Doogie White
| Doogie White | |
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Doogie with Tank at Sweden Rock Festival, 2009.
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| Background information | |
| Born |
7 March 1960 Motherwell, North Lanarkshire, Scotland |
| Genres | Hard rock, heavy metal, power metal, neo-classical metal |
| Instruments | Vocals |
| Years active | 1984–present |
| Associated acts |
La Paz Midnight Blue Rainbow Cornerstone Yngwie Malmsteen's Rising Force Praying Mantis Rata Blanca Tank Demon’s Eye Michael Schenker's Temple of Rock Stardust Reverie Project |
| Website | www.doogiewhite.com |
Douglas "Doogie" White (born 7 March 1960) is a Scottish rock vocalist, who has sung for La Paz, Midnight Blue, Rainbow, Cornerstone, Yngwie Malmsteen's Rising Force, Praying Mantis and Rata Blanca. He is currently the vocalist for the Michael Schenker's Temple of Rock, his original band La Paz and Demon's Eye.
White was born in Motherwell. He formed La Paz with guitarist Chic McSherry in 1984, playing around Scotland for four years and releasing two albums on cassette, before in 1988 joining melodic rock combo Midnight Blue, cutting one album (released on Zero Records exclusively in Japan).
A trip to Japan in 1991 singing with Praying Mantis in a NWOBHM revival tour followed.
After a demo tape forwarded to Ritchie Blackmore's management a few years earlier sat in a box for a few years, Candice Night discovered it and presented it to Blackmore when he was looking for singers to audition for Rainbow. Consequently, White was asked to audition for Rainbow, subsequently joining the band in 1994. He had also auditioned for metal bands Pink Cream 69 and Iron Maiden, losing out to Wolfsbane's Blaze Bayley.
To indicate how quickly his fortunes had changed in the year since meeting Blackmore, when Rainbow played the Labbatt's Apollo in Hammersmith, London in November 1995, he joked with the audience that the last time he was at the venue only a few years before, he was selling hotdogs in the lobby.
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