Profile via TMDB · Courtesy of TMDB
OverviewAI-generated
Bret Michaels is an American singer, singer-songwriter, composer, and guitarist. Born Michael Bret Sychak on March 15, 1963, in Butler, Pennsylvania, he is a male baritone who speaks and writes in English. His musical career began in 1983, and he is a member of the rock band Poison.
Michaels performs in the genres of rock music, glam metal, and country music. He plays the guitar and uses his voice as an instrument. He is also known for his medical condition, type-1 diabetes. His work has been associated with tags such as hard rock, hair metal, and 80s music.
Synthesized by Vinony from 30 facts across 5 sources: Wikidata, MusicBrainz, Last.fm, TMDb, Firecrawl. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.
Film & TV
Butler, Pennsylvania, USA
Bret Michael Sychak (born March 15, 1963), known professionally as Bret Michaels, is an American singer and musician. He is the frontman of rock band Poison which has sold over 65 million albums worldwide and 30 million records in the United States. The band has also charted 10 singles to the Top 40 of the Billboard Hot 100, including six Top 10 singles and a number-one single, "Every Rose Has…
Known for
- Nöthin' But a Good Time: The Uncensored Story of '80s Hair Metal — Self2024
- Guy's Ultimate Game Night2022
- For Real: The Story of Reality TV — Self2021
- Impractical Jokers: Dinner Party — Self2020
- The Masked Singer — Banana2019
- The Masked Singer — Self2019
- The Masked Singer — Self - Video Message / Banana (archive footage)2019
- The Masked Singer — Self - Performer2019
- The Masked Singer — Self - Video Message2019
- Sharknado 5: Global Swarming — Bret Michaels2017
via TMDB
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Country
- United States
- Active from
- 1963
Discography
Member of
via MusicBrainz · CC0
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 52,711
- Total plays
- 367,116
Tags
Bret Michaels (born on March 15, 1963) is the lead singer of the popular 80's glam metal band Poison. Over the last few years, he's released solo material and toured smaller venues alone. On his personal projects, he has a much more country/blues tone than his work with Poison. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Bret+Michaels">Read more on Last.fm</a>
Key facts
- Born
- Bret Michael Sychak , ( 1963-03-15 ) March 15, 1963 (age 63) , Butler, Pennsylvania , U.S.
- Genres
- Hard rock glam metal country rock blues rock
- Occupations
- Singer musician songwriter actor
- Instruments
- Vocals guitar
- Years active
- 1983–present
- Labels
- Capitol Cyanide Music Inc. VH1 Classic
- Member of
- Poison
- Website
- bretmichaels .com
via Wikipedia infobox
Official website
Bret Michaels Official Web Site – For Everything Bret Michaels
bretmichaels.com →Link to the official site · 25,614 chars · not written by Vinony
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Michael
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Butler
- Occupation
- actor
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Native language
- English language
- Genre
- country music
- Instrument
- voice
- Official website
- www.bretmichaels.com
- Image
- Bret Michaels 2019 (cropped).jpg
- Voice type
- baritone
Show 9 more facts
- date of birth
- 1963-03-15
- member of
- Poison
- medical condition
- type-1 diabetes
- Commons category
- Bret Michaels
- start of work period
- 1983-00-00
- birth name
- Bret Michael Sychak
- pseudonym
- Bret Michaels
- social media followers
- 326777
- writing language
- English language
Sources (3)
via Wikidata · CC0
~22 min read
Encyclopedic overview
Bret Michael Sychak (born March 15, 1963), known professionally as Bret Michaels, is an American rock musician. He is the frontman of Poison, which has sold over 65 million albums worldwide and 30 million records in the United States. The band has also charted 10 singles to the Top 40 of the Billboard Hot 100, including six Top 10 singles and a number-one single, "Every Rose Has Its Thorn".
Besides his career as frontman, he has several solo albums to his credit, including the soundtrack album to the 1998 film A Letter from Death Row in which Michaels starred, wrote and directed, and a rock album, Songs of Life, in 2003. Michaels has appeared in several films and TV shows, including as a judge on the talent show Nashville Star which led to his country influenced rock album Freedom of Sound in 2005. He starred in the hit VH1 reality show Rock of Love with Bret Michaels and its sequels, which inspired his successful solo album Rock My World. He was also the winning contestant on NBC's reality show Celebrity Apprentice 3 and also featured in his own reality docuseries Bret Michaels: Life as I Know It, which inspired his highest-charting album as a solo artist, Custom Built, reaching No. 1 on Billboard's Hard Rock chart. He is also known for hosting Rock My RV with Bret Michaels on the Travel Channel. In 2006, Hit Parader ranked Michaels at No. 40 on their list of greatest heavy metal singers of all time.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Bret Michaels” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.