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HAPPY B’DAY ANTHONY KIEDIS

LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-NOV 1, 2019…HAPPY 57th BIRTHDAY TO ANTHONY KIEDIS. KIEDIS IS BEST KNOWN AS THE LEAD SINGER OF RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS AND AS A FOUNDING MEMBER OF THE BAND HAS APPEARED ON EVERY ALBUM RELEASED BY THE BAND. KIEDIS MIGHT HAVE THE MOST AMAZING STORY OF ANYONE IN ROCK AND ROLL. THE PRODUCT OF A DIVORCE, HE CHOSE TO WHEN HE WAS 12 HE MOVED IN WITH HIS FATHER , A STRUGGLING ACTOR IN HOLLYWOOD. TO MAKE ENDS MEET, HIS DAD SOLD DRUGS, AND WOULD OFTEN SHARE MARIJUANA AND COCAINE WITH HIS SON. KIEDIS ACCIDENTALLY TRIED HEROIN AT THE AGE OF 14 , THINKING IT WAS COCAINE.

HE MET FLEA IN HIGH SCHOOL AND THE TWO BECAME VIRTUALLY INSEPARABLE. AFTER DROPPING OUT OF COLLEGE, KIEDIS TEAMED UP WITH FLEA, HILLEL SLOVAK, AND JACK IRONS TO FORM THE RHCP’S. WITH THE PEPPERS, KIEDIS HAS RECORDED TWELVE STUDIO ALBUMS.

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