Ted Nugent

He married Sandra Jezowski in 1970 and divorced her in 1979. The couple had three children.

He is currently married to Shemane Deziel with whom he has two children.

Apart from his wives, he was involved with several other women and has fathered three children out of wedlock.

Ted Nugent was born in Detroit to Marion Dorothy and Warren Nugent. He has three siblings. He was raised Catholic and attends church regularly.

He started displaying his interest in music from a young age and started playing music when he was six.

He studied at St. Viator High School and William Fremd High School. He formed his first music band, Lourds, when he was just 14.

Ted Nugent, along with other musicians like Bob Lehnert, Gary Hicks and Dick Treat formed a band The Amboy Dukes in 1964 which used to perform in clubs. The band’s music covered various rock genres like hard rock, acid rock, and heavy metal.

In 1967, the band released its first album, ‘The Amboy Dukes’ which was well received by the public.

The band featured two new members at the time of the release of their second album, ‘Journey to the Center of the Mind’ (1968).

The Amboy Dukes underwent frequent reshuffles, and had a different line-up when they brought out their next album, ‘Migration’ in 1969.

Over the early 1970’s, the band released some more albums including ‘Survival of the Fittest Live’ (1971), ‘Call of the Wild’ (1973), and ‘Tooth Fang and Claw’ (1974).

His debut solo album, ‘Ted Nugent’ (1975) was responsible for introducing the talented young man as a capable artist to the American public. It featured the hit ‘Stranglehold’ which defined his signature style of music, and went multi-platinum in the U.S.

The 1976 album, ‘Free-for-All’, with the title track of the same name was accredited multi-platinum in the U.S. and Gold in Canada.

‘Cat Scratch Fever’ (1977) was one of his biggest commercial hits. Nugent had written most of the songs in this album that featured among the Top 100 songs in the U.S, U.K, Canada, and Sweden. The album went Platinum in both the U.S. and Canada.