Thursday, April 30, 2015

Jen Ledger

Jennifer Carole "Jen" Ledger (born 8 December 1989) is an English drummer and co-vocalist for the American Christian rock/hard rockband Skillet. At the age of eighteen she became Skillet's drummer, when their former drummer Lori Peters retired.[1]
Ledger relocated to the United States at age 16 to major in drums at Living Light School of Worship in Kenosha, Wisconsin.
She has toured as Skillet's drummer since the "Comatose Tour", and has also provided vocals on the albums Awake andRise.

Seth Morrison

Jacob Seth Morrison (born February 19, 1988) is an American musician and the lead guitarist for the Christian rock band Skillet. He joined the band in April 2011.
In a YouTube interview Morrison said he heard about Skillet looking for a new guitarist so he contacted his friend Tim Rosenau (guitarist for tobyMac) asking for more information. From there Rosenau asked tobyMac, however there was never a reply back from Rosenau. Later Morrison received an email from the Skillet's manager, Scotty Rock, asking for photos, certain songs, and Morrison's testimony. Later Morrison received a phone call from an area code he wasn't familiar with so he left the call alone but claimed he had a "felt led" to call back the number. The phone call led to the voice mail of Scotty Rock who later called back Morrison where John Cooper joined in on the conversation asking Morrison to fly out where he had only a week to prepare himself and learn the songs.
 He's been a Christian since the age of seven along with his family being Christian as his parents had a Christian traveling group. Along with being a Christian, one of his favorite Bible verses out of a few is Romans 8:28. Along with a Psalm verse, Psalm 144:1 where it talks about the Lord preparing your hands and fingers for battle which Seth claims he finds cool because it relates to playing guitar. He also says that even before joining Skillet he had been a huge Skillet fan.

Skillet: Jen Ledger


Friday, April 24, 2015

Korey Cooper

Korey Cooper

Korey Cooper (born Korene Marie Pingitore; July 21, 1972) is the keyboardistguitarist, and backing vocalist for the Christian Rock bandSkillet. Her husband, John Cooper, is the lead singer and bassist of the band, as well as one of the founding members. She has made contributions as a backing vocalist in addition to guitars and keyboards.
Cooper joined Skillet in 1999, between the albums Hey You, I Love Your Soul and Invincible. Their album Comatose was certified as Gold on November 18, 2009.

Personal life

Cooper and her husband John have tattooed wedding rings on their fingers, instead of the traditional jewelry bands.They have two children; Alexandria (born 2002) and Xavier (born 2005). Korey started playing guitar on stage with Skillet in 2003. She learned how to play about 4 months prior to that date. Other guitarists substituted for her when the children were born. Cooper and her husband have co-written many of Skillet's songs.

Wednesday, April 22, 2015

John Cooper

John Landrum Cooper (born April 7, 1975), professionally credited as John L. Cooper, is an American musician. He has been the lead singer,bassist and co-founder of the Grammy-nominated[1] American Christian rock band Skillet since 1996.
Starting Skillet
John formed Skillet in 1996 with Ken Steorts. Both had met while touring for previous bands; John as vocalist for the Tennessee progressive rock band Seraph and Ken Steorts guitarist for Urgent Cry. The bands disbanded soon after, so John and Ken's pastor encouraged them to form their own band as a side-project. Coming from different styles of rock music, they decided to name the experiment Skillet. Soon afterwards Trey McClurkin joined the band as a temporary drummer. Skillet was only together for a month when they received interest from major Christian record label ForeFront Records and were signed soon afterwards. Ken Steorts left the band in 1999 and Trey McClurkin left the band in 2000 leaving John as the only founding member of the band and primary songwriter.
Personal Life
John was born and raised in a religious home and listening to rock music was not allowed in his home." You couldn't wear black, you couldn't listen to anything with drums, anything with guitars, you couldn't have long hair, you couldn't do this do that. Everything was so lifeless. I know I'd read the Bible and be like...'This isn't what the Bible says. I like the idea of living for Jesus, but I hate the idea of living for you.' Ya know?"
John met hos wife Korey Cooper ( Current member of skillet) in his church in Memphis, Tennessee.
 

Skillet Intro

Skillet is a Christian rock band formed in Memphis, Tennessee in 1996 and based in the United States. The band currently consists of husband and wife John (lead vocals, bass) and Korey Cooper (rhythm guitar, keyboards, backing vocals), along with Jen Ledger (drums, vocals) andSeth Morrison (lead guitar). The band has released nine albums, two receiving Grammy nominations: Collide and ComatoseAwake has been certified Platinum and debuted on No. 2 on the Billboard 200, with Comatose certified Gold by RIAA.
Skillet went through several line-up changes early in their career, leaving founder John Cooper as the only original member remaining in the band. They have sold over 2 million albums in the U.S. alone[not verified in body] and are known for a relentless touring schedule, which garnered them a top five ranking in the Hardest Working Bands of 2011 by Songkick.com.