Key facts
- Also known as
- #4
- Born
- James Donald Root , ( 1971-10-02 ) October 2, 1971 (age 54) , Las Vegas, Nevada , U.S.
- Genres
- Heavy metal nu metal groove metal alternative metal hard rock
- Occupations
- Musician songwriter
- Instrument
- Guitar
- Years active
- 1990–present
- Member of
- Slipknot
- Formerly of
- Stone Sour Deadfront Atomic Opera
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Donald
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Las Vegas
- Occupation
- songwriter
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Genre
- alternative rock
- Instrument
- drum kit
- Record label
- Sony BMG Music Entertainment, Inc.
- Image
- W0920-Hellfest2013 StoneSour JamesRoot 71653-Crop.JPG
- Height
- 198
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- member of
- Slipknot
- Commons category
- James Root
- date of birth
- 1971-10-02
- name in native language
- Jim Root
- pseudonym
- #4, The Jester
- start of work period
- 1991-00-00
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Encyclopedic overview
James Donald Root (born October 2, 1971) is an American musician. He is one of two guitarists for heavy metal band Slipknot, in which he is designated #4, as well as the former lead guitarist for rock band Stone Sour.
He is considered by a variety of journalists to be among the best and most important nu metal guitarists of all time.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Jim Root” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.