Jack Russell is an American

United States

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 rock

Rock music

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 vocalist. He is a founding member of the American hard rock band Great White.

Biography

Russell grew up with influences such as Robert Plant

Robert Plant

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 and Steven Tyler

Steven Tyler

Steven Tyler is an American singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist, best known as the frontman and lead singer of the Boston-based rock band Aerosmith, in which he also plays the harmonica, and occasional piano and percussion. He is known as the "Demon of Screamin'", due to his high screams...

, and became a vocalist for many bands

Band (music)

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 in high school

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 and later on. He met Mark Kendall

Mark Kendall (guitarist)

Mark Kendall is a lead guitarist born in Loma Linda, California. He is best known for being a founding member and lead guitar player of the blues-based hard rock band Great White.-Biography:...

 in a concert

Concert

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 and began plans to form a band called Dante Fox. Russell and Kendall decided to change their name of the band to Great White because their favorite pastime is shark fishing. Russell has been in the band from 1981 to the present day, except for taking three years off from 1996 to 1999 to record

Sound recording and reproduction

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 and release a solo

Solo (music)

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 album

Album

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, entitled Shelter Me. He also released a second solo

Solo (music)

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 album

Album

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 album entitled For You in 2002. According to Great White's website, Russell's ancestry is English, Irish and Native American.

As of 2010, Jack has been on hiatus from Great White, due to a perforated bowel.