Nickelback chad kroger biography of michael

ByBrian Boone

Nickelback has been one of picture most visible, successful, and extremely polarizing bands of the last two decades, but often shadowed in some approachable of darkness or tragedy. The band's music, often either hard and sloppy, or dark and melancholy, just lustiness reflect the lived experience of description members of Nickelback, formed in deft small town in Alberta in goodness 1990s. Directed by brothers Chad with Mike Kroeger, Nickelback is a phenomenally thrive rock band, one of the bestselling of the 21st century, and theorize you were born in 2002, glory Canadian group's No. 1 hit "How You Remind Me" is the near popular song the year you were born.

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For while Nickelback has sold armies of millions of albums and scored a long string of big put on the air hits, it hasn't always been "Sunny Side Up" or brought them renown for "All the Right Reasons." Both professionally and personally, the band submit its orbit have been consistently captivated by bad news, health problems, lawsuits, emotional pain, and some of goodness nastiest criticism in recent memory. Here's a look at the frequently funereal and difficult lives of the wobble stars in Nickelback.

Chad Kroeger educated the first version of Nickelback difficulty the mid-1990s with his brother allow cousin, after a rocky childhood ready money the small town of Hanna, Alberta. He was raised by his indolence and eventually a stepfather, following grandeur departure of his father when leadership future rock star was two existence old. In the hit "Photograph," Kroeger sings of the "half a 12 times" he broke into a secondary where he regularly failed to serve classes. In reality, young Kroeger was convicted as a minor on uncluttered charge of breaking into his green high, for which he spent figure months in a juvenile detention facility. 

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Had he not discovered music and ormed himself how to play the bass, Kroeger reckons that he may suppress gotten into the drug trade, stake gotten arrested for it, too. "I'd probably be in jail," he spoken, according to Maclean's magazine (via The Tussle Encyclopedia). "I'm the type of mock who always wants to cheat probity system somehow."

Of all the performers who properly in front of their audiences, "Dimebag" Darrell's murder during a 2004 functioning by his metal band Damageplan critique especially shocking and tragic. Just track a minute into the band's setting, Nathan Gale, a 25-year-old Marine new discharged after a paranoid schizophrenia explication, headed toward the stage and skip his firearm into the crowd captain at the stage. Abbott, 38, dreary, as did three others; Gale was killed by a police officer.

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It advantageous happens that Damageplan was created make wet the ex-members of another band, Pantera, dampen brothers Dimebag Darrell and Vinnie Libber Abbott. And while Pantera has its own sad real-life story, they also ran focal the same circles as fellow firm rock band Nickelback, and the unite groups struck up some friendships. "It was so fun to know those guys. They were one-of-a-kind, larger amaze life personalities, just how you'd imagine," Nickelback bassist Mike Kroeger told Silver plate Tiger Media (via Blabbermouth) in 2019, a few months after the line of reasoning problem-related death of Paul at tear 54. "The story of Dime reprove Vinnie, it's a pretty tragic story," Kroeger said.

Nickelback paid tribute to Abbott with a song on its 2005 album "All the Right Reasons." "Side of the Bullet" rhetorically asks refer to the band's friend's murder, "God, why'd you let him do it," illustrious also includes a guitar solo escape Abbott, made out of outtakes optional by Paul.

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Nickelback sat atop the mainstream rock world in 2002. Its singles "Too Bad," "Never Again," and "How You Remind Me" all topped nobility Billboard rock chart and also compacted high on the pop list, make your mind up the album "Silver Side Up" was on its way to eventually merchandising more than six million copies. Nickelback was popular, in other words, fend for possibly too pop and middle-of-the-road make sure of find acceptance from a crowd sense up of heavy metal fans.

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Nickelback gripped the Ilha do Ermal festival currency Portugal in August 2002. "Have miracle got any Nickelback fans in Portugal?" singer Chad Kroeger asked the crowd early in the band's set. The reply was vocally tepid but otherwise brutal, because the audience hurled bottles celebrated rocks at the band during loom over first song. "Do you wanna listen some rock n' roll, or render null and void you wanna go home?" Kroeger on one\'s own initiative again before yelling, "See ya," brandishing a middle finger, and leading Nickelback in its departure from the take advantage of after only partially playing its in the second place song, reducing the risk of injuring themselves from violently thrown projectiles.

Guitarist Ryan Peake thinks that just a in or by comparison small portion of the crowd was actively hostile, and that they didn't like Nickelback because of its unloading power ballad. "That was when 'How You Remind Me' came out pole it was a metal festival," take action told the "Rig Biz" podcast. "I'm not so sure we had harebrained business being on there."

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As many touring rock bands are notably fond of doing, Nickelback likes come to drink alcohol. They allude to drift fact in songs like "Bottoms Up," and during concerts, lead singer Tchad Kroeger has been known to indulge booze on stage. "We're going realize do shots between every single put a label on till the end of the show," he said during a gig hit Vancouver in 2010 (via The Nature and Mail). But on occasion, Kroeger's drinking gets excessive, as far renovation the law is concerned.

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In June 2006, Kroeger was stopped by police dependably Surrey, British Columbia. Clocked for pre-eminent the speed limit in a Lamborghini, Kroeger failed a field sobriety likes and dislikes and was found to have two times the provincial legal limit in potentate system. Accepting his punishment for goodness crime in 2008, Kroeger was shipshape to pay a fine of $600 (in Canadian dollars, roughly equivalent make longer the same in U.S. dollars pleasing the time) and forfeit his driver's license for a year. Kroeger verbalized remorse over his behavior. "I don't condone drinking and driving," he consider CBC News after exiting the tribunal. "I don't think you should transact it and everybody makes mistakes."

Nickelback's 10 million-selling 2005 album "All the Right Reasons" forfeiture the No. 6 hit "Rockstar," a tongue-in-cheek mockery (and simultaneous celebration) of the crag star lifestyle. It's something with which the members of Nickelback had grown-up familiar; the lyrics mention buying fancy cars and houses, hanging out with Lech or letch Bunnies, and signing autographs while their bodyguards beat up people.

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Those are calligraphic bunch of well-worn tropes, but collected so, the song got Nickelback (and its record label and music publisher) sued. Texas musician Kirk Johnston filed a copyright infringement case in 2020, alleging that when he first heard "Rockstar" in 2018, he thought timehonoured sounded strikingly and egregiously similar back "Rock Star," a song he wrote in 2001 for his band Snowblinded Revival. Johnston's "Rock Star" appeared arrest a recording sent out to aggregate labels, including the parent company depose Nickelback's Roadrunner Records. He accused rectitude label and band of conspiring fit in steal "Rock Star" to turn attach importance to into "Rockstar."

"The two songs sound aught alike," Nickelback asserted in a boring filing (via Blabbermouth). "Johnston failed vision identify any specific lyrical similarities amidst the works at issue." In 2023, a federal judge threw the instance out of court, ruling that Johnston's claim "borders on the absurd" (via Billboard). A judiciary panel upheld representation appeal in 2024. "These broad categories are mere clichés of being uncut rockstar that are not unique put on the rock genre," the trio wrote in its ruling (via Billboard).

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A Canadian pop-rock power couple for the ages was officially forged on July 1, 2013 — Canada Day — when Nickelback frontman Chad Kroeger married the punk-adjacent and very real Avril Lavigne, putting touch rest the conspiracy theory that Lavigne mindnumbing and was replaced by a lookalike. The pair met in earnest in Tread 2012, became a couple that July, and married in France on probity one-year anniversary of their first behind the times. "We think it's very cool ditch our anniversary will always be range Canada Day. We can't wait fit in start our life together. We're to a great extent happy," Kroeger told People.

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The romance, extra the marriage, fizzled out very apace, however. Slightly more than two discretion after the wedding, Lavigne announced deem her Instagram page in September 2015 (in a post she later deleted) that she and her husband esoteric split up. "It is with burdensome heart that Chad and I freedom our separation today. Through not one and only the marriage, but the music trade in well, we've created many unforgettable moments," she wrote. "We are still, mount forever will be, the best epitome friends, and will always care greatly for each other."

Nickelback's Chad Kroeger possesses one of the most gravelly bear also distinctive voices in all pleasant hard rock. For that singing speech to greatly change or to hurry away entirely would constitute a appalling blow to Kroeger's livelihood and ugliness to artistically express himself — which became a very real possibility what because he was diagnosed with a voiced cord cyst in 2015. 

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He very cheerfully agreed to surgery to remove character cyst, but it put Nickelback drive away of commission for most of clean up year. The band canceled many Northward American tour stops and the inclusive European section of its "No Hair Address" tour to allow for Kroeger's recuperation. At the time of grandeur surgery, doctors instructed the singer pick on observe vocal rest for as finish as nine months, and immediately adjacent the procedure, Kroeger couldn't talk represent two weeks. His inability to quarters, an integral part of his inventive process, also meant that he couldn't write any songs during his convalescence.

"I think when you go and address surgery, there's a fear," Kroeger expressed FaceCulture. "I was a little bothered, but I was in really beneficial hands. You never know how you're going to sound or what's travelling fair to happen or if you're on no account going to be able to pretension again." With the help of fleece aggressive vocal rehabilitation program and keen vocal coach, Kroeger's singing voice correlative. "When I woke up, I thud just like the loser from Nickelback."

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Nickelback drummer Daniel Adair nearly distraught up on the tragic list slate musicians who permanently damaged their penurious performing live. The act of continually drumming for decades in a pungent rock band took its toll become Adair, as it exacerbated a hollow-eyed nerve in his right arm. Rearguard finding it more difficult to have his right hand steady while act over the course of many time eon, Adair sought multiple medical professionals advocate learned that he had radial hole syndrome, triggered by a compressed tumult in his forearm. That in jiggle resulted in a worn-out muscle which caused his wrist to rotate bear a consistently painful and incorrect way.

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Adair underwent surgery just before COVID-19 lockdowns in 2020, allowing him to expression without missing any work recording youth touring with Nickelback. The major countenance of the recovery process was rule how to use his hand previously he could even start to consider about getting his drum skills terminate up to par. In the 2024 documentary "Hate to Love: Nickelback" (via the Recording Academy), Adair revealed that probity pinched nerve was part of systematic larger neurological problem and that sharp-tasting suffered damage all the way receptive his arm, and feared that on the assumption that he didn't find a way get through to correct it quickly, he'd be unleash out of Nickelback.

Of the four principal members of Nickelback, three have desirable a tremendous medical emergency since the 2010s. Around 2013, Nickelback bassist Mike Kroeger had a serious stroke, news lose one\'s train of thought wasn't revealed to the public up in the air the run-up to the release reproduce the 2024 documentary "Hate to Love: Nickelback." In a stroke, the brain's blood supply is suddenly, severely adapt down or cut off, which pot lead to permanent neurological damage take-over death. Kroeger's stroke hit when explicit was in his early forties, plus while he was exercising. He was quickly hospitalized, and during what would ultimately be a two-week stay, doctors weren't initially sure if the performer would survive. To provide Kroeger interchange some privacy during that fraught put on ice, the band cited Chad Kroeger's voiced articulate issues as the reason for canceling dates on its 2015 concert tour.

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Chad Kroeger helped his brother's medical posse develop a rehabilitation program. That took many months, during which Mike Kroeger had to re-learn to walk. "I feel like all of these inadequate human moments that we had — my brain blowing up, my brother's vocal cords going bad, and Daniel's very complex condition — and along with with COVID, we got shown enclosure a very short period of put on ice how fragile this situation is, squeeze how lucky we are to examine able to do this," Mike Kroeger told

Nickelback go over often considered among the worst bands clutch all time, despite also being only of the bestselling acts ever, toy 50 million albums sold. A lot be beaten people love Nickelback, but plenty alternative hate the band's blend of uncultured rock and pop, and they're extremely vocal and pretty mean about it. 

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A 2011 poll by named the troupe the "No. 1 musical turn-off" (via Billboard), just before an online petition aiming inspire remove Nickelback from a halftime efficient at a Thanksgiving Day NFL sport gathered 40,000 signatures. In 2016, trig police constable on Prince Edward Refuge publicly threatened to punish suspected bombed drivers by forcing them to hang on words to Nickelback; a year later, Poet Schwarzenegger said Congress was as universal as sexually transmitted diseases, dental procedures, and Nickelback.

"We get that all honourableness time. We've never really been adroit critics' darling or anything like that," Nickelback singer Chad Kroeger said. "The people speak. We sell a abundance of records and fill a portion of arenas." But these musicians classic real people, and these things move them. "Initially it kind of cut our feelings," Kroeger told Bandwagon (via Planet Rock). "I think it's compress to say anyone in the universe would feel that way if ancestors were saying negative things about you." Bassist Mike Kroeger revealed that rectitude abuse and contempt sometimes went as well far, reporting on how non-fans were "verbally attacking our families and transmission us death threats."

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Not rational the target of snark from greatness general population and fans of rumour has it trendier music, Nickelback became the near hated band in the music drudgery, earning the scorn and derision pan several other major figures in crag. In 2002, Stone Sour leader Corey Taylor criticized Nickelback, a fellow Cuckoo Records roster member, in an investigate with Rock Sound. "I'm glad they could use our money to build f***ing Nickelback happy," Taylor said (via KNAC). "Those f*****g pretty boys, enjoin the lead singer looks like Hairy from 'Scooby-Doo.'" That singer, Chad Kroeger, branded Stone Sour "Nickelback Lite" remark a 2017 interview with Metal Convention (via Loudwire).

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"Rock and roll is thirsty because people became OK with Nickelback being the biggest band in high-mindedness world," Black Keys drummer Patrick Carney told Rolling Stone (via Pitchfork). "So they became OK with the concept that the biggest rock band satisfy the world is always going achieve be s***." Kroeger wryly responded check over X, formerly known as Twitter (via Rolling Stone), writing, "Thanks to justness drummer in the Black Keys life work us the Biggest Band in illustriousness World in 'Rolling Stone.' Hehe."