Layne Staley was an American musician who became the famous vocalist of the Seattle rock band, Alice in Chain from 1987 to 1998. Also a member of the alternative rock supergroup Class of ’99 and Mad Season, Staley has had a very difficult time since the mid-1990s. 1990s, after his struggles. suffering from depression and addiction to drugs that would kill him in less than 10 years.
Bio – Who was Layne Staley?
As already said, Layne was an American musician. He was born Layne Rutherford Staley on August 22, 1967 in Kirkland, Washington. He dropped his middle name because he hated it so much that he got angry every time someone called him by his name. In fact, he changed the name to Thomas when he was a teenager, after Tommy Lee from Mötley Crüe.
Since childhood, Layne Staley had always loved music that he joined a rhythm group before he was even 3 years old. At 9, he already knew he wanted to become a singer. For her education, Layne Staley attended Meadowdale High School in Lynnwood.
At the age of 12, the music star was already playing the drums, and soon after he started playing for different bands. In 1984 Layne became part of Sleze, a glam metal band with other members such as Johnny Bacolas, Zoli Semanate, James Bergstrom and Byron Hansen. It was this music group that would later become Alice in Chains.
With Alice in Chains, Layne Staley released albums such as Facelift (1990), Dirty (1992), and the self-titled Alice in Chains (1995). He has also worked with other bands including Heart, Mad Season, Second Coming and Class of ’99.
Mom, girlfriend and wife
One of Layne Staley’s closest people was his mother, Nancy Elizabeth Staley, who primarily raised him alongside his stepfather, Jim Elmer. His father, Phillip Blair Staley and his mother got a divorce when he was just seven years old. It was after this that her mother married Elmer.
Although he was related to a few women in the past before his death, he never had a wife since he was never married. Also, at the time of his death, he had no record of his girlfriend. That said, he was almost married once to Demri Lara Parrott, whom he dated from 1989 to 1994. They were engaged for two years, from 1992 to 1994, before the engagement broke off.
Two years later, Parrott would lose his life to an inflammation of the heart resulting from a heroin overdose. Still very much in love, this loss marks the beginning of the tragedy that will later strike the singer years later.
When did he die?
Described as a very shy and unintroverted person, Layne Staley had begun her decline from late 1996 and 1997. This was following the death of her former fiancée, Demri Lara Parrott, who died in October 1996 from complications of an overdose. This pushed him into a strong depression that he was even placed under surveillance.
By 1999, things had gotten so bad that Staley was barely seen. He spent all his time locked up in his apartment where he not only self-medicated but took drugs. Apart from that, the Alice in Chains singer who had stopped answering the door stayed home to paint and play video games.
Around 2001, he almost joined Audioslave, a claim that would later be denied by the band’s guitarist, Tom Morello. It was rumored that at the time, Staley was about to go to rehab so he could audition to be part of the band.
On April 19, 2002, the decomposing body of the singer was discovered at his home by his mother, her ex-husband, and the police after his accountants reported to him that the singer had not made any withdrawals from his account at the over the past two weeks. Following an autopsy, it was discovered that he had died two weeks before the day his body was discovered, April 5. In addition, the cause of death qualified as accidental was acute intoxication due to a combination of heroin and cocaine.
A day before the death of Layne Staley, his former bandmate in Alice in Chain, Mike Starr came to see him. According to Starr, Staley was in poor health at the time, but he refused to call 911. The two men got into a fight, and Starr stormed out as Staley reminded him not to leave. Starr continued to blame himself for the singer’s death for not doing enough to save him, even though Staley’s mother insisted it wasn’t her fault.
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