Jack White is an unimaginable musician and a Rock & Roll Corridor of Fame inductee, however he’s not the one expertise in his family.
The 50-year-old is fortunately married to Olivia Jean, 35, and he created a viral second when he proposed mid-performance after which married her on stage moments later in 2022.
The couple first met in 2009 when she signed to his file label, Third Man Information, however it wasn’t till 2014 that they started a romantic relationship.
“We have been simply actually good buddies,” she advised the New York Instances in July 2022. “It’s important to know that you would be able to be buddies for some time earlier than you may date. It wasn’t actually a transition. It was extra, OK, that is occurring. Extra like a continuation.”
© Getty PicturesOlivia Jean is Jack’s third spouse. He married his The White Stripes bandmate and drummer, Meg White, in 1996, they usually divorced in 2000.
His second spouse was mannequin and singer Karen Elson, whom he wed in 2005 earlier than they introduced their separation in 2011, with their divorce official in 2013. They’ve two kids, Scarlett Teresa White and Henry Lee White.
Discover out extra about Jack White’s third spouse, Olivia Jean, beneath.
© InstagramOlivia Jean can play a number of guitars and different devices
She’s a multi-instrumentalist
Not solely is Olivia Jean a singer and songwriter, however she additionally performs a number of devices after receiving her first guitar from her aunt for her seventh birthday. She now performs a wide range of guitars, together with the Fender American Skilled Jazzmaster and Gretsch George Harrison Duo Jet, drums, piano, and bass.
© InstagramOlivia Jean’s first live performance was The White Stripes
The White Stripes have been her first live performance in 2003
When Olivia Jean was 13, she attended her first music live performance at Detroit’s Masonic Temple, and it was none aside from The White Stripes. “My mother beloved it,” she advised The Huffington Publish in 2014.
“After I began taking music a bit bit extra severely, I do not suppose [my parents] knew my intentions have been to attempt to make a profession out of it. So after I turned extra obsessive about the music, they’d get type of pissed off with me taking part in on a regular basis. However they have been all the time supportive.”
© InstagramOlivia Jean has impeccable model
She has unimaginable model
One take a look at Olivia Jean’s Instagram and you may see that she has nice model, with a penchant for leather-based and daring patterns. She’s additionally been rocking winged eyeliner since she was a baby and has mastered the right cat eye.
“The cat eyes I’ve had since I received my first eyeliner – I believe I used to be 11 after I first coloured my hair black and began carrying heavy make-up. My mother would say I seemed spooky, and I might say, ‘Thanks – that is what I am going for,'” she advised Vogue in 2023.
“Later, after I was 16, I went to cosmetology faculty – it was one by my faculty, so it was not very high-end – and our textbooks have been from the ’70s, so we have been studying all of the hairstyles from the ’60s. All of us in my cosmetology faculty had big bouffants, and it simply turned part of me.”
© InstagramOlivia Jean and Jack have collaborated on a number of initiatives
She’s collaborated with Jack
Olivia Jean and Jack have been collaborators lengthy earlier than they turned husband and spouse. They met when she was 19 after he obtained her demo, and he invited her to his Third Man Information file label. After forming an all-female goth-garage band known as The Black Belles, Jack produced their first single and their 2011 self-titled debut album.
Since then, they’ve collaborated many occasions, with Olivia Jean taking part in on a number of of Jack’s solo albums and showing in his music movies. Jack additionally produced her 2014 solo debut album, Bathtub Love Killings.
© InstagramJack proposed and married Olivia Jean on stage in 2022
She received engaged and married Jack White on stage
On April 8, 2022, Jack created a viral second when he not solely proposed to Olivia Jean on stage throughout his efficiency at Detroit’s Masonic Temple (the venue the place she noticed The White Stripes for the primary time 19 years prior), however they received married on stage too.
Jack invited his then-girlfriend on stage to carry out a rendition of The White Stripes’ music, “Resort Yorba”, and popped the query proper earlier than he sang the lyrics, “Let’s get married.”
A tearful Olivia Jean instantly stated, ‘Sure,’ and after ending the music, the newly engaged couple disappeared off stage, earlier than returning for the encore, the place they tied the knot in entrance of Jack’s mother, Olivia Jean’s dad, and the elated crowd.
The ceremony was officiated by Third Man Information co-founder Ben Swank, and the bass gamers from their respective bands served as greatest man and maid of honor.
