Billy Corgan Bio (Biography)
Real name:
William Patrick Corgan
Date of birth:
March 17. 1967
Place of birth:
Elk Grove, Chicago, Illinois, USA
Astrology Sign:
Pisces
Height:
6' 3" (1.91 m)
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An alternative rock fanatic, songwriter, vocalist and a lead guitarist, William Patrick Billy Corgan Jr was born on March 17, 1967 in Elk Grove Village, Illinois. His high profiled musician in the bank Smashing Pumpkins became the 1990s biggest band and was actually identified after the Corgan's complicated vocals and solo performance as a guitarist.
His father William Corgan Sr and mother Martha Louise Maes Corgan Lutz stayed in Glendale Heights, Illinois. It is where Corgan spent his childhood with the care of his grandparents because his parents divorced and remarried. Corgan's half brother Jesse is physically disabled and another brother who was a painter named Ricky.
Corgans's childhood years were not much of good ones as he allegedly states he was a subject to his stepmother's physical abuses, in addition to the emotional abuses. Unfortunately, Corgan's mother Martha Lutz was committed for a brief period of time in a mental institution due to mental illness.
With his childhood experience, Corgan began to love music when he tried playing a guitar at a friend's house. The young 15 year-old Corgan asked his father to buy him a guitar and he gave him his entire savings. While his father is a jazz musician himself, Corgan claims that he was a self-taught guitarist similar to Kurt Cobain. He also mentioned during his interviews that his father refused to teach or mentor him because he actually never believed on his son's dedication towards music.
After his self-teaching experience, Corgan discovered the kind of alternative rock suited for the young people like himself. He began playing with a band in 1983 and stayed with the same band for nine months.
In October 5, 1988, Corgan's new band called Smashing Pumpkins hit the music industry with their new sounds and his prominent solo guitar performances. At the peak of the band's success, they were succumb to the influence of heroin addiction leaving Melvoin overdosed then later fired Chamberlin. The latter was reunited with the original bank in 2000.
As a musician, Corgan was highly adored for his solo guitar performances and Rolling Stone magazine considered him to be one of the finest rock artists of the century.
His father William Corgan Sr and mother Martha Louise Maes Corgan Lutz stayed in Glendale Heights, Illinois. It is where Corgan spent his childhood with the care of his grandparents because his parents divorced and remarried. Corgan's half brother Jesse is physically disabled and another brother who was a painter named Ricky.
Corgans's childhood years were not much of good ones as he allegedly states he was a subject to his stepmother's physical abuses, in addition to the emotional abuses. Unfortunately, Corgan's mother Martha Lutz was committed for a brief period of time in a mental institution due to mental illness.
With his childhood experience, Corgan began to love music when he tried playing a guitar at a friend's house. The young 15 year-old Corgan asked his father to buy him a guitar and he gave him his entire savings. While his father is a jazz musician himself, Corgan claims that he was a self-taught guitarist similar to Kurt Cobain. He also mentioned during his interviews that his father refused to teach or mentor him because he actually never believed on his son's dedication towards music.
After his self-teaching experience, Corgan discovered the kind of alternative rock suited for the young people like himself. He began playing with a band in 1983 and stayed with the same band for nine months.
In October 5, 1988, Corgan's new band called Smashing Pumpkins hit the music industry with their new sounds and his prominent solo guitar performances. At the peak of the band's success, they were succumb to the influence of heroin addiction leaving Melvoin overdosed then later fired Chamberlin. The latter was reunited with the original bank in 2000.
As a musician, Corgan was highly adored for his solo guitar performances and Rolling Stone magazine considered him to be one of the finest rock artists of the century.