How Old Is Iggy Pop? Iggy Pop Birthday
Iggy Pop was born on April 21, 1947 and is 77 years old now.
Birthday: April 21, 1947
How Old - Age: 77
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Is Iggy Pop's father, James Newell Osterberg Sr., dead or alive?
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Iggy Pop - Biography
James Newell Osterberg, Jr., better known by the stage name Iggy Pop, is an American singer-songwriter, musician and actor. He is the vocalist of influential proto-punk band The Stooges, who reunited in 2003, and has been known for his outrageous and unpredictable stage antics. Iggy Pop's music has encompassed a number of styles over the course of his career, including garage rock, punk rock, hard rock, art rock, new wave, jazz, blues, and electronic. Though his popularity has fluctuated through the years, many of Iggy Pop's songs have become well-known, including "Search and Destroy" and "I Wanna Be Your Dog" by the Stooges, and his solo hits "Lust for Life", "The Passenger", and "Real Wild Child (Wild One)".
James Newell Osterberg, Jr. was born in Muskegon, Michigan, the son of Louella (née Christensen; 1917–1996) and James Newell Osterberg, Sr. (1921–2007), a former high school English teacher and baseball coach at Fordson High School in Dearborn, Michigan. Osterberg was raised in a trailer park in Ypsilanti, Michigan. He is of German, English and Irish descent on his father's side, and Norwegian and Danish ancestry on his mother's side. His father was adopted by Swedish Jewish spinsters who fled the Holocaust and took on their surname (Österberg).
Iggy Pop lives near the Atlantic coast, south of Miami, Florida. He has been married three times: to Wendy Weissberg (for several weeks in 1968, the marriage was annulled shortly thereafter), to Suchi Asano (1984–1999), and most recently, to his longtime partner Nina Alu. He has a son, Eric Benson, born in 1970 to Paulette Benson.
In the 1990s, Iggy Pop developed a friendship with Johnny Depp, Jim Jarmusch, and tattoo artist Jonathan Shaw. According to Shaw, the four wore matching rings depicting a skull, and all but Iggy Pop received a similar skull-and-crossbones tattoo.
