Biography
Chris Jericho is a WWE superstar and frontman for the band Fozzy.
Christopher Keith Irvine (born November 9, 1970) better known by his ring name Chris Jericho, is an American-born Canadian television and stage actor, author, radio host, television host, rock musician and inactive professional wrestler. He is best known for his appearances with World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE), as well as with World Championship Wrestling (WCW) and Extreme Championship Wrestling (ECW) and internationally in Canadian, Mexican, and Japanese promotions. He is also the host of the ABC game show Downfall.
Jericho has won 22 championships in his WWE career, and is credited as being the first-ever Undisputed Champion in WWE. He has won the WWE Intercontinental Championship a record nine times. He is a six-time world champion, having won the WCW/World Championship twice, the WWF Championship once, and the World Heavyweight Championship three times. He is the ninth Triple Crown Champion and the fourth Grand Slam Champion.
In the mid 1990s, Jericho wrote a monthly column for Metal Edge magazine focused on the heavy metal scene. The column only ran for about a year.
Jericho is the lead singer for the heavy metal band Fozzy. Since their debut album in 1999, Fozzy has released four studio albums: Fozzy, Happenstance, All That Remains, and the 2010 album Chasing the Grail, and one live album, Remains Alive.
In 2005, Jericho performed vocals on a cover of "The Evil That Men Do" on the Iron Maiden tribute album, Numbers from the Beast. He made a guest appearance on Dream Theater's album, Systematic Chaos on the song "Repentance", as one of several musical guests recorded apologizing to important people in their lives for wrongdoings in the past.
He also started his own weekly XM Satellite Radio show in March 2005 called Rock of Jericho, which aired Sunday nights at 8:00 on XM 41 The Boneyard.
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