Corey Taylor, born on December 8th, 1973 in Des Moines Iowa, also known by his stage names of, ‘The Boogie Knight’ and ‘The Grim Chopper’ is a forty-year-old American musician, actor and writer who is known mostly for being the lead vocalist as well as the lyricist of the bands Slipknot, formed in 1997 and Stone Sour, started in 1992 to 1997where they had a four year hiatus to start back up again in 2001. He has been part of two record labels as well as his first book, which was released in 2007 with five more to follow soon after.
Corey Taylor has collaborated with other bands, including Korn, Disturbed, Junk Beer Kidnap Band, Anthrax, Apocalyptica, and Soulfly. Having been ranked position 86 in Hit Paraders Top 100 Metal Vocalist of All Time. Nominated for Revolver Golden Gods Awards for the best vocalist in 2010 and won the award in 2013. In 2015 he won the Loudwire Music Awards, Rock Titan award and also honored by NME as the 7th greatest heavy metal singer with a record on having the second widest vocal range in contemporary music. Aside from that Corey has also done a handful of movies, the popular ones being ‘Fear Clinic ‘and ‘Bullied’.
His first appearance on the movie screen was in 1999 in ‘Welcome to Our Neighborhood In 2001 and 2002he was seen in ‘We Sold Our Souls for Rock 'n Roll’ and ‘. Then from 2006 to 2011, was part of ‘Voliminal: Inside the Nine’, ‘Get Thrashed’, ‘Audible Visions of (sic)nesses’ and ‘Goat’. In 2013, he joined ‘Fear Clinic’. He was featured in the horror flick ‘Bullied’. After as well as his appearance in, ‘Before the Flood’ of the TV series ‘Doctor Who’. The year after, he did ‘QI - Nosey Noisy’ and ‘Officer Downe’.’
Professionally trained by the Opera singer Melissa Cross, creator of the acclaimed, “The Zen of Screaming”, has helped him to avoid much of the damage dealt to a singers voice in order to prolong his career along with many others such as Slayer, Lamb Of God, Arch Enemy, Cradle Of Filth, Machine Head, Slipknot, Exodus, Suicide Silence, Trivium.
He has tasted quite a bit of professional success so far but his personal life though has been a bit ironical from that perspective with a divorce and a second marriage already at the age of forty. He started dating actress Scarlett Stone in 1998 who is now famous for acting in the role of Anna Meyers in the 2008 hit movie Corporate Affairs. Scarlett Stone was reportedly the support system and emotional anchor of Corey Taylor given his public announcement that he was an alcoholic and even faced alcohol abuse that led him into severe depression. Their relation commenced as general friendship before they eventually fell in love, or so they felt. Their chemistry seemed to attract quite a bit of attention, mostly due to their largely secret relationship that came into public view much later, due to the lack of any sources.
He got married to Scarlett in 2004, after six years of the reported affair which also yielded a son named Griffin Parker Taylor who was born on 17th September 2002. Corey was stated as saying back then that the birth of a child was a much-needed relief in his grief-stricken life and that his marriage was the ray of hope that kept him alive. He even confessed to having tried to commit suicide from a building when Scarlett saved him. They had been dating for a long time but he felt the need and importance of his wife when he was pushed into depression by alcohol.
Birth Date: | 8 Dec, 1973 |
Age: | 46 yrs |
Citizenship: | United States of America |
Birth Place: | Des Moines |
Gender: | Male |
Description: | American heavy metal singer |
Twitter Id: | CoreyTaylorRock |
Net Worth 2021: | 10 million |