Bob Seger Biography, Age, Wife, Net Worth, Albums and Songs

Bob Seger Biography

Bob Seger born Robert Clark Seger, is an American singer, songwriter, producer, bandleader, guitarist, and pianist. He was born on May 6, 1945, to Charlotte and Stewart Seger at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit, Michigan.

Bob Seger Age

Bob was born on May 6, 1945. He is currently 73 years old as of 2018.

Bob Seger Family And Early LIfe

At age five he moved with his family to Ann Arbor. Seger was exposed to music from an early age as his father played several instruments. In 1956, when Seger was 10 years old, his father abandoned the family and moved to California. The remaining family soon lost their comfortable middle-class status and struggled financially.

Bob Seger Education

He attended Tappan Junior High School, now Tappan Middle School in Ann Arbor, Michigan and graduated from Pioneer High School then Ann Arbor High School in 1963. Seger also went to Lincoln Park High School for a year. During his high school days, he ran track and field.

Bob Seger Wife

Seger’s first marriage in 1968 lasted for “one day short of a year”. He had a long-term relationship with Jan Dinsdale from 1972 until 1983. In 1987, he married actress Annette Sinclair and they divorced one year later. He married Juanita Dorricott in 1993, in a small private setting at The Village Club, in Bloomfield Hills; they have two children.

Bob Seger Career

Seger’s songs tell stories about characters with whom listeners can readily identify. They are often about people who are trying to find their way through a world that has proven more complex, challenging than they could have imagined.

That road is one that Seger has traveled himself, though he has fortunately always proven able to find his way back home. One of Michigan’s finest, he grew up outside the media’s spotlight and soaked up the rock & roll and soul sounds for which Detroit remains famous. Drawing on those sources, he defined a musical voice for the American heartland.

Seger paid his dues for many years trying to break out of the regional scene. He scored a national hit in 1968 with “Ramblin’ Gamblin’ Man,” his Capitol Records debut. But it would be eight long years and nine more albums before he would return to the charts.

During those years he toured relentlessly, upwards of 200 dates per year, and released a series of albums which die-hard fans celebrated but failed to break through the national charts. With money running out and diminishing returns from studio efforts, friends and foes alike were questioning whether he would ever make it.

As a last-ditch effort, Seger composed a group of songs which became his eighth album, Beautiful Loser. The album sold 80,000 copies in Michigan which helped give him a renewed sense of confidence. But it was the album Live Bullet that followed Beautiful Loser that finally brought Seger significant national attention, a double-vinyl-record set that was recorded live in Detroit in 1975 with the Silver Bullet Band.

Whatever recognition Seger had garnered to that point was based on two elements: the emotional power of his songs and the intensity of his live shows. Riveting performances of “Travelin’ Man/Beautiful Loser,” “Heavy Music,” “Katmandu,” “Ramblin’ Gamblin’ Man,” and “Turn the Page” combined those two elements on Live Bullet. The album broke and set the stage for Seger’s meteoric rise with Night Moves.

Night Moves ranks with the likes of American Graffiti, the film that inspired it, in its depiction of the bittersweet passage from adolescence into adulthood. Originally released in 1976, Night Moves was recorded in Detroit with the Silver Bullet Band and in Muscle Shoals, Alabama with the incomparable Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section.

The album went on to garner overwhelming critical praise, as well as, the hit singles “Night Moves,” “Mainstreet,” and “Rock and Roll Never Forgets.” It is one of the seminal records from the Seventies, and the fact that “Night Moves” continues to be a radio staple is a testament to how strongly listeners of all ages have felt their lives represented in it.

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But Seger was only beginning. The eight studio albums he has recorded since that time have generated a catalog of songs that have entered the pantheon of contemporary popular music: “Hollywood Nights,” “Still the Same,” “Old Time Rock and Roll,” “We’ve Got Tonight,” “You’ll Accomp’ny Me,” “Against the Wind,” “Her Strut,” “Roll Me Away,” “Like a Rock,” “The Fire Inside,” and more.