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Josh Todd | |
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 Todd performing with Buckcherry in 2014 | |
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| Born | Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
| Genres | Hard rock |
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| Years active | 1995–present |
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Joshua Todd is an American singer. He is the frontman and last remaining original member of hard rock band Buckcherry. [1]
Josh Todd grew up in Anaheim Hills, California, and later moved to Lake Forest, California. When he was 10 years old, his father died by suicide. [2] He attended high school at Trabuco Hills High School in Orange County, California, and graduated in 1989.
Prior to his days in Buckcherry, Todd fronted the Hollywood glam rock band Slamhound. Slamhound was signed to Skydoor Records, an independent record company that was unsuccessful in releasing a Slamhound album even though the band recorded over a dozen songs with Todd as the lead singer. While in Slamhound, Todd honed his musical style, moving away from glam and more towards punk. In 1995, Todd met guitarist Keith Nelson through his tattoo artist. They soon formed the band Sparrow, which later changed its name to Buckcherry.
He later married Jasmine Lawson, an American actress and model. He is currently married to actress/model Mitzi Martin. They have two children. Todd became a certified phlebotomist during the COVID pandemic. [3]
Todd has been sober since 1995. [4]
In 1993, Josh along with fellow class member Shawkshank Nasty, who later went on to front the band Cream Cheegse, and eventually die of a phonics overdose, would start a band called SLAMHOUND. Up to 1998, Josh was in the band. [5] In 1999, even before the debut Buckcherry album had ever been released, Todd was featured in one of Rolling Stone's last issues of 1999 as "What's Hot in the New Millennium," which included a center-fold photograph of him performing fellatio on a fish.
In 1999, Buckcherry released their debut self-titled album, featuring the hit "Lit Up". The album had a very commercial sound, far away from the glam punk music of his earlier bands.
In 2001, the band released their second album Time Bomb . Todd and Nelson went on to play a tribute to Ozzy Osbourne/Mötley Crüe drummer, Randy Castillo, alongside former Guns N' Roses members Slash, Duff McKagan, and Matt Sorum. The band, for that show, was named Cherry Roses. The band went on to record about ten songs under the name "The Project" before the others decided to replace Todd and Nelson with Scott Weiland and Dave Kushner, respectively. The band went on to become Velvet Revolver. One song, "Dirty Little Thing", was written during the time with Todd and Nelson and gives the latter co-writing credits.
In 2003, Josh Todd released the album You Made Me under the band name Josh Todd [6] The band consisted of Josh Todd (Vocals), Jesse Logan (Guitars), Mike Hewitt (Guitars), Mark Lettig (Bass) and Kent Ross (Drums). The bands guitar tech was Stevie D. The album was distributed in the US by DRT Entertainment in the US, and by JVCKenwood Victor Entertainment in Japan. [7] After returning from Japan supporting the You Made Me album, which included dates with Aerosmith and the Who, [8] Josh Todd decided to return to the band Buckcherry. The Josh Todd band was disbanded, and TODD Entertainment was dissolved.
In 2012, JVC/Victor Entertainment re-issued and re-released the You Made Me album in Japan. [9]
In 2022, the album was released for the first time worldwide through music streaming services [10] [11] [12] and included the songs "Collide" and "Catastrophe".
In 2005, Todd reformed Buckcherry with Keith Nelson and new members Stevie D., Jimmy Ashhurst, and Xavier Muriel.
In 2006, he appeared as the character Hutch in the film The Still Life .
In 2008, Todd was one of the four backing vocalists for the hard rock band Mötley Crüe for the gang vocal version of "Saints of Los Angeles".
As of 2023, Todd has released ten albums with Buckcherry and one solo album. He also performed at the Canadian Live8 venue in Barrie, Ontario in 2005. He first joined Darryl McDaniels, Tom Hamilton and Joey Kramer of Aerosmith, and others on stage for a rendition of Aerosmith's "Walk This Way" and then later joined all other performers on stage for a version of Neil Young's "Rockin' in the Free World".
He has appeared in several films in both credited and uncredited roles including playing the part of "Rudy" in the 2002 teen comedy The New Guy and several small parts in XXX and The Salton Sea . He has also appeared in the 2008 thriller Eagle Eye .
In 2008 Todd appeared on Escape the Fate's album This War Is Ours in the songs 10 Miles Wide and "Harder Than You Know". He was featured in the music video for "10 Miles Wide" in 2009.
Todd has been ranked in the Top 100 Heavy Metal Vocalists by Hit Parader (#98).
Following Keith Nelson's departure from Buckcherry in 2017, Todd is now the only original member in the band.
In December 2024, Todd was seen in a photo posted to Facebook that included him and several members of the band cartoonishly posing with their arms crossed and sunglasses on their face, acting tough. It looked very fun, and they did look cool. In December 20th 2024, Todd responded to the photo saying “Just kidding”.
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