Adam Gontier

Adam Gontier met his first wife, Naomi Brewer, back in high school and the couple dated for a long time, eventually getting hitched in 2004. However, the marriage didn’t last long and the couple parted ways in 2013. Naomi blamed Adam’s alcoholism for the split.

Adam suffered from drug addiction at one point and went to a rehabilitation centre. He has shared his experience in his docu-drama and a song ‘Never Too Late’ for his second album. His then wife featured on the video for the song.

Adam dated Jeanie Larsen and the couple later got married in 2015.

Adam Wade Gontier was born in Ontario, Canada, on 25th May 1975 and spent most of his childhood in Markham neighbourhood in the city. His parents divorced a few years after Adam’s birth and music was where he found mental peace at.

Adam did his primary schooling from Adam Scott Collegiate Vocational Institute, and thereafter, he went to Norwood District high school. It was in high school that he started thinking of pursuing music, and along with his friends, Neil Sanderson, and Brad Walst, he started practicing music and the group rocked the school shows.

Adam started the band Groundswell, which was later renamed to ‘Three Days Grace’, with his high school buddies. The band toured around in local events before slowly gaining popularity and the big break arrived in 2003, when they got the chance to release their very first debut album titled ‘Three Days Grace’. The album went platinum and generated a positive buzz around the new band on the block.

The local and national Canadian radio shows started playing songs from the album, and owing to the raw emotional appeal, the songs were loved immensely. Enthused with the following, the band released their second album in 2006, titled ‘One-x’. The album wasn’t as emotional as the first and had a darker tone to it, yet, it went platinum and four singles from it went on to achieve the gold status.

In 2009, the band released their third album titled ‘Life Starts Now’ and spent the next couple of years touring around. In 2013, Adam left the band, and was replaced by Matt Walst.

Apart from Three Days Grace, Adam has contributed his talents to several other musicians and his most successful and critically acclaimed collaboration happened with the band ‘Apocalyptica’. In 2007, Adam sang and arranged music for the band’s single ‘I Don’t care’ for the highly appreciated album ‘Worlds Collide’.

Another Canadian rock band ‘Art of Dying’ hired Adam to contribute on a song called ‘raining’ for their album ‘Vices and Virtues’, in which his brother, Cale Gontier, is a bass player. Adam briefly joined a super rock group ‘Big Dirty Band’, which was hired to do a song for the movie ‘Trailer Park Boys’. The song titled ‘I fought the law’ (cover version) hit it big and the group received accolades.

As of June 2017, Adam Gontier’s net worth is USD 8 millions.