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Gerard Way

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Also known as Gerard Arthur Way

American singer (born 1977)

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Gerard Way is an American male artist and author whose professional career began in 2001. He is associated with genres including alternative rock, indie rock, noise pop, and power pop. His musical output has been categorized under tags such as rock, alternative, and male vocalists.

Way has authored twenty-four works, with notable titles including *The Umbrella Academy Volume 3*, *Apocalypse Suite*, and *Dallas*. He has also been credited with five works in academic databases. His official website is gerardway.com, and he maintains a social media presence with 1,499,632 followers.

Synthesized by Vinony from 21 facts across 6 sources: Wikidata, Last.fm, Crossref, MusicBrainz, Open Library, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.

Person · Open Library

Born
1977
Works
24

Top works

  • Umbrella Academy – Coffret 3 Volumes
  • The Umbrella Academy Volume 3
  • Dallas
  • Apocalypse Suite
  • The Umbrella Academy 1

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Gender
Male
Origin
United States
Active from
1977-04-09
indie rocknoise popnoise rockpower poptelevision music

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
508,634
Total plays
15,539,740

Tags

alternative rockrockalternativemale vocalistsamerican

Gerard Arthur Way (born April 9, 1977 in Belleville, New Jersey, United States) is an American musician and comic book writer who is the lead vocalist and co-founder of the band My Chemical Romance. He is the executive producer of the band LostAlone's second album I'm a UFO in This City. Way also wrote the comic mini-series The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys, and wrote the Eisner Award-winning comic book The Umbrella Academy. His debut solo album Hesitant Alien was released on September 30,

via Last.fm · Gerard Way

Key facts

Born
Gerard Arthur Way , ( 1977-04-09 ) April 9, 1977 (age 49) , Summit, New Jersey , U.S.
Occupations
Singer songwriter comic book writer
Years active
2001–present
Spouse
Lindsey Ballato ​ ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 2007 ) ​
Relatives
Mikey Way (brother) Joe Rogan (second cousin)
Genres
Alternative rock emo pop-punk post-hardcore punk rock hard rock
Instrument
Vocals
Works
Discography
Member of
My Chemical Romance
Website
gerardway .com

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Encyclopedic overview

Gerard Arthur Way (born April 9, 1977) is an American singer, songwriter, and comic book writer. He is best known as the lead vocalist and co-founder of the rock band My Chemical Romance. He released his debut solo album, Hesitant Alien, in 2014.

Way co-created and wrote the comic series The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys and The Umbrella Academy, the latter of which was later adapted into a popular Netflix series that ran for four seasons. He is also the founder of DC Comics' Young Animal imprint, and wrote the imprint's flagship series, Doom Patrol.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Gerard Way” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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