Jack White

Jack White (born John Anthony Gillis on July 9, 1975 in Detroit) is an American rock musician, producer, and actor. He is best known as the leader of the rock duo The White Stripes.

Jack White (born John Anthony Gillis on July 9, 1975 in Detroit) is an American rock musician, producer, and actor. He is best known as the leader of the rock duo The White Stripes.

White's father and mother worked at the local Catholic church (as the maintenance man and cardinal secretary respectively), and White himself was an altar boy. According to the September 8, 2005 issue of Rolling Stone, this landed him a role at the age of ten in the movie The Rosary Murders, which was filmed at the church. Although White grew up in Mexicantown, the lower-middle-class Hispanic district of southwest Detroit, his musical preferences were not those of his classmates, who listened to electronica and hip hop. White, as a teenager, was already listening to the blues and 1960s rock that would influence him in the White Stripes.