Sixx’s Origin Story
Sixx’s story is a lot like many others’ in the music scene. His father walked off when Sixx was only three years old. It also didn’t help that his mother battled addiction an
d often sent young Sixx to live with his grandparents when she couldn’t be bothered to take care of him. As we all know, this didn’t exactly set the best example for the young musician.
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As a teenager, Sixx was arrested multiple times for shoplifting and vandalism and was even expelled from school for dealing drugs. Sixx’s grandparents didn’t know how to handle him, so they shipped him back to his mother in Seattle—the same city where he bought his first bass with the money he made from selling a stolen guitar.