In 2013, Taylor Hawkins, an American musician and drummer, started the rock cover band Chevy Metal. Find out about Hawkins’s family and wife.
Before he joined Chevy Metal, the late musician was the drummer for the American rock band Foo Fighters. People like the band because they made great songs like “Best of You,” “Aurora,” “Learning to Fly,” and many more.
When the Foo Fighters took a break in 2013, Hawkins formed the rock cover band Chevy Metal. Hawkins and guitarist Mick Murphy both confirmed in March 2014 that a new side band called The Birds of Satan existed. It also has Wiley Hodgden, who plays bass guitar and sings and was in Chevy Metal with Wiley Hawkins.
Who is Taylor Hawkins’s wife? He started the band Chevy Metal
Taylor Hawkins started the band Chevy Metal in 2013. In 2005, he married his wife, Alison Hawkins. After she got married to the musician, she got to know the celebrity life a lot better.
The couple had three children and lived in Topanga Canyon before moving to Hidden Hills, California. But her husband’s wife was rarely in the news, and she kept their kids off the grid.
Alison Hawkins was born in the United States of America into a stable Christian family. But the exact information about when she was born could not be found. Alison was probably born between 1975 and 1980, and she is now between 45 and 50 years old.
She is an entrepreneur and businesswoman, according to some reports. She also draws pictures for a living. Alison Hawkins, who was married to musician Taylor Hawkins, thanks his fans for their support after his sudden death on March 25, 2022, at age 50. Taylor Hawkins played drums for Foo Fighters and started the band Chevy Metal.
“Your kindness has been a great help to me and my family during this terrible time of loss.” Alison told his fans what was going on.
5 Interesting Facts About the Musician
Oliver Taylor Hawkins was born on February 17, 1972, in Fort Worth, Texas, U.S. He is a drummer for the band Chevy Metal. But he grew up in Laguna Beach, California, and spent the rest of his childhood there. Hawkins was raised by his parents along with his older brother and a sister.
Celebrity Net Worth says that by the end of his life, Taylor Hawkins had made a whopping $40 million. Alison Hawkins, who is now his wife, now owns all of that money and property.
Taylor Hawkins became the drummer for the rock band Foo Fighters in 1997. Before that, he had helped Alannis Morrisette promote her critically acclaimed album Jagged Little Pill.
Hawkins was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2021. He was an important part of the Foo Fighters. Also, the British drumming magazine Rhythm named him the “Best Rock Drummer” in 2005.
Hawkins and his wife, Alison Hawkins, have been together since their wedding in 2005. He will die in 2022. They have three kids: Oliver, Annabelle, and Everleigh. The Hawkins family lives in the Hidden Hills mansion, which Taylor bought for $2.7 million in 2012. It is a 7,000-square-foot house.
Early years
Oliver Taylor Hawkins was born on February 17, 1972, in Fort Worth, Texas.
Hawkins grew up in Laguna Beach, California, where his family moved in 1976.
Hawkins was the youngest of three children. His older siblings, Jason and Heather, were both boys. He graduated from Laguna Beach High School in 1990. There, he knew Jon Davison, who is now the lead singer for the band Yes.
Career
Hawkins was in the Orange County band Sylvia before he joined Sass Jordan as the drummer.
Hawkins was Alanis Morissette’s drummer on the tour for Jagged Little Pill and her Can’t Not tour, which ran from June 1995 to March 1997. He was in the videos for “All I Really Want,” “You Learn,” and “You Oughta Know.” He was also on the VHS/DVD Jagged Little Pill, Live, by Morissette (1997).
Foo Fighters are a rock band.
In 2018, Hawkins sang during a Foo Fighters show.
After going on tour in the spring of 1996, Foo Fighters went to Seattle to record their second album with producer Gil Norton. Dave Grohl and drummer William Goldsmith reportedly got into a fight while they were recording, which led Goldsmith to leave the band. The band got back together in Los Angeles and re-recorded almost the whole album with Grohl on drums. The Color and the Shape, the album, came out on May 20, 1997. Grohl called Hawkins, who he knew at the time, and asked him who he thought the band should hire as a new drummer. Grohl thought Hawkins wouldn’t leave Morissette’s touring band because she was a bigger act than Foo Fighters at the time. Grohl was surprised, though, when Hawkins offered to join the band himself. He said he wanted to be a drummer in a rock band, not for a solo act. On March 18, 1997, the band said that Hawkins would be its new drummer. Hawkins first appeared with the Foo Fighters in the music video for the 1997 single “Monkey Wrench,” even though the song was recorded before he joined the band.
Hawkins did more than just play drums with the Foo Fighters. He also sang, played guitar, and played piano on different recordings. He sang the lead on a cover of “Have a Cigar” by Pink Floyd. The song was released in two different ways: as the B-side to the song “Learn to Fly” and on the Mission: Impossible 2 soundtrack album. Later, he sang lead vocals on “Cold Day in the Sun” from In Your Honor, which was later released as a single, as well as a cover of Cream’s “I Feel Free,” which was the B-side of “DOA” and on the EP Five Songs and a Cover. Hawkins was also the lead singer for the band’s version of “Life of Illusion” by Joe Walsh. Later, he sang lead vocals for “Sunday Rain,” a song on the Foo Fighters’ album Concrete and Gold from 2017 that was released in 2017. During live Foo Fighters shows, he sang lead vocals on some songs, like a cover of Queen’s “Somebody to Love” at his last show with the band. He also helped write songs for the band, and every album since There Is Nothing Left to Lose lists him as a co-writer.
Hawkins’s last show with the Foo Fighters was at the Lollapalooza festival in Argentina on March 20, 2022. This was the day before he died.
On April 3, 2022, Hawkins’s band, the Foo Fighters, won three Grammys after he had died.
Hawkins played in Austin, Texas, with the Foo Fighters in 2011
In 2006, Hawkins’ side project, Taylor Hawkins and the Coattail Riders, put out a record called “Taylor Hawkins and the Coattail Riders.” Taylor Hawkins and the Coattail Riders have since put out two more studio albums: Get the Money in 2019 and Red Light Fever in 2010. He sometimes played with a band that played Police songs. The name of the band changed between “The Cops” and “Fallout.” Hawkins was in SOS Allstars with Roger Taylor of Queen and Chad Smith of the Red Hot Chili Peppers at Live Earth in 2007.
Hawkins recorded the drum tracks for the Coheed and Cambria album Good Apollo, I’m Burning Star IV, Volume Two: No World for Tomorrow because the band’s regular drummer, Chris Pennie, could not because of a contract. Hawkins also went on a short tour with Coheed and Cambria during the time the album was out. Hawkins also played drums on Help Wanted, Eric Avery’s (formerly of Jane’s Addiction) first solo album, and on Wicked in Rock, Kerry Ellis’s album. Hawkins and Grohl both played drums on Harmony & Dissidence, the third album by Jackson United, a side project by Foo Fighters member Chris Shiflett.
Hawkins played drums on “Cyborg,” a song from Queen guitarist Brian May’s 1998 solo album, Another World. He also played drums when Queen played “We Will Rock You” at VH1’s Rock Honors in 2006. He sang background vocals on “C-lebrity,” a song by Queen and Paul Rodgers.
Hawkins was asked by the Beach Boys’ drummer Dennis Wilson to write and sing new lyrics for an unfinished recording of his song “Holy Man.” The recording also had parts from Brian May and Roger Taylor of Queen. In 2019, it was released as a single for Record Store Day.
In 2013, Hawkins started a rock cover band called Chevy Metal while the Foo Fighters were on break.
Hawkins in 2012
Hawkins sang backup vocals on Ozzy Osbourne’s “Crucify the Dead,” which was on Slash’s solo album Slash, which came out in 2010.
In 2013, he played Iggy Pop in the rock movie CBGB, which was his first role. “L’uomo più semplice,” the last song by Vasco Rossi, has drums that were played by Hawkins. This song came out in Italy on January 21, 2013.
Hawkins told people about his new side project, The Birds of Satan, in March 2014. Wiley Hodgden, who plays bass guitar and sings and is Hawkins’ drum tech in the band Chevy Metal, and Mick Murphy, who also plays guitar in Chevy Metal, are both on the album. The band’s self-titled debut album came out in April 2014. The Foo Fighters played on some of the cover songs at the album release party at Rock n Roll Pizza.
Hawkins told Radio X in an interview that his first idea for his solo projects was to work with female singers on a duet.
Hawkins asked other big names, like LeAnn Rimes, to sing on the Taylor Hawkins and the Coattail Riders album Get the Money. Rimes sang on one of his songs called “C U in Hell,” which was written by Hawkins. Loudwire named the album one of the 50 best rock albums of 2019. Roger Taylor, Brian May, Dave Grohl, Nancy Wilson, Joe Walsh, Chrissie Hynde, and many more artists also played on his projects.
Hawkins played drums on the song “E-Ticket,” which was on Elton John’s album The Lockdown Sessions, which came out in October 2021.
Hawkins, Dave Navarro, and Chris Chaney from Jane’s Addiction got together in 2021 to form a supergroup called NHC.
Hawkins said that the band was “somewhere between Rush and the Faces.” They played their first live show at Eddie Vedder’s Ohana festival in September 2021, where Taylor’s Foo Fighters bandmate Pat Smear also played guitar. In 2021, the band made an album that will come out in 2022.
Hawkins played himself in the comedy horror movie Studio 666, which came out on February 25, 2022. He was in the movie with the other Foo Fighters members.