KID ROCK

Name: Kid Rock
Birth Name: Robert James Ritchie
Height: 6' 5"
Sex: M
Nationality: American
Birth Date: January 17, 1971
Birth Place: Romeo, Michigan, USA
Profession: actor, musician
Husband/Wife: Pamela Anderson (actress; engaged April 11, 2002; broke up June 2003; engaged July 18, 2006; married July 29, 2006 in St. Tropez, France; filed for divorce November 27, 2006)
Relationship: Kelley South Russell (autoworker)
Mother: Susan Elizabeth Ritchie
Sister: Jill Ritchie (actress; born March 5, 1974), Carol Ann Ritchie
Brother: William Joseph Ritchie, Billy Ritchie (loosing his leg because of lawn mower accident)
Son: Robert James Ritchie Jr. (born June 14, 1993; mother: Kelley South Russell)
Claim to fame: Double-platinum album Devil Without a Cause (1998)




KID ROCK GOSSIP


Spent this year's Christmas in Iraq, entertaining the U.S. troops stationed in the country. (2006)
Rock and Pamela Anderson tied the knot for the third time at Tootsie's Orchid Lounge in Nashville on August 17, 2006.
His lawyers and a California company have reached a tentative agreement to extend a judge's order blocking the release of an explicit sex video featuring the rap-rocker, former Creed singer Scott Stapp and four women in 1991. (March 20, 2006)
Blames Scott Stapp for losing a sex video by showing them with several strippers. (March 3, 2006)
Won a temporary ban on the distribution of an explicit sex tape, which features him and fellow singer Scott Stapp romping with four women on a tour bus in Miami, Florida, in 1999. (February 23, 2006)
Bought a three-storey home in Nashville, Tennessee for $800,000. (July 16, 2005)
Is sued for $575,000 by a disc jockey who claims the singer punched him during an early-morning altercation at an adult entertainment club in Nashville, Tenn., in February. (June 17, 2005)
Is charged with punching a DJ at a bar in Nashville. (February 18, 2005)
Says he's parting ways with his publishing company, Warner Chappell's BMI affiliated publishing company, Warner-Tamerlane. (January 28, 2005)
Has scored a legal victory as a federal appeals court has dismissed a copyright-infringement lawsuit against him by two Detroit promoters. (January 13, 2005)
Presents friend and fellow Michigander Bob Seger at Seger's induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on Monday. (March 15, 2004)
Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) is upset over the poncho Rock wore during the Super Bowl halftime show, which was made by cutting a slit in an American flag. (February 5, 2004)
Got best male hair in a celebrity hair survey conducted by Wella. (December 20, 2003)
Is less interested in rapping these days than he was earlier in his career – He said, “With some of the hip-hop stuff, I just found that you can only take it so many places. Melody and rhythm are my two favorite things, so with the rhythm of hip-hop, I love it, but melodically, you know, I couldn't see taking it too many more places. (November 13, 2003)
Kid Rock and Sheryl Crow collaborate in the hit duet Picture (November 11, 2003)