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- Type
- Group
- Origin
- Czechia
- Active from
- 1987
Discography
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Full Name: James Donald Root Date of Birth: October 2, 1971 Place of Birth: Des Moines, Iowa Nickname: The Peach Mask:Currently Jim wears a very white Jester style latex mask. It features imbedded dark areas around his eyes and zipper between his lips on his mask. The mask is a very realistic looking mask, particularly in his nose and it almost looks like Jim is only wearing make up due to this. The majority of the mask is white and the engraved areas of the mask are completely black with a red
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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
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- W0920-Hellfest2013 StoneSour JamesRoot 71653-Crop.JPG
- Height
- 198
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- 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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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.