They released their debut EP the Grave End of the Shovel in 2000. The band cycled through six bassists before recruiting Tim McIlrath, who had recently departed from Baxter. Wentz formed the metalcore band Novena (later renamed to Arma Angelus) soon after, along with Adam Bishop of XshroudX and Extinction Daniel Binaei of Racetraitor and Timothy Miller.
By the mid-1990s, he became an infrequent bass player for Racetraitor. He formed his first band, First Born, in 1993. Wentz was primarily involved in the Chicago hardcore punk scene and was in several bands in the late 1990s. Music career Arma Angelus and other early projects (1993–2002) After graduating from high school in 1997, he attended DePaul University, where he studied political science, dropping out one quarter shy of graduation to focus on Fall Out Boy. Music was more of a challenge and, in the end, felt more interesting." ĭuring his first year of high school, he began skipping school regularly and smoking marijuana with friends, but later quit as it was affecting his grades at school.
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He considered pursuing a professional career in the sport, but decided that music was a more fulfilling choice he says that he "always had a magical connection to the ball. Wentz attended North Shore Country Day School, where he was an all-state soccer player. Wentz recalled in a Rolling Stone interview that his earliest musical memory was listening to The Foundations' song " Build Me Up Buttercup" in the back of his father's car. Wentz' parents met in the 1970s while campaigning for Joe Biden's senatorial run. Ambassador to Sierra Leone Arthur Winston Lewis' cousin was General Colin Powell. His maternal grandfather, Arthur Winston Lewis, served as the U.S. He has a younger sister, Hillary, and a younger brother, Andrew.
Wentz is of English and German descent on his father's side and Afro-Jamaican descent on his mother's side. His parents are Dale (née Lewis), a high school admissions counselor, and Pete Wentz II, an attorney. Peter Lewis Kingston Wentz III was born in Wilmette, Illinois, an affluent suburb of Chicago. and UNICEF's Tap Project, a fundraising project that helps bring clean drinking water to people worldwide, People magazine states that "no bassist has upstaged a frontman as well as Pete Wentz of Fall Out Boy." He is also a minority owner of the Phoenix Rising FC, a USL Championship team. His philanthropic activities include collaborations with Invisible Children, Inc.
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He hosts the TV show Best Ink and runs a film production company called Bartskull Films, as well as a bar called Angels & Kings. Wentz has also ventured into other non-musical projects, including writing, acting, and fashion in 2005 he founded a clothing company called Clandestine Industries. He owns a record label, DCD2 Records, which has signed bands including Panic! at the Disco and Gym Class Heroes.įall Out Boy returned from hiatus in February 2013, and have since released four albums Save Rock and Roll, American Beauty/American Psycho, Mania, and So Much (for) Stardust.
During Fall Out Boy's hiatus from 2009 to 2012, Wentz formed the experimental, electropop and dubstep group Black Cards. Before Fall Out Boy, Wentz was a fixture of the Chicago hardcore scene and was the lead singer and songwriter for Arma Angelus, a metalcore band. Peter Lewis Kingston Wentz III (born June 5, 1979) is an American musician who is best known as the bassist and lyricist for the rock band Fall Out Boy.
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