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Alice Cooper

Alice Cooper - born Vincent Damon Furnier (February 4, 1948, Detroit) is an American rock singer and songwriter. Cooper was one of the first shock rockers, radically expanding the boundaries of perceptions of a rock artist's stage capabilities through his innovative activity. The first Alice Cooper lineup broke into rock in 1971 with the hit I'm Eighteen, which in 1972 was followed by the single School’s Out, which reached the top positions in the charts, and the hit album Billion Dollar Babies (1973), which marked the peak of the band's commercial popularity. Starting with Detroit garage rock and glam rock, Alice experimented with various musical styles: conceptual rock, art rock, hard rock, pop rock, experimental rock, industrial, and took direct part in forming the sound and image of heavy metal. Cooper became one of the first musicians to add elements of horror to rock and roll, and he also made a noticeable influence on the development of the genre through his acting skill and innovative stage discoveries. Alice Cooper's solo career, which began in 1975 with the conceptual album Welcome to My Nightmare, successfully continues to this day. In addition to his musical activity, Cooper is known as an actor, a golf player, a restaurant owner, and, starting in 2004, the host of his own radio show, "Nights with Alice Cooper."