Jack White

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"I also believe personally you let the music tell you what to do. You don't tell the music what to do."
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	<li>Born Jack White on July 9, 1975, in Detroit, Michigan 
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	<li>Jack White's duo the White Stripes entered the mainstream with their 2003 album, Elephant, which hit No. 6 on the Billboard 200 and earned a nomination for Album Of The Year. The album spawned the Billboard Hot 100-charting single "Seven Nation Army," which ranked No. 286 on Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Songs of All Time list. 
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	<li>White earned his first two career GRAMMYs with the White Stripes for Best Alternative Music Album (Elephant) and Best Rock Song ("Seven Nation Army"). He won his first award as a producer for 2004 for producing&nbsp;<a href="/grammys/artists/loretta-lynn">Loretta Lynn</a>'s Best Country Album-winning Van Lear Rose. 
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	<li>White made his solo performance debut on the <a href="/grammys/awards/55th-annual-grammy-awards">55th GRAMMY Awards</a> in 2013 with "Love Interruption" and "Freedom At 21," nine years after White Stripes performed "Seven Nation Army" at the <a href="/grammys/awards/46th-annual-grammy-awards">46th GRAMMY Awards</a>. 
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	<li>In 2017 White was honored with the President's Merit Award at the Recording Academy's Producers &amp; Engineers Wing's 10th annual GRAMMY Week celebration in recognition of his ongoing support for the art and craft of recorded music. 
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	<li>In 2013 White donated $200,000 to help launch the National Recording Preservation Foundation, a nonprofit established by the U.S. Congress for the purpose of supporting archives, libraries, cultural institutions and others committed to preserving America's radio, music and recorded sound heritage.</li>
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