Dave Grohl

He rose to fame as the drummer for the grunge band Nirvana and sustained a high level of post-Nirvana success as the founder, lead singer, guitarist, and primary songwriter for the alternative rock band Foo Fighters. He is also the drummer and co-founder of the rock supergroup Them Crooked Vultures and had short-lived side projects called Late! and Probot. He has also recorded and toured with Queens of the Stone Age.

At the age of 17, Grohl joined the punk rock band Scream after the departure of drummer Kent Stax. He joined Nirvana soon after Scream's disbandment. Nirvana's second album Nevermind (1991) was the band's first to feature Grohl and became a worldwide commercial success. Following the suicide of Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain in 1994, Grohl formed Foo Fighters as a one-man project. In 1995, the project's self-titled debut album was released by Roswell and Capitol Records. After the success of the album, Grohl assembled a band for touring and further recording under the Foo Fighters name, and the band has since released nine studio albums.

Grohl established himself as a respected drummer with Nirvana, and would eventually be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame alongside bandmates Cobain and Krist Novoselic in 2014, the group's first year of eligibility. In 2010, he was described by Classic Rock Drummers co-author Ken Micallef as one of the most influential rock musicians of the last 20 years.[1] In 2021, he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame a second time as a member of Foo Fighters, also in their first year of eligibility.[2]

Having directed numerous Foo Fighters music videos since 1997, Grohl made his debut as a documentary filmmaker with Sound City (2013), followed by the documentary miniseries Sonic Highways (2014) and the documentary What Drives Us (2021). Also in 2021, he published his first book, a memoir titled The Storyteller: Tales of Life and Music.