![]() would sometimes get Rollins on stage to sing with him. Word of Rollins' ability spread around the punk rock scene in Washington D.C. When the band's singer Nathan Strejcek failed to appear for practice sessions, Rollins convinced the Teen Idles to let him sing. This guy is pissed off, those guitars are rude.' What a revelation! įrom 1979 to 1980, Rollins was working as a roadie for D.C. I remember hearing that and thinking 'Well, that's something. "Then one of us, probably Ian, got the Sex Pistols record. "We wanted something that just kicked ass," he says. Initially into bands like Van Halen and Ted Nugent, Rollins soon developed an interest in punk rock with his friend Ian MacKaye. In 1987, he said that he had not seen his father since the age of 18, and, in 2019, wrote, "What my father thinks of me, or if he is still alive, I have no idea." Music career State of Alert He began working minimum-wage jobs, including a job as a courier for kidney samples at the National Institutes of Health. After high school, he attended American University in Washington for one semester, but dropped out in December 1979. According to Rollins, the school helped him to develop a sense of discipline and a strong work ethic. Rollins attended The Bullis School, then an all-male preparatory school in Potomac, Maryland. In fourth grade, he was diagnosed with hyperactivity and took Ritalin for several years to focus during school. As a child and teenager, Rollins was sexually assaulted, and he suffered from depression and low self-esteem. ![]() When Rollins was three years old, his parents divorced and he was raised by his mother in the Washington neighborhood of Glover Park. from Rēzekne, Latvia (then part of the Russian Empire) and changed his first name to Henry. Rollins' paternal great-grandfather, Henach Luban, fled to the U.S. His mother is of Irish descent, and his father was from a Jewish family. Rollins was born Henry Lawrence Garfield in Washington, D.C., on February 13, 1961, the only child of Iris and Paul Garfield. He currently hosts a weekly radio show on KCRW, is a regular columnist for Rolling Stone Australia, and was a regular columnist for LA Weekly. He has campaigned for various political causes in the United States, including the promotion of LGBT rights, World Hunger Relief, the West Memphis Three, and an end to all war. Weston, in the final 2 seasons of the animated series The Legend of Korra as Zaheer, and has also had roles in several films. He had recurring dramatic roles in the second season of Sons of Anarchy as A.J. Rollins has hosted numerous radio shows, such as Harmony in My Head on Indie 103, and television shows such as The Henry Rollins Show and 120 Minutes. Following the band's breakup, he established the record label and publishing company 2.13.61 to release his spoken word albums, and formed the Rollins Band, which toured with a number of lineups from 1987 to 2003 and in 2006. Henry Lawrence Garfield (born February 13, 1961), known professionally as Henry Rollins, is an American singer, writer, spoken word artist, actor, and presenter After performing in the short-lived hardcore punk band State of Alert in 1980, Rollins fronted the California hardcore band Black Flag from 1981 to 1986.
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