This American man missed a lot of school so that he could practice music.\u00a0 Both his parents were US Marines.\u00a0 His cousin, Tony, owned the famous New York recording studio, the Power Station, where he made a few demos after he left school. When he was 16 he was playing clubs and joined up with David Bryan who played with him in a ten-piece rhythm and blues band called Atlantic City Expressway.\u00a0 He also performed with bands like The Rest, The Lechers and Wild Ones.\u00a0 He is an actor as well as a singer and now heads up his own band.\u00a0 His nickname is Captain Kidd and his mother was one of the first Playboy bunnies.\u00a0 He once said \u201cSuccess is falling nine times and getting up ten.\u201d\u00a0 The man has won seven awards, is a record producer, has four children and two brothers, has acted in 15 films, wrote the music for Young Guns and has a string of hits to his name.<\/p>\n
I\u2019m talking about Jon Bon Jovi.<\/b><\/p>\n
He was born John Francis Bongiovi Jr. on 2nd<\/sup>\u00a0March 1962, in Perth Amboy, New Jersey to John Francis Bongiovi and Carol Sharkey.\u00a0 His father was of Slovak and Italian descent (from Sciacca in Sicily) and his mother was of German and Russian descent.\u00a0 He said that he is a blood relative of singer Frank Sinatra.\u00a0 Jon Bon Jovi was raised Catholic.\u00a0 His grandfather was a mortician; he owned Bongiovi funeral home in Raritan, New Jersey.<\/p>\n Jon Bon Jovi knew in his early teens that he wanted to be a rock star. \u00a0\u00a0In 1979, when he left school at 17, he worked in Tony Bongiovi\u2019s recording studio sweeping floors.\u00a0 In 1980, when Meco was there recording\u00a0Christmas in the Stars: The Star Wars Christmas Album<\/i>, Tony recommended him for the song “R2-D2 We Wish You a Merry Christmas<\/i>.” This was his first professional recording.<\/p>\n In 1982, at the age of 20, he recorded his first single,\u00a0Runaway<\/i>, at The Power Station.\u00a0 After he was turned down by many record companies, he was lucky to get the radio station WAPP 103.5FM “The Apple” in New York to play his song.\u00a0 This got him noticed and then he realised that he would have to form a proper band and not just have session players.\u00a0 At this point, he was still known as John Bongiovi.<\/p>\n\n\n
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