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Jack White reveals tough childhood growing up

Jack White has admitted that he felt like a "kid in the 40s from Europe" growing up.

Being the youngest out of ten siblings and growing up in Detroit, Michigan, Jack White told Esquire magazine: “My mom's Polish and she was born in the Depression. I was raised by people who were senior citizens, along with nine brothers and sisters. So I was really raised like a kid in the '40s from Europe, plucked in the middle of blue-collar America”.

However, the 37-year old admitted that it was his early years that focused his ambitions for music: “But all of that showed me the beauty of music, song-writing structure, family, folk, culture. All those were involved in constructing how I looked at the world.”

Jack White went on to say that he struggled to make friends in his old neighborhood due to him having different tastes and interests to his school mates: "I went to an all-Mexican school and graduated to an all-black high school, and I'm coming home and watching The Godfather and listening to Hank Williams and reading about the Second World War, and at school everyone's doing none of that!"

Jack White is currently promoting his debut solo album, ‘Blunderbuss’.

 

 

 

 

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