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 Choi Jong Hoon?

Choi Jong Hoon is a retired South Korean musician and actor as well, who is perhaps best known to the world as the guitarist and keyboardist of the rock band F.T. Island. He was the frontman of the band from its inception until his retirement in 2019. As an actor, he starred in the TV series “Heroes” (2015), among other accomplishments.

Choi Jong Hoon Bio- Age, Childhood, and Education

Choi Jong-hoon was born on the 7th March 1990, in Seoul, South Korea; he went to Shindongshin Middle Information Industry High School, where he started expressing his musical aspirations, and joined the FNC Music talent agency – F.T. Island was formed with members from this talent agency.

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Following his high school matriculation, Choi enrolled at the University of Suwon, where he majored in digital music.

Career Beginnings

F.T. Island was formed in 2007, with Oh Won-bin, Choi Jong-hoon, Lee Hong-gi, and Lee Jae-jin as the main members. Two years later Oh Won-bin left the group and was replaced by Song Seung-hyun, who would also leave the band later. The group’s debut release was the South Korean album “Cheerful Sensibility” in 2007, which spawned such hits as “Lovesick” and “Thunder”, both of which topped the Korean charts.

The band continued to gain popularity in South Korea with the album “Colorful Sensibility”, before they made their Japanese debut with “So Long, Au Revoir”.

Peak of Popularity

From 2009 until his retirement, Choi and all the band members enjoyed star status, becoming one of the most popular bands in South Korea and Japan as well. They stormed the music scene of Japan with the hit albums “Five Treasure Island” (2011), which was their first Japanese album to top the chart, and continued with such releases as “Rated-FT” (2013), “5…..Go” (2015), then “N.W.U” (2016), and “Everlasting” (2019).

They also were at the top in South Korea, with albums “Five Treasure Box” (2012), “I Will” (2015), and “Where’s the Truth” (2016), which made Choi a star. The entire discography of the band includes 18 studio albums, eight EPs, and 17 soundtrack albums.

Acting Career

In addition to music, Choi Jong-hoon is also known as a television personality and actor. His first on-screen appearance was in the show “On Air” in 2008, then made a few appearances in reality shows, including in “Cheongdam-dong 111”, while his first role was in 2015 as Park Shi-hyun in the drama series “Prince’s Prince”.

Later that year he portrayed Choi Hee-yeol in the TV series “Heroes”, while in 2017 he was Min Su-ho in the drama series “Unexpected Heroes”.

Choi Jong-hoo The Untold Truth

Choi Jong-hoo is currently in prison, serving a five-year sentence; in March 2019, he was a part of the sex scandal known as Burning Sun Scandal. It was revealed that Choi was a part of the Jung Joon-young KakaoTalk chatrooms, with the group of people involved in the whole scandal sharing sexually explicit videos of women who were filmed without their knowledge. Other celebrity members were Lee Jong Hyuun and Jung Joon-young.

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He continued with illegal actions, filming other women without their consent, and spreading that material. Furthermore, a woman came forward to TV station SBS funE with a statement that she was raped by Choi and four other men in March 2016 while she was intoxicated, and also that the video of the incident was also shared in a group chat. Of course, Choi denied all the accusations, however, he said that he and the particular women were together on that very day. All of this resulted in a trial, and on the 29th November 2019 Choi was sentenced to five years in prison. Once the whole scandal broke out, Choi’s agent announced that he would be leaving F.T. Island, and retiring completely from the entertainment world.

Choi Jong-hoon Net Worth, Height, Weight, and Appearance

Choi had become a star thanks to the successful musical career, but his illegal actions have cost him his popularity and career on the whole. As a result, his wealth has declined since his imprisonment, and according to sources, it is estimated at around $1 million, as of mid-2020.

Choi Jong-hoon stands at 5ft 10ins (1.78m) tall, while he weighs approximately 134lbs (61kgs). His vital statistics are unknown, but he has a slim figure. He has brown hair and brown eyes.

Choi Jong-hoon Personal Life, Dating, Girlfriend, Single?

Unfortunately, other than Choi’s controversies, there aren’t more details about his personal life.

For the better part of his life he has been focused on his career, and according to reports, at the time he was arrested Choi was a single man, focused on his career rather than dating, but only he knows the truth as he has rarely spoken about his personal aspirations. However, according to some sources, back in 2017 he was in a relationship with the rhythmic gymnast Son Yeon Jae, but the romance lasted only for a couple of months.

Choi Jong-hoon News, Facts, Influence

Choi and his lawyer appealed against the sentence, and it has been reduced to two and a half years.

In addition to his original fine of five years, he is also ordered to participate for 80 hours in a program for the treatment of sexual violence, and is also barred for three years from being employed in institutions that deal with children and youth, and also welfare facilities for the disabled.

Before taking a guitar in his hands, Choi had been taking piano lessons since he was in the 6th grade. His musical idols are Eric Clapton, then the band Muse, among others, while he mostly enjoys acid jazz music. In addition to F.T. Island, he was a member of the spin-off group F.T. Triple, formed in 2009.

Choi Jong-hoon is a social media star and has around 600,000 followers on his official Instagram page.

Aimee Rachel Osbourne is an actress and a musician who is more famous for her music, and for being the daughter of Ozzy Osbourne and Sharon Osbourne.

Early Life and Childhood

Aimee Osbourne was born on 2 September 1983, in London, England, to parents Ozzy Osbourne and Sharon Osbourne. She grew up with two siblings – Jack Osbourne who was born on 8 November 1985 and Kelly Osbourne who was born on 27 October 1984. She also has three step-siblings that her father sired with his ex-wife Thelma Riley, Elliot Kingsley, Jessica Osbourne and Louis Osborne. Her maternal grandfather Don Arden is also a popular name in the music industry, whose real name was Harry Levy and was a music manager. Aimee and her family had unresolved differences and that’s why she left home when she was just 16.

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Education

Where Aimee attended high school is not evident to us at the moment, however, she apparently quit studies when she left home.

Career

Films

Aimee started her career as young as eight years old when she appeared as a child in some documentaries related to her father’s career. She also appeared in 1998 in “The Howard Stern Show”. In 2002, she voiced the audiobook “Officially Osbourne: Opening the Doors to the Land of Oz”. She gained mainstream success as an actor in 2003, when she was selected in MTV’s adaptation of “Wuthering Heights” in which where she played alongside Katherine Heigl, Erika Christensen and Mike Vogel. In 2014, she worked as a voice actor for “Postman Pat: The Movie” and voiced the character of Amy Wrigglesworth.

Music

She took up the pseudonym ARO which are her initials and started recording music and releasing it as well. Her musical style has been characterized as synth-pop, which is a drastic contrast to her father’s musical style that is described as heavy metal. In 2015, she released her debut music video entitled “Raining Gold”. The single was a massive success and gained 2.5 million views on YouTube in just two months. She described her music as ‘The rest of the album is still very much kind of cinematic, haunting, and atmospheric feel. Some of the songs are a little heavier; some of the songs are bit more sweet (sic), but still kind of spooky in a way.’ She has performed in three live shows – Union Pool and Mercury Lounge both in New York in April 2015, and The Echo in Los Angeles on 9 February 2016.

She has expressed her nervousness in performing before an audience, and has learned to calm herself down saying ‘I’ve learned to kind of accept that [if being nervous before a show is] what’s going on inside of me, to just ignore it a little bit.’ She released two more videos in 2016, entitled “I Can Change” and “Cocaine Style”.

She then took a break, until in October 2018 announcing on her Instagram handle that she was currently working on an EP, and thanked her fans for all the patience. On 5 December she released a teaser of her new EP, with a snippet of her song entitled “Beats of My Heart”. On 13 February 2020, Aimee posted an update on her EP’s status saying ‘Thank you all so much for your interest. Not long to go now’. She updated her fans on the debut album’s progress, saying that it would now be released under the indie record label “Makerecords”.

The MTV Reality Show “The Osbournes”

Aimee refused to film for the reality show “The Osbournes”, since she is a private person and thought that by appearing on the show the audience would typecast her, affecting her musical career. Her siblings Jack and Kelly earned fans from their appearance on the show. Sharon Osbourne talked to CBS morning talk show called “The Talk” saying ‘Aimee didn’t want to grow up on camera. She hated the idea, it was appalling to her. And so she left at 16 and I regret every day that she did.’

Aimee talked through NYLON magazine about her decision not to be part of “The Osbournes”, saying ‘It was just not my aspiration. Everywhere you went people wanted to know everything, and that when you’re growing up that can be kind of intimidating. The idea of kind of letting it all out there at that point, at around fifteen… Nobody at fifteen wants anybody to see how goofy their parents are.’

Aimee Osbourne

Even though Aimee hated the thought of being under the spotlight when she was younger, she eventually grew up to become a household name in the entertainment business, with her acting and singing career. Born John Michael Osbourne on 3 December 1948, he is a singer, songwriter, television personality and actor. He rose to fame as the lead vocalist of the band Black Sabbath, and nicknamed himself the ‘Prince of Darkness’ during the time. He was let go from the band due to problems with alcohol and drugs in 1979, however, kept working on his music and had a successful solo music career. He released 12 albums during his musical tenure, and seven of them were awarded multi-platinum certifications.

He reunited with Black Sabbath in 1979 and recorded the album “13”.

He has earned himself an informal title due to his successful music career as the “Godfather of Heavy Metal”. Ozzy became a television star through the MTV reality show “The Osbournes”, in which he starred along with his wife Sharon who is also his manager, and his two children Kelly and Jack. He is currently still involved with the TV industry by starring in the series “Ozzy & Jack’s World Detour” along with Kelly and Jack.

Awards

He earned his first Grammy in 1994 for the song “I don’t want to change the world” for Best Metal Performance. In 2004, he was rewarded with Godlike Genius at the NME awards. The UK Music Hall of Fame inducted him in the year 2005 for a solo artist, as well as the lead vocalist of Black Sabbath. The Rock ‘n’ Roll Hall of Fame inducted him in 2006. He was honored at the VH1 Rock Honors in 2007, and a bronze star honoring him was placed on Broad Street in Birmingham, England the same year.

He was given the Living Legend award in the Classic Rock ‘n’ Roll Of Honour Awards, and in 2010 the “Literary Achievement” award for his memoir “I am Ozzy” at the Guys Choice Awards. In 2015, the British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors bestowed the Ivor Novello Award for Lifetime Achievement.

Personal life

Ozzy first met his wife Thelma Riley at a nightclub called the Rum Runner. They married in the year 1971 and sired Jessica and Louis; Ozzy also adopted Thelma’s son Elliot. However, he has been heard referring to his first marriage as being a ‘terrible mistake’.  In the documentary “God Bless Ozzy Osbourne”, Ozzy admitted to not even remembering when his two kids were born.

On 4 July 1982, he married his second wife Sharon Arden who was working as his manager at the time. Together they gave birth to three children.

Aimee’s Hobbies, Favorite Things and Interesting Facts

• She has been heavily influenced by Portishead and Kate Bush.
• She also loves Massive Attack and PJ Harvey.
• Aimee and Kelly were neighbors in the year 2014 after Kelly bought a home right next to her for $2 million. However, they both sold their homes after a year.
• Aimee is not close to her siblings and said ‘I wouldn’t say there is an ease between us, but there is an acceptance. Do we socialize? No.’
• She was recently seen shopping with her mother Sharon, suggesting to the media that the rocky relationship between her and her parents is finally smoothed out.
• Her Instagram account is cryptic and doesn’t feature any pictures of herself.

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Her nature is mysterious, to say the least, and she said ‘There was definitely a time where I really didn’t want to be in the public eye, or have people know who I was and then they knew what my last name was, and you know, I’ve battled with that a little bit.

Net Worth

Aimee’s net worth has been estimated at over $5 million as of early 2020. Her father Ozzy Osbourne, on the other hand, has a  reputed net worth of over $220 million, accumulated from his years of musical success, and his television career.