As lead singer and songwriter for the Red Hot Chili Peppers, ANTHONY KIEDIS has lived life on the razor's edge. Much has been written about him, but until now, we've only had his songs as clues to his experience from the inside. In Scar Tissue, Kiedis proves himself to be as compelling a memoirist as he is a lyricist, giving us a searingly honest account of the life from which his music has evolved. The Red Hot Chili Peppers are that rare breed of rock band: critically lauded and popularly embraced by millions of fans, their albums consistently sell into the stratosphere-their CD Californications sold over 13 million copies alone.

Anthony Kiedis (born November 1, 1962) is the lead singer of the Red Hot Chili Peppers, is a co-founder of the band, and is resposible for writing most of the band'slyrics. Anthony Keidis was born in Grand Rapids, Michigan, to John Kiedis (also knows as Spider or Blackie Dammett) and Margaret "Peggy" Noble, and has two half-sisters, Julie and Jenny and a half-brother, James. his parents divorced in 1965 when he was three. He lived with his mother in Grand Rapids until he was twelve, the moved to California with his father, who was an actor in Los Angeles, and a drug dealer.