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JOHN RZEZNIK

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John Rzeznik (born John Joseph Theodore Rzeznik on December 5, 1965 in Buffalo, New York and also known as Johnny Rzeznik) is an United States|American songwriter, guitarist, vocalist and sometime record producer|producer. He is best known as the frontman of rock band the Goo Goo Dolls, of whom he is a founder member and with whom he has recorded eight studio albums.

Biography
Early life
John was born on December 5, 1965 in Buffalo, New York, the youngest of five children, to Joseph and Edith Rzeznik (pronounced "Res-nik" and meaning 'butcher' in Polish language|Polish<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.dict.pl/plen?word=butcher&lang=EN|title=English Polish Dictionary|accessdate=2007-10-31</ref>). Joseph was a postal worker, and Edith a schoolteacher, and both were musicians, playing clarinet and flute respectively. Rzeznik had a strict Catholic upbringing on Buffalo's working-class East Side. Rzeznik's father died from complications of alcoholism at the age of fifty five when John was fourteen years old. Just over a year later his mother died from a sudden heart attack - by the age of only sixteen John had lost both of his parents and was to be brought up by his four older sisters - Phyllis, Fran, Glad and Kate. It was during this period and while attending high school that John picked up what would become a life-long hobby and vocation, pla... read all