Who is M Shadows?

Matthew Charles Sanders was born on 31 July 1981, in Fountain Valley, California, USA. He is a singer, musician, and songwriter, best known for performing under the stage name M Shadows, working as the lead vocalist of the band Avenged Sevenfold. He is one of the heavy metal band’s founding members, and is considered by many as one of the greatest heavy metal frontmen of all-time.

The Net Worth of M Shadows

As of early-2020, M Shadows’ net worth is estimated to be over $25 million, earned primarily through the success of the band, Avenged Sevenfold, one of the most recognized in the heavy metal genre, making music since the 2000s.

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He’s also worked with other bands, as well as collaborating with the video game franchise “Call of Duty”.

Early Life and Career Beginnings

While M was born in Fountain Valley, his family later moved to Huntington Beach where he grew up with younger sister Amy Sanders, who is now known to play in the Women’s National Basketball Association (WNBA).  He developed an interest in music at a young age, thanks to his father who gifted him his first cassette of the band Guns N’ Roses, sparking an interest which just grew as he got older.

Eventually, he learned how to play the guitar as well as the piano, skills which would also help him learn more about tone and voice. He attended Huntington Beach High School, and during this period, he aspired to start a band. He briefly joined a punk band called Successful Failure, but it was short-lived. Afterwards he reconnected with a few friends from middle school who had the same taste in music. This led to the formation of Avenged Sevenfold, as he was joined by The Rev, Zacky Vengeance, and Matt Wendt.

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Shadows didn’t want to use his first name as he didn’t like the way it sounded as a performer. Instead, he only adopted the first letter M and added Shadows because he felt that he was the darker character within their group. They also chose to adopt nicknames because it was a popular practice among rock groups that inspired them. Over the years, the band has released music, and gained a lot of acclaim for their diversity when it comes to their portrayal of rock and metal.

They also promoted themselves through the use of dramatic imagery, which became more evident over the years.

Their debut album “Sounding the Seventh Trumpet” helped establish them on the scene, but it wasn’t until their third album “City of Evil” that the band truly took off. The group enjoyed a lot of success until 2009, when their drummer The Rev suddenly passed away. The band continued with drummer Mike Portnoy for their 2010 album “Nightmare” which reached the top of the Billboard 200. Eventually, they took in drummer Brooks Wackerman and continued to release music, with their latest being “The Stage” which debuted in fourth spot of the Billboard 200.

Solo Projects

Apart from his work with Avenged Sevenfold, M has been a guest on albums of other well-known bands. He was featured on the album “Feel the Steel” by Steel Panther, and helped produce the album “Requiem” by The Confession – he ventured to learn more about production to help Avenged Sevenfold with their album releases as well. Other music projects he’s had include working with Slash on his solo album, and making music with the band Device.

In 2012, he made his first foray into the video game world with the development of ‘Call of Duty: Black Ops II”, in which he made a cameo contribution by doing motion capture and recording voice lines.

He is an avid player of the popular first-person shooter game, and has even participated in professional tournaments. One of his latest projects in video games is “Call of Duty: Black Ops 4” in which he became a playable character thanks to the help of a close friend who works for its developer Treyarch. He can be selected as a part of the game’s battle royale mode, which sees numerous players fight against each other in a large but shrinking map.

Vocal Ability and Style

Shadows’ vocal ability has been praised numerous times, not only for his range and versatility but also its evolution throughout his career with Avenged Sevenfold.

At the beginning of his career, he had a harsher voice filled with growls reminiscent of metalcore bands. Since 2003 he’s been more inclined towards melodic lines, but still retains his love for screams and growls. After signing with a major record label, his style changed even further, focusing more on his voice and melody as opposed to the screaming. He took numerous lessons to improve his style, working with Ron Anderson who is known for his collaborations with Audioslave and Guns N’ Roses.

The band also contributed, with each member becoming a part of the vocal whole as opposed to Shadows taking the brunt of the work.

This led to rumors going around that he had lost his ability to scream, as a result of having throat surgery after damaging his voice sometime in 2003. Other musicians defended him, stating that he has indicated a desire to be more of a singer than a screamer with his music. He is also a big advocate in protecting his voice, and prefers hitting the notes rather than going for raspy sounds that could damage his throat again.

Personal Life

M married Valary DiBenedetto in 2009 and they have two children together. His bandmate Synyster Gates married Valary’s twin sister Michelle which makes the two band members brothers-in-law as well. He spends a lot of his free time, learning more about music, working on new music, and playing video games. He also spends a lot of his time learning more about preserving his voice and prioritizes resting his voice when not working with the band.

Who is Coco Quinn?

Coco Quinn was born in Los Angeles, California USA on 7 June 2008 – her zodiac sign is Gemini and she holds American nationality. She is a dancer, singer, actress and a social media star, who might best be known for winning the Petite Diamond Line category of the Showbiz Talent Competition held in Riverside in California.

Childhood and education

Coco was raised alongside her two sisters, Kaylee and Rihanna and brother Tyler, by their father who is a businessman, and their mother who is working at a local law firm.

Coco was only two years old when her mother enrolled her into a rhythmic gymnastics course, and she soon became interested in dancing, after watching her older sisters perform.

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Coco has danced at various school events, and has entered numerous competitions organized in California. After gaining recognition for her dancing skills, she became active on the internet, opening accounts on some of the most popular social media networks – Coco should be enrolling at a high school in 2022, and so far doesn’t seem to be interested in working on her education and obtaining a college degree.

Sisters and family

Coco’s sister Rihanna Quinn was born in Los Angeles on 24 December 2006 – her zodiac sign is Capricorn and she holds American nationality.

She is a dancer and a social media star, perhaps best known for her Instagram account which is currently followed by over 110,000 people, and on which Rihanna is mostly uploading pictures taken during her everyday life.

The eldest sister, Kaylee Quinn, was born in Los Angeles on 18 July 2004, her zodiac sign is Cancer and she holds American nationality. Kaylee began practicing dancing at Dance Precisions at a very early age, and she now is also an actress who has appeared as Young Kirsten in the science fiction crime series “Stitchers”, which was nominated for four awards during its airing from 2015 to 2017.

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Career as a social media star

Coco is very active on Instagram, and is today followed by over 1.5 million people, while she’s uploaded more than 900 pictures, mostly taken during her everyday life, as well as those taken during her modelling photoshoots. Coco’s Twitter account is followed by nearly 19,000 people, while she’s gathered close to 50,000 followers on her Facebook account. Coco seems to be paying extra attention to her TikTok account, which is currently followed by over 1.6 million people, and counts over 37 million likes of all her videos and pictures combined – she is mostly focused on uploading lip-syncing videos.

Coco is also active on YouTube – her parents launched her channel on 31 March 2010 when she was only one and a half years old.

Today, the channel is subscribed to by over 1.2 million people, and counts close to 150 million views of all her videos combined – her currently most popular video “5 year old Kaylee doing Classical Ballet dance (Russian Ballet trained) Level ½” has been viewed over 17.7 million times since 14 May 2010.

Career as an actress

Coco made her debut TV series appearance in 2016, when she was cast to portray a supporting character in the series “Stitchers” alongside her sister Kaylee, and in 2018 she portrayed The Dancer in the episode “Nathaniel is Irrelevant” of the comedy musical series “Crazy Ex-Girlfriend”.

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Coco gained recognition when she was invited to star as Katie in the comedy series “Mani”, which also stars Hayley LeBlanc, Lawrence Wayne Curry and Julian Clark, and is about a nanny who is raising Mani and teaching her and her friends about roasting and performing a ‘perfect dude handshake’ – the series has been airing since 2017 and has won two awards, while it’s been nominated for two others. In 2019, Coco made her debut film appearance, playing Mindy in the short comedy “Sitting in the 80’s” directed by Jennifer Dominguez, written by Dana Angelo, and which starred Mimi Bannon, Kristen Hancher and Riley Lewis.

Coco’s most recent role has been in early 2020, when she played Katie in seven episodes of the family comedy series “Chicken Girls”, which has been airing since 2017 and stars Annie LeBlanc, Brooke Elizabeth Butler and Indiana Massara – the story follows the teenager Rhyme and her friends who have been dancing since they were two. The series has been nominated for five awards.

Coco has appeared in around eight talk shows and documentaries since 2016, when she was invited to appear in the episode “The Maddie Rumor” of the reality series “Dance Moms”. She went on to appear in the talk show “TinaQ’s Celebrity Interviews”, the documentary series “Teens Wanna Know”, and the short music video “Senorita – Gavin Magnus Cover Ft. Coco Quinn”. They year 2019 saw her appear in the episode “The Mad Dog Challenge” of the short family series “The Halo Project”, the music video “Beautiful People – Gavin Magnus Cover Ft. Coco Quinn”, and another music video “Mistletoe – Gavin Magnus Cover Ft. Coco Quinn”.

Her most recent appearance has been in the 2020 episodes “Prep” and “Casting” of the documentary mini-series “Chicken Girls: The Docuseries”.

Coco is currently working on her singing career too, and in July 2020 released her debut song “What I Love About Me”.

Love life and boyfriend

Even though most people believe Coco to be too young to date, it is known that she was in a relationship with Gavin Magnus from early 2020 to mid-July. The two announced their relationship on their social media networks, and could’ve been seen spending time together on various occasions before announcing their split on the internet – several people have claimed to have seen Coco and Gavin spending time together even after their break-up, and many believe that the two might still be dating. As of October 2020, at 12 years of age Coco is certainly still single.

Gavin was born in the USA on 26 March 2007, his zodiac sign is Aries and he holds American nationality. He was raised alongside his brothers Jakob and Justin, and is perhaps best known for his debut single “Crushin” which came out in 2019, as well as for his YouTube channel which counts close to 3.4 million subscribers.

Hobbies and other interests

Coco is a huge lover of animals, and she and her family have four cats called Gold, Poppy, Bertha and Bubba, as well as a dog called Toby.

She is still into toys and has collected many, which can be seen featured in some of her Instagram pictures.

Summer is Coco’s favorite season as she and her friends like to take pictures at the beach, play beach soccer and swim in the ocean.

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She spends most of her free time outdoors walking with her friends, and prefers to be in nature such as parks, rather than in the overcrowded streets of Los Angeles.

In her spare time and mostly late at night, she likes to watch movies starring some of her favorite actors and actresses Johnny Depp, Emma Watson and Natalie Portman, such as the franchises “The Pirates of the Caribbean” and “Harry Potter”, and the action crime film “Leon: The Professional”.

Age, height and net worth

Coco is 12 years old. She has long blonde hair and brown eyes, her height is 4ft 8ins (1.42m) and she weighs around 88lbs (40kgs).

As of October 2020, her net worth has been estimated at over $400,000.

Who is Mizuho Lin, the lead singer of the band Semblant?

Mizuho Lin was born in Foz do Iguacu, Parana, Brazil, on 26 May 1990 – her zodiac sign is Gemini, she holds Brazilian nationality, and is half-Brazilian half-Polish. She is a metal singer, perhaps best known for being a member of the metal band Semblant.

Early life and education

Mizuho was raised an only child in Brazil by her father who is a truck driver, and her mother who is working at a pharmacy.

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She became interested in singing while attending seventh grade, and her parents enrolled her at a school for the performing arts at which she practiced singing, dancing and acting.

Mizuho was a very active teenager, as she spent most of her free time outdoors playing sports with friends, such as soccer and tennis, and they also sang songs and wrote lyrics together. Upon matriculation in 2008, she took two years off before enrolling at a college from which she graduated in 2013 with a Bachelor’s degree in opera singing.

Career as a singer and the band Semblant

The band Semblant was founded in 2006 by Sergio Mazul, J. Augusto, Sol Perez, Juliano Ribeiro and Thor Sikora – Mizuho joined in 2010. Their debut extended play (EP) came out in 2008 entitled “Behold the Real Semblant”, and in 2010 their debut single and its music video entitled “Sleepless” was released.

In the second half of 2010, their debut full-length album came out entitled “Last Night of Mortality”, and a year later the band released their second EP, “Behind the Mask”.

After around three years without new material, Semblant’s second full-length album came out entitled “Lunar Manifesto”, then in 2015 they released two new digital singles and their music videos, entitled “What Lies Ahead” and “Dark of the Day”, followed in 2017 by a new digital single entitled “Incinerate”. Most recently in 2020, Semblant released the full-length album “Obscura”, followed by their latest digital single and its music video – “Mere Shadow”.

A total of 14 people have been members of Semblant and have left the band since 2006. Mario J. B. Gugisch was the band’s first bassist, and he left after a year while Marcio Lucca was their first drummer, and he left after only several months.

The new drummer Alison ‘Djesus’ de Gaivos quit in 2008 after two years, and another drummer – Rhandu Lopez – quit after a year. Semblant changed four guitarists since 2006, two of whom were Roberto Hendrigo and Everson Choma. Katia Shakath served as the lead vocalist from 2006 to 2010, when Mizuho joined the band.

Mizuho is also a solo singer, and sang at the 15th Anniversary of Dead Heart In A Dead World tour, organized by the famous musician Warrel Dane. She also joined the Moonspell band from Portugal while they were on their tour Road to Extinction.

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For a short period of time, Mizuho sang with the Swedish band Evergrey, including the Portuguese intro of their album “Hymns For The Broken”. For the band Ankhy, she sang their single “All Men Must Die”, and also served as the soprano for the band Lords of Aesir.

Love life and relationships

Mizuho is very secretive when it comes to her love life, but has of 30 August 2019 uploaded a picture onto her Instagram account featuring her and her boyfriend, with its caption explaining that the two have been together for around nine years.

Mizuho hasn’t disclosed the man’s name or profession, but it’s certain that he’s not a celebrity, while it appears that the two haven’t married but have been living together for over six years now. Sometime in 2016, Mizuho gave birth to their daughter Ikki, and around a year later to their son Shun.

Mizuho was previously in a long-term relationship with her high school sweetheart which lasted for two years before they split, for unknown reasons. As of August 2020, she is in a relationship, hasn’t married and has two children.

Hobbies and other interests

Mizuho’s main hobbies are watching reality TV shows, with some of her favorites being “Dexter”, “The Walking Dead” and “Game of Thrones”, reading romantic and science fiction books such as “Harry Potter” and “The Lord of the Rings”, and playing the piano. She likes to listen to various music genres such as metal, rock and pop, and some of her favorite bands are Epica, After Forever and Nightwish – her favorite solo performers are Tarja Turunen, Floor Jansen and Amanda Somerville.

She is keen on tasting various cuisines, with her two favorites being Italian and Chinese, while her favorite foods are pizza and spaghetti.

In her spare time, she likes to watch movies, and her favorite actor and actress are Johnny Depp and Nicole Kidman, while some of her favorite movies are the franchise “Pirates of the Caribbean”, “Edward Scissorhands” and “Eyes Wide Shut”.

Age and height

Mizuho is 30 years old. She has long brown hair which she dyes blue and her eyes are brown. Her height is 5ft 7ins (1.7m), she weighs around 132lbs (60kgs), and her vital statistics are 33-24-34.

As of August 2020, her net worth has been estimated at over $100,000.