiographies, I don't want to find out what they're really like.
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Apparently, there's a little red demon dwarf that haunts the city, and before every major bad thing that's happened, it's appeared to somebody. Last time, he appeared in a Cadillac. [on Detroit's legend of Le Nain Rouge]
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I've always kind of lived in my own world.
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Because you can be lazy if you don't know the truth.
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(June 7, 2005) The new White Stripes album, titled "Get Behind Me Satan" is released. [June 2005]