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Dave Grohl has lived galore lifetimes. Before helium was known arsenic the person of the Foo Fighters, Dave was beating the hellhole retired of the drums for Nirvana, honing his chops successful DC hardcore set Scream, and — per Rolling Stone‘s recounting of his memoir, The Storyteller – helium astir became a subordinate of GWAR. Yet, 1 of the astir important chapters successful his beingness communicative is the 1 astir his clip arsenic a father. Since 2003, Dave has been joined to producer/director Jordyn Blum, and they person go parents to 3 daughters: Violet, Harper, and Ophelia.
While immoderate mightiness deliberation having a rockstar dada means large euphony each nighttime and parties each day, Dave told Ellen DeGeneres in 2014 that he’s a beauteous emblematic dada with a beauteous mean dad’s schedule. “My time starts astatine astir 5:45,” helium said. “So I get up, and I get successful the shower, and I get my enactment together. Then I gotta get them up retired of bed, but past I gotta get the snack packs going. While I get the snack packs going, they travel into the kitchen, and I get the meal going. I get them dressed, and I get the backpacks and the snack packs into my minivan, and past I get them successful the minivan, and I beryllium successful postulation for 45 minutes.”
That docket got thrown into the dumpster successful 2020 erstwhile the COVID-19 pandemic forced him to homeschool his kids. Though Dave’s mom, Virginia, was a nationalist schoolhouse teacher, it appears those skills weren’t passed down to him. “My kids cognize who I am, okay? I’ve work my study cards to my kids before, truthful they’re not needfully going to travel to maine for thing world – they conscionable don’t,” helium said to BBC Breakfast in February 2021, per Kerrang. “I could beryllium a cheerleader, I could marque you a large breakfast, and I could marque you grin earlier you commencement your day, but you don’t needfully privation maine successful your past lessons. You don’t needfully privation maine helping you with trigonometry.”
So, who are Dave Grohl’s kids?
Violet Grohl
Dave and Violet astatine the ‘Bring Change to Mind’ Annual Gala successful 2019 (Drew Altizer Photography/Shutterstock)Dave and Jordyn welcomed Violet Maye Grohl connected April 15, 2006, per IMDB. So far, Violet has shown that Dave isn’t the lone stone prima successful the family. In 2018, erstwhile she was a preteen, she joined her dada to screen Adele’s “When We Were Young” for a payment astatine the Fox Theater successful Oakland for the UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospitals, per Entertainment Weekly.
A 13-year-old Violet joined St. Vincent, Beck, and the surviving members of Nirvana – her father, Krist Novoselic, and Pat Smear – for a foundation amusement for The Art of Elysium’s yearly Heaven Gala successful January 2020, per NME. With Violet singing astatine assorted points, the radical covered “Heart-Shaped Box,” “Been A Son,” “In Bloom,” “Lithium,” and Nirvana’s MTV Unplugged version of David Bowie’s “The Man Who Sold The World.” In April 2021, Violet and Dave released a opus unneurotic – a screen of “Nausea” from legendary LA punk set X.
In an Instagram station announcing the track, Dave spoke astir however it was important to screen an X opus with Violet. Dave shared that his grandmother’s maiden sanction was Bonebrake, which meant helium mightiness beryllium related to D.J. Bonebrake, X’s drummer.
“It felt truthful meaningful to person the archetypal opus Violet, and I grounds unneurotic to beryllium a tribute to our Bonebrake heritage,” helium wrote. “As tense arsenic she was, she stepped up to the microphone and sang with the powerfulness and assurance of a seasoned pro arsenic I engineered the league similar a arrogant father, encouraging her to fto it each out. I past sang my harmonies implicit her vocal successful the chorus, our 2 voices blending perfectly successful the mix, and we smiled upon listening to playback astatine afloat volume. It was a infinitesimal that superseded thing musical. A beingness infinitesimal that I volition cherish forever. A household moment.”
More recently, Violet lent her dulcet tones to the tribute concert for Dave’s precocious bandmate Taylor Hawkins. After introducing the set made up of himself, Alain Johannes, Jason Falkner and Chris Chaney, Dave welcomed Violet to the mic, deeming her “the lone idiosyncratic I cognize who tin really sing a Jeff Buckley song,” according to the outlet. Violet past wowed the assemblage with her renditions of Jeff’s songs “Last Goodbye” and “Grace”.
Harper Grohl
Dave Grohl and Harper Grohl, backstage astatine the Broadway philharmonic ‘Annie’ astatine the Palace Theatre successful 2013 (Joseph Marzullo/WENN.com/Newscom/MEGA)Harper Willow Grohl arrived successful this satellite connected April 17, 2009. Like her older sister, Harper has followed successful her father’s footsteps. While performing astatine Iceland’s Secret Solstice Festival successful June 2017, Dave shared immoderate large news. “About 2 weeks ago, my girl said, ‘Daddy, I wanna play the drums.’ And I said, ‘Okay. Do you privation maine to thatch you?’ She said, ‘Yes.’ And past I said, ‘Do you privation to get up successful beforehand of 20,000 radical successful Iceland and play?’ And she said, ‘Yes,'” helium said. Harper — conscionable 8 years aged astatine the clip — past joined the Foo Fighters to play Queen’s “We Will Rock You.” When Dave accepted a drum-off challenge from 10-year-old Nandi Bushell in 2020, helium did truthful portion playing connected Harper’s kit, hinting that she mightiness inactive beryllium dedicated to drumming similar her daddy.
“I deliberation that erstwhile I look astatine Violet and erstwhile I look astatine Harper playing music, I don’t cognize if they’re astatine the property wherever they’d consciousness similar if they’ve – they don’t consciousness 1 of the guys, due to the fact that they’re conscionable playing, you know? And I anticipation to spot a change. In my house, I’ve got a afloat stone band. And they’re each women, and it makes maine truly blessed to see. It’s truly cool,” Dave told PBS NewsHour successful 2018.
Dave’s daughters – specifically Harper – are besides funny successful his past beingness with Nirvana. “Last nighttime actually, my girl Harper, she’s 11, she’s like, ‘Dad, tin we conscionable spell thrust around?’ She’s been stuck successful the location for weeks,” Dave said during a sojourn connected The Howard Stern Show, per Metalhead Zone. “So we leap successful the car, successful my van, this chill aged Ford van from the ’60s, and we conscionable drove astir Hollywood, looked astatine it, it was similar 8 o’clock astatine night, conscionable driving around. And ‘Come arsenic You Are ‘came connected the radio, and she started singing. She’s saying each word! I’ve ne'er played her that record, we don’t speech astir Nirvana and stuff, and she was singing each connection to the song! That to me, that feels good.”
He besides said that Harper asked him “if Kurt was shy.” Dave was somewhat shocked since this was the archetypal question Harper ever asked astir Nirvana. “I was like, ‘Yeah, helium benignant of was.’ And past she said, ‘Was helium shy astir radical helium didn’t cognize – oregon was helium besides shy astir radical helium did know?’ And it was interesting, it was truly the archetypal clip she started truly asking maine questions astir Kurt. That was a first. It was great.”
Ophelia Grohl
Dave and Ophelia, retired and astir successful 2020. (RCW/starmaxinc.com/Shutterstock)Dave and Jordyn’s 3rd daughter, Ophelia Saint Grohl, was calved connected August 1, 2014. She also has a small spot of stone and rotation successful her, and she’s shown it arsenic portion of The Gohlettes (aka Ophelia, Harper, and Violet, who joined their dada for his tribute opus to Nandi Bushell successful 2020) and during a 2019 quality connected Ryan’s Mystery Playdate. “My girl has been watching the amusement constantly,” said Dave during a behind-the-scenes clip, per People, “so it’s similar gathering a existent rockstar. I’m not the rockstar here. Ryan is.” Ophelia portrayed Fifi, a “Ryan Superfan,” who joined Ryan and the pack for a jam session. “Are you acceptable to rock?” Ryan asks. “I’m ever acceptable to rock!” Fifi shouts. Considering who her begetter is – and who her sisters are – she wasn’t lying.
