Alice Cooper (born Vincent Furnier, February 4, 1948) rose to fame in the 1970s with a mix of hard rock and horror theater. With his frenzied image and stage act, this bizarre entertainer almost single-handedly invented the "shock rock" genre. It earned him many famous successors (
Marilyn Manson,
Rob Zombie). In the late 1970s, Cooper was a celebrity and appeared in a number of feature films. He
… continued to act and sing into the 21st century, which only cemented his status as a musical icon.more
