Chris Frazier (born September 7, 1967) is an American

drummer A drummer is a percussionist who creates music using drum The drum is a member of the percussion group of musical instruments. In the Hornbostel-Sachs classification system, it is a membranophone. Drums consist of at least one mem ...

. He is known in the professional ranks since he started recording and touring with guitarist

Steve Vai Steven Siro Vai (; born June 6, 1960) is an American guitarist, composer, songwriter, and producer. A three-time Grammy Award winner and fifteen-time nominee, Vai started his music career in 1978 at the age of eighteen as a transcriptionist for ...

from 1985 through 2001. Frazier was the touring drummer with

classic rock Classic rock is a US radio format which developed from the album-oriented rock (AOR) format in the early 1980s. In the United States, the classic rock format comprises rock music ranging generally from the mid-1960s through the mid 1990s, primar ...

singer

Eddie Money Edward Joseph Mahoney (March 21, 1949 – September 13, 2019), known professionally as Eddie Money, was an American singer and songwriter who, in the 1970s and 1980s, had eleven Top 40 songs, including "Baby Hold On", "Two Tickets to Parad ...

from 2003 through 2006, when he was approached to become the drummer of veteran rock band

Whitesnake Whitesnake are an English hard rock band formed in London in 1978. The group was originally put together as the backing band for singer David Coverdale, who had recently left Deep Purple. Though the band quickly developed into their own entit ...

. Frazier was called up by David Coverdale in May 2006, Coverdale took an instant liking to him. Frazier had done work extensive with Whitesnake's guitar player,

Doug Aldrich Doug Aldrich (born February 19, 1964) is an American hard rock guitarist. He founded the band Burning Rain with Keith St. John in 1998 and has played with Whitesnake, Dio, Lion, Hurricane, House of Lords, Bad Moon Rising and Revolution Saints ...

in the past. Frazier was with Whitesnake through December 2010 and appeared on their 2008 album

Good to Be Bad ''Good to Be Bad'' is the tenth studio album by Whitesnake released in April 2008. It was the band's first album of new studio material in a decade, since 1997's ''Restless Heart'', not including the four new tracks recorded for the 2006 live a ...

and toured with Whitesnake in support of the album. Before Whitesnake, Frazier worked with Eddie Money (2003–2006),

Edgar Winter Edgar Holland Winter (born December 28, 1946) is an American musician. He is a multi-instrumentalist, playing keyboards, guitar, saxophone, and percussion, as well as singing. His success peaked in the 1970s with his band the Edgar Winter Group ...

and TMG (Tak Matsumoto Group), which featured

Jack Blades Jack Martin Blades (born April 24, 1954) is an American rock musician. He has worked in the bands Rubicon, Night Ranger (as bassist and one of the lead vocalists), and Damn Yankees (as one of the founding members). He has also recorded with ...

and Eric Martin as well. Chris had worked with Whitesnake guitarist

on his solo albums, and with guitarist

Frazier is currently the drummer for the rock band Foreigner, having joined in September 2012.

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1967 births Living people Musicians from Maryland People from Bethesda, Maryland 20th-century American drummers American male drummers 20th-century American male musicians Tak Matsumoto Group members Whitesnake members {{US-drummer-stub