John Corabi

Born in Philadelphia in 1959, John Corabi built a career rooted in American hard rock, spanning melodic heavy, glam metal and blues rock. He started out on the club circuit with Angora and later followed the band to Los Angeles. He gained wider recognition around the turn of the 1990s as the frontman of The Scream, formed with former members of Racer X; they released Let It Scream in 1991. In 1992 Corabi replaced Vince Neil as singer of Mötley Crüe and contributed to the self-titled album Mötley Crüe (1994), on which the band adopted a heavier, rougher sound. After leaving, he founded Union with Bruce Kulick, pursuing a more classic hard rock approach (Union, 1998; The Blue Room, 2000). He went on to play with several other groups — notably as rhythm guitarist with Ratt in the 2000s — before serving as vocalist for The Dead Daisies from 2015 to 2019, during which Revolución (2015), Make Some Noise (2016) and Burn It Down (2018) were released. Alongside his band work he has also released solo material, at times acoustic, exemplified by Unplugged (2012).