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Alice Cooper (geboren als Vincent Damon Furnier, Detroit (Michigan), 4 februari 1948) is een Amerikaans rockzanger en muzikant. Tot 1974 was dit ook de naam van de door hem opgerichte band waarvan hij deel uitmaakte als zanger. Beide – zanger en band – werden bekend om hun rockmuziek met extravagante en – reeds voor het fenomeen punk – op choqueren gerichte podiumacts. Behalve dit imago was ook het gebruik van maar liefst vier gitaristen kenmerkend, aangevuld met een drummer en Furnier zelf als de zanger die dan soms eveneens gitaar en andere instrumenten bespeelt. Het genre rock van de band en de zanger wordt doorgaans glam- of shockrock genoemd, al naargelang het accent wordt gelegd op de uitdossing van de artiesten dan wel het choquerende en provocerende karakter van hun theatrale podiumact en de thema's van de songteksten.

Alice Cooper (born Vincent Damon Furnier; February 4, 1948) is an American rock singer and songwriter whose career spans sixty years. With a raspy voice and a stage show that features numerous props and stage illusions, Cooper is considered by music journalists and peers to be "The Godfather of Shock Rock". He has drawn from horror films, vaudeville, and garage rock to pioneer a macabre and theatrical brand of rock designed to shock audiences.

Originating in Phoenix, Arizona, in 1964, Alice Cooper was originally a band consisting of Furnier, guitarists Glen Buxton and Michael Bruce, bassist Dennis Dunaway, and drummer Neal Smith. The band released seven albums from 1969 to 1973 and broke up in 1975. Having legally changed his name to Alice Cooper, Furnier began a solo career that year with the concept album Welcome to My Nightmare. During his career he has sold over 50 million records.

Cooper has experimented with various musical styles, mainly hard rock, glam rock, heavy metal, and glam metal, as well as new wave, art rock, and industrial rock. He helped shape the sound and look of heavy metal, and has been described as the artist who "first introduced horror imagery to rock'n'roll, and whose stagecraft and showmanship have permanently transformed the genre". He is also known for his wit offstage, with The Rolling Stone Album Guide calling him the world's most "beloved heavy metal entertainer". Aside from music, Cooper is a film actor, a golfing celebrity, a restaurateur, and, since 2004, a radio disc jockey (DJ) with his classic rock show Alice's Attic.