Biography
Phil Anselmo conquered the hearts of millions of metal fans, being a frontman of the legendary Pantera team. His powerful vocals, full of rage and inner pain, became a sample of quality for several generations of singers in the Tresh Metal genre.Childhood and youth
Biography Philip Hansen Anselmo began in New Orleans, he was born on June 30, 1968. His family contained a small restaurant. Parents soon divorced, and the son was brought up by a single mother.
The family lived in a disadvantaged area where representatives of different races were mixed: French, Sicilians, dark-skinned. The boy was sexually harassment from many men and women. Nanny Anselmo was a transgender woman named Wilma.
The child studied in many schools Louisiana and Texas, the latter was the secondary school Grace King in the suburb of Metairi.
Phil was not an evil or rude child, but loved to joke. At the age of 14, he arranged a fire in the parent house, trying to play sister. Most of the furniture suffered from the fire, and the housing itself was then repaired.
Salvation from reality a teenager was looking for music. He grew up on the songs The Beatles and Jimmy Hendrix, who loved his mother, but he preferred hevi-metal. Even at School Phil joined the Samhain group, and from the beginning to mid-1980s, he was a member of the Razor White team. Basically guys played trowes on the Judas Priest.
According to the singer, in his youth he could be in prison or die, but the music saved him.
Personal life
The singer could not yet improve his personal life due to a dense touring chart, problems with prohibited substances and internal conflicts. On October 31, 2001, his wife became Stephanie Opal Weinstein. The spouse supported all his undertakings and even performed with the chosen one in the acoustic duet Southern Isolation.Marriage collapsed in 2004, but Anselmo quickly found consolation in the arms of Kate Richardson. This relationship continues now. Girl helps an artist to manage his own label. Housecore Records. There are no children from the pair.
Music
In 1987, the singer joined the Texas team Pantera, which the vocalist of Terry Glez left. At that time, the team played an unassuming Glam Rock, but the arrival of Anselmo changed everything. His vocals struck the group members so that they immediately invited Phila in Texas to create an album Power Metal. Already ready-made gleza parties erased and overwriting tracks with a novice voice.
Anselmo convinced other participants to radically change music and appearance. Glamorous hairstyles found themselves in the past, only Daimimbeg Darrell remained with long hair. The musicians were growing beard, and the frontman shaved his head and made tattoos. Subsequently, many young rockers imitated the image of Anselmo, but he was the first.
1990 Album Cowboys from Hell struck the listeners with new texan sound, powerful guitlery and phenomenal guitar parties. Pantera called the hoping of "heavy" music.
Embed from getty imagesIn 1991, the team had the opportunity to perform at the Monsters of Rock Festival, which was held in Moscow. The musicians were in front of an audience of 500 thousand people along with Metallica and AC / DC.
Album 1992 Vulgar Display of Power, according to many fans, eclipsed by the "black album" Metallica and made Pantera the greatest metal group in the world. Far Beyond Driven in 1994 led the Billboard Chart, which was an amazing achievement for extreme music.
In the mid-90s, Anselmo filtered injury. To cope with pain, the frontman drank, took painkillers and muscle relaxants, and eventually moved to heavy drugs.
On July 13, 1996, he had a stop stop from heroin overdose after the show in Dallas. A musician miraculously survived, but problems led to tense relations in the team. During the recording of The Great Southern Trendkill, Anselmo did not even want to join the rest of the participants. The group sent the lyrics in New Orleans, where the musician put the vocal parties, and guitars, bass and drum were recorded separately in Texas.
When Pantera broke up in 2001, Winnie Paul accused of this Phil, who was answered in the same vein. The press was heated conflict, provoking both sides. This led to Anselmo's statement that "Daimimbeg Darrell deserves cruel beatings."
These words were printed in the British magazine Metal Hammer in December 2004, and a few days later, the guitarist was killed right during the concert. Relatives of Daimimbega asked Anselmo not at the funeral, accusing him in the "murderer incitement."
In 2006, the singer created the DOWN project. The music team combined the Black Metal of Venom and Tresh Slayer.
In October 2016, the vocalist showed a Nazi greeting from the stage and cried out the slogan of the racist movement of WHITE POWER. The act was convicted by Scott Ian and Corey Taylor. On October 30, the frontman released video with apologies, explaining his behavior by exposure to alcohol.
Phil Anselmo now
In March 2019, the singer's concerts with the group The Illegals in New Zealand were canceled after the murder of 50 Muslims in a pair of the mosques of the city of Krayster. The artist was recalled the leaving of the 2016th.In 2020, DOWN tour was interrupted due to a coronavirus infection epidemic. The only source of communication with fans remains an account in "Instagram", where photos, videos and news are still published.
Discography
With Pantera group:
- 1988 - Power Metal
- 1990 - Cowboys from Hell
- 1992 - Vulgar Display of Power
- 1994 - Far Beyond Driven
- 1996 - THE GREAT SOUTHERN TRENDKILL
- 2000 - REINVENTING THE STEEL
With the DOWN group:
- 1995 - Nola.
- 2002 - DOWN II: A Bustle in Your Hedgereow
- 2007 - DOWN III: OVER THE UNDER
With Superjoint Group:
- 2002 - Use Once and Destroy
- 2003 - A Lethal Dose of American Hatred
- 2016 - CAUGHT UP IN THE GEARS OF APPLICATION