Anthony Kiedis is of mixed ethnicity and has English, Irish, French, and Dutch origins.
Anthony Kiedis, Slovak, and Flea formed a new band called Tony Flow and the Miraculously Majestic Masters of Mayhem. The band’s name was changed to Red Hot Chili Peppers.
Anthony Kiedis’s band got their big breakthrough with the album ‘Blood Sugar Sex Magik’ which peaked at No. 3 on the Billboard Hot 200 and went on to be accredited multi-Platinum in the U.S., U.K., Canada and Australia.
Anthony Kiedis received the George and Ira Gershwin Award for Lifetime Musical Achievement, presented at the UCLA Spring Sing on May 16, 2015.
Anthony Kiedis and the Red Hot Chili Peppers released their eleventh studio album, The Getaway, on June 17, 2016. Anthony Kiedis and Flea were executive producers of the 2014 film Low Down.
In June 2015, Anthony Kiedis, and his son Everly Bear, Cher and Willow Smith, were named the “new faces” of Marc Jacobs Fall 2015 ad campaign.
On October 6, 2004, Anthony Kiedis published a memoir, Scar Tissue, which he co-wrote with author Larry Sloman.