Mike Patton

A highly respected experimental musician with a unique vocal range, Mike Patton could be defined as a musical polymath. He achieved fame for his role as frontman of grunge-era rockers Faith No More, and then took as many left turns through the music industry as he possibly could. Aggressively uncommercial projects such as Mr. Bungle, Fantômas, Tomahawk, Peeping Tom and many more made him a difficult man to categorize. He explored the outer reaches of mainstream metal via avant-garde jazz and worked with everyone from Icelandic sprite Björk and jazz-pop superstar Norah Jones to metal titans Slayer and golden-age hip-hoppers Boo-Ya TRIBE. The only similarity that linked these seemingly disparate projects is a love of the experimental and the alterative.