Nikki Sixx

Nikki Sixx (birth name Frank Carlton Serafino Ferranna) is the bassist for metal bands Mötley Crüe, London and Brides of Destruction.

Early Life

Sixx was born December 11, 1958 in San Jose, California. He was raised by his single mother,Deana Haight,and her abusive boyfriend, after his father abandoned the family. When he was six, he and his mother moved to (where he tried pot for the first time)for a short time, after which they moved to Idaho with his grandparents. The family moved several more times, to Texas, then to New Mexico, back to Texas and then to Idaho.

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December 11 - 1958 - San Jose - California

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While living in Idaho, Sixx became a teenage vandal, breaking into neighbors homes, shoplifting and being expelled from school for selling drugs. His grandparents sent him to live with his mother, who had moved to Seattle. He lived there for a short time, and learned how to play the bass guitar after buying his first instrument with money made from selling a guitar he stole from a music store. At the age of 17, he moved to Los Angeles on his own; he got a job at a liquor store and played in a band with Blackie Lawless of W.A.S.P.

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Seattle - Bass guitar - W.A.S.P

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