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Deryck Jason Whibley (born 21 March 1980), nicknamed Bizzy D, is a Canadian musician, singer, songwriter and record producer, best known for his work as the lead vocalist, rhythm guitarist, keyboardist, main songwriter, producer, founder and only constant member of the
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band
Sum 41 Sum 41 is a Canadian rock band from Ajax, Ontario. Originally called Kaspir, the band was formed in 1996 and currently consists of Deryck Whibley (lead vocals, guitars, keyboards), Dave Baksh (lead guitar, backing vocals), Jason "Cone" McCas ...
.


Recording career


Sum 41

Whibley formed Sum 41 with drummer
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, bassist Richard Roy and vocalist Jon Marshall. They were originally called Kaspir, and were a
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cover band. In 1999, the band signed an international record deal with
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. The band released their debut album, "Half Hour of Power" in 2000, then ''
All Killer No Filler ''All Killer No Filler'' is the debut studio album by Canadian rock band Sum 41, released on May 8, 2001. It was certified platinum in the United States, Canada, and in the UK. Despite mixed reviews, the album was a commercial success, peaking ...
'' in 2001. The band achieved mainstream success with their first single from the album, "
Fat Lip "Fat Lip" is a song by Canadian rock band Sum 41. It is the fourth track on their debut album, ''All Killer No Filler'' (2001), and was released as the lead single in April 2001. It is the band's most successful single to date, topping the '' B ...
", which reached number-one on the '' Billboard Modern Rock Tracks'' chart and remains the band's most successful single to date. ''
All Killer No Filler ''All Killer No Filler'' is the debut studio album by Canadian rock band Sum 41, released on May 8, 2001. It was certified platinum in the United States, Canada, and in the UK. Despite mixed reviews, the album was a commercial success, peaking ...
'' was certified
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in the United States, Canada and in the UK. The band has since released six more studio albums: ''
Does This Look Infected? ''Does This Look Infected?'' is the second studio album by Canadian rock band Sum 41. It was released on November 26, 2002. It is their only album to feature a Parental Advisory label on the cover, despite the fact that other albums by the band ...
'' (2002), ''
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'' (2004), ''
Underclass Hero ''Underclass Hero'' is the fourth studio album by Canadian rock band Sum 41. It is the first of two albums by the band recorded without guitarist Dave Baksh since he left a year earlier to focus on Brown Brigade. The album was recorded as a thre ...
'' (2007), ''
Screaming Bloody Murder ''Screaming Bloody Murder'' is the fifth studio album by Canadian rock band Sum 41, released on March 29, 2011, after many delays. It is the band's second album produced by frontman Deryck Whibley. It is the band's last album to be released on ...
'' (2011), ''
13 Voices ''13 Voices'' is the sixth studio album by Canadian Rock music, rock band Sum 41, released on October 7, 2016. It is the first Sum 41 album to be released through independent label Hopeless Records after the band fulfilled their contract with majo ...
'' (2016), and '' Order in Decline'' (2019). The three albums before ''
Screaming Bloody Murder ''Screaming Bloody Murder'' is the fifth studio album by Canadian rock band Sum 41, released on March 29, 2011, after many delays. It is the band's second album produced by frontman Deryck Whibley. It is the band's last album to be released on ...
'' have been certified platinum in Canada. The band often performs more than 300 times each year and holds long global
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, most of which last more than a year. They have been nominated for seven
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and have won twice (
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in 2002 and Rock Album of the Year for ''Chuck'' in 2005). Their fifth studio album, ''
Screaming Bloody Murder ''Screaming Bloody Murder'' is the fifth studio album by Canadian rock band Sum 41, released on March 29, 2011, after many delays. It is the band's second album produced by frontman Deryck Whibley. It is the band's last album to be released on ...
'', was released on March 29, 2011. During the Screaming Bloody Murder Tour, the band added Deryck Whibley's cousin Matt Whibley on keyboard.


Solo work

Besides Sum 41, Whibley developed a professional career in the music industry as producer and manager. He was part of Bunk Rock
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, a music management and production company. He produced for No Warning with the company as well. Since parting ways with
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, he sold his part of the company in early 2005. During the Sum 41 hiatus in 2005 and 2006, he worked with
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on guitar and backing vocals for his album, '' Tommyland: The Ride'', and '' A Million in Prizes: The Anthology'' with
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. He worked as the producer of ''
We Have an Emergency The Operation M.D. (formerly The Operation) is a Canadian garage rock band created by Doctors Dynamite (Cone of Sum 41) and Rocco (Todd Morse of H2O) as a side project to their other bands. The band's debut album, ''We Have an Emergency'', w ...
'', the debut album by Sum 41 co-member
Jason McCaslin Jason "Cone" McCaslin (born 3 September 1980) is a Canadian musician, singer, songwriter, and record producer, serving as the bassist and backing vocalist of the band Sum 41. Early life McCaslin began playing bass at the age of 14, as a member ...
's side project
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In 2007, he mixed the debut album of the band Permanent Me. He was also involved with the
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album, ''
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'', where he produced and played guitar. Besides his musical career, he has worked on occasion as an actor. He portrayed the character Tony in the movie '' Dirty Love'', and himself as a guest character in ''
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''. In November 2007, Whibley suffered a herniated disc while drumming on the song "Pain for Pleasure". This happened while Sum 41 was on tour with
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, and the remainder of the ''Strength in Numbers Tour'' was canceled although Finger Eleven did travel to
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to play the show with
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and Inward Eye in replacement of
Sum 41 Sum 41 is a Canadian rock band from Ajax, Ontario. Originally called Kaspir, the band was formed in 1996 and currently consists of Deryck Whibley (lead vocals, guitars, keyboards), Dave Baksh (lead guitar, backing vocals), Jason "Cone" McCas ...
. On the Operation M.D.'s second album ''
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'', which was released on June 29, 2010, Whibley mixed one track entitled "Sick + Twisted". He also played keyboard and piano on the same track. He also joined the band live, playing guitar on this song, on December 21, 2010, at the
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in
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. Whibley contributed some guitar to
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's side project
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's second album ''
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'' which was released on September 21, 2010. He co-wrote the songs "Broken Pieces", "Over and Out" and "Lost in Reality" with 5 Seconds of Summer, which appeared on their ''
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'' EP. On February 18, 2022, Whibley released a collaboration track with 
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 called "Ruin My Life".


Instruments

Whibley uses a black customized '72
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live with his well-known red X's for decoration and good luck. He has also put out a signature guitar with
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, a sub-brand of Fender. The signature Squier comes in black and Olympic white, sports the two red X's and has one humbucking pickup in the bridge position, which is a
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Designed HB-102. It also has his signature "Deryck" written on the headstock. Whibley has used many
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such as the
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,
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, SG and a
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, which was his first guitar given to him by his mother, and has been used in some of the band's videos such as "
Fat Lip "Fat Lip" is a song by Canadian rock band Sum 41. It is the fourth track on their debut album, ''All Killer No Filler'' (2001), and was released as the lead single in April 2001. It is the band's most successful single to date, topping the '' B ...
" and " In Too Deep". According to the October 2007 issue of ''
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'' magazine, he also uses '59 Les Paul Reissues, '52
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Reissues,
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and Neumann mics, Plexi 100 watt
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Heads and Cabinets and Spectraflex cables.


Personal life

Whibley was born in the
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suburb of
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and raised in
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, and attended Southwood Park Public School. He grew up in a single parent household. Whibley has an interest in
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and has said he would like to design houses if he was not a musician. As a teenager, he attended Exeter High School. It was there that he and his bandmates were discovered while playing at their War of the Bands. In high school, Whibley was the captain of his basketball team. In 2003, Whibley dated Hilton Hotels heiress and reality TV celebrity
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. Whibley married fellow singer
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in 2006. The couple occasionally performed together and have spoken about their relationship in interviews. Whibley and Lavigne began dating when she was 19 years old, after being friends since she was 17. The wedding was held on July 15, 2006. About 110 guests attended the wedding, which was held at a private estate in
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. After a little over three years of marriage Lavigne filed for divorce on October 9, 2009 and the divorce was finalised on November 16, 2010. On August 30, 2015, Whibley married model Ariana Cooper in
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. They have one child, born in March 2020.


Health issues

Whibley has chronic back pain due to a series of back injuries, starting with a slipped disc during a 2007 concert.whibley
/ref> On August 5, 2010, Whibley was hospitalized after he was attacked in a bar in Japan late at night by three unknown individuals. After an MRI scan, it was revealed that Whibley herniated a disc in his back for the fourteenth time. Although advised against performing, Whibley rejoined the band on August 8 in Osaka for the
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. The back injuries, alongside severe anxiety, caused Whibley to self-medicate with alcohol. Whibley again injured his back in April 2013, causing him to miss shows. On May 17, 2014, Whibley announced that, a month earlier, he had been hospitalized for alcoholism with severe liver and kidney damage.


Discography


With Sum 41

* ''
Half Hour of Power ''Half Hour of Power'' is the debut extended play by Canadian rock band Sum 41. It was released on June 27, 2000 on Big Rig Records, a subsidiary of Island Records (United States), and Aquarius Records (Canada). The cover features the band's th ...
'' (2000) * ''
All Killer No Filler ''All Killer No Filler'' is the debut studio album by Canadian rock band Sum 41, released on May 8, 2001. It was certified platinum in the United States, Canada, and in the UK. Despite mixed reviews, the album was a commercial success, peaking ...
'' (2001) * ''
Does This Look Infected? ''Does This Look Infected?'' is the second studio album by Canadian rock band Sum 41. It was released on November 26, 2002. It is their only album to feature a Parental Advisory label on the cover, despite the fact that other albums by the band ...
'' (2002) * ''
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'' (2004) * ''
Underclass Hero ''Underclass Hero'' is the fourth studio album by Canadian rock band Sum 41. It is the first of two albums by the band recorded without guitarist Dave Baksh since he left a year earlier to focus on Brown Brigade. The album was recorded as a thre ...
'' (2007) * ''
Screaming Bloody Murder ''Screaming Bloody Murder'' is the fifth studio album by Canadian rock band Sum 41, released on March 29, 2011, after many delays. It is the band's second album produced by frontman Deryck Whibley. It is the band's last album to be released on ...
'' (2011) * ''
13 Voices ''13 Voices'' is the sixth studio album by Canadian Rock music, rock band Sum 41, released on October 7, 2016. It is the first Sum 41 album to be released through independent label Hopeless Records after the band fulfilled their contract with majo ...
'' (2016) * '' Order in Decline'' (2019) * ''Heaven and Hell'' (TBA)


References


External links


Deryck Whibley
s official site
Sum 41
s official site *
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s official Twitter account {{DEFAULTSORT:Whibley, Deryck Living people Canadian expatriate musicians in the United States Canadian male film actors Canadian punk rock singers Canadian rock guitarists Canadian male guitarists Canadian record producers Canadian singer-songwriters Musicians from Toronto People from Scarborough, Toronto Pop punk singers Rhythm guitarists Sum 41 members Alternative metal guitarists Avril Lavigne 21st-century Canadian guitarists 21st-century Canadian male singers 20th-century Canadian guitarists 20th-century Canadian male singers 1980 births