Steven Tyler

Steven Tyler ( born March 26, 1948 in Yonkers, New York as Stephen Victor Tallarico ) is the lead singer of the rock band Aerosmith and the father of actress Liv Tyler.

Family and children

Tyler's paternal origin is Italian and German, maternal partly Polish and English. His grandfather came from the Ukraine.

From an affair with model Bebe Buell 's daughter Liv Tyler emerged that is successful as an actress today. To maintain the drug problems Tylers caused Buell to protect the daughter initially that the musician Todd Rundgren was her father. At the age of eight years, Liv Tyler, learned on a Aerosmith concert but who her real father.

1978 Tyler married the former Warhol Model Cyrinda Foxe. From the marriage, the model Mia Tyler emerged. The marriage ended in divorce in 1987. Cyrinda Foxe died in 2002 of a brain tumor.

In 1988 he married in Tulsa Oklahoma fashion designer Teresa Barrick, with whom he has two children. The couple was divorced in 2006.

Health

In 1981, Tyler had a motorcycle accident in which he incurred a open heel fracture. In 2006, he was known to have been cured after three years of disease progression of hepatitis C. The power transmitted through infected blood liver inflammation had to be cured by interferon therapy. Now he wants to raise awareness of hepatitis in public.

Music

As a teenager he started to play drums and harmonica. Before he founded in the early 1970s Aerosmith with Joe Perry, he was a drummer in five different bands. Steven Tyler and Joe Perry were dubbed because of their excessive drug use soon Toxic Twins.

He continues to be broad grin and that he hangs during his performances scarves to his microphone stand, known. In the early days of Aerosmith he also had a bottle of Jack Daniel's on the stage - a habit he has, but now abandoned.

In 2003 he sang with AC / DC one of their songs ( You Shook Me All Night Long) in the Rock ' n' Roll Hall Of Fame. In 2004 he sang The Star Spangled Banner at the opening game of the World Series, 2005, the single Just Feel Better on the album All That I Am by Carlos Santana. After a long pause, he was with the band Aerosmith on tour again in 2007. On November 10, 2009, it was reported that Tyler will get out of the band. This denied Tyler's on the following day at a concert by Joe Perry.

Movie and TV

Because of its popularity, you could see Steven Tyler soon also in minor roles in several movies. In most cases, playing himself, such as in Wayne 's World 2, or in Be Cool with John Travolta. In addition, he was also seen in an episode of The Simpsons as a cartoon character and in several episodes of Two and a Half Men. In Lizzie McGuire he played in a sequence to Santa Claus. He was a member of the jury of American Idol in the tenth and eleventh season. On July 12, 2012, he announced to abstain from participating in the twelfth season.

Awards

In 2003 he received from the Berklee College of Music in Boston an honorary degree, the 2005 honorary doctorate from the University of Massachusetts Boston followed.