Morgan Rose
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| Background information | |
| Birth name | Morgan Jay Rose |
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December 13, 1968 Atlanta, Georgia, United States |
| Genres | Alternative metal, heavy metal, rap metal, nu metal |
| Occupation(s) | Musician, songwriter, producer |
| Instruments | Drums, percussion, vocals, guitar |
| Years active | 1988–present |
| Labels | Warner Bros., 7 Bros. |
| Associated acts | Sevendust, Iron Steel, Methods of Mayhem, Call Me No One, Korn, Le Projet |
| Website | alienfreakwear |
Morgan Jay Rose (born December 13, 1968) is an American drummer, record producer and founding member of the Atlanta-based alternative metal band Sevendust. He is also responsible for much of the background unclean vocals. He has also played drums for Call Me No One and Methods of Mayhem. Rose is vice president of Imagen Records.
Rose lived in New Jersey until the age of 7 before him and his family moved back to Atlanta, GA. Rose's father was a guitarist and his mother, who followed the Raspberries in the 1970s, took her young son to see David Bowie's Ziggy Stardust tour, which he witnessed while sitting on the shoulders of a security guard. He credits his father with teaching him guitar and claimed that he was able to play Jimi Hendrix’s "If 6 Was 9" when he was three years old. Rose attended high school in St. Petersburg, FL, where he played in many garage bands, after which he went to the Musicians' Institute of Los Angeles.
Rose began his music career in the early 1990s in the band Snake Nation, alongside Vinnie Hornsby. In late 1992, Rose and Hornsby joined forces with Lajon Witherspoon, who was at that time in a R&B band called Body & Soul, and formed Rumblefish, which was changed Crawlspace then to Sevendust after a name rights issue. Morgan Rose is one of the most respected and most innovative drummers in the industry, being voted by Drum magazine and Drummerworld as one of the top 100 drummers of all time. He is also one of the most charismatic members of the band, and often writes lyrics and is the backup vocalist when playing live. Australia's Rolling Stone voted him as the "hottest drummer" in history, thanks to a poll that was taken in 2003. In 2004, Morgan Rose voted no. 1 metal drummer by Modern Drummer magazine. He also is ranked no.32 in Hit Parader's top 100 bassist and drummers all time.
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