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Doogie White
Doogie with Tank at Sweden Rock Festival 2009
Background information
Born	(1960-03-07)7 March 1960 (age 65) Motherwell, North Lanarkshire, Scotland
Genres	Hard rock,heavy metal,power metal,neoclassical metal
Occupation	Singer
Years active	1984–present
Website	doogiewhite.com

Douglas "Doogie"White (born 7 March 1960) is a Scottish rock vocalist who currently sings for La Paz. He has also notably sung forRitchie Blackmore's Rainbow,Michael Schenker,Yngwie Malmsteen's Rising Force,Praying Mantis,Tank andAlcatrazz.

White was born inMotherwell. He formedLa Paz with guitaristChic McSherry in 1984, playing around Scotland for four years and releasing two albums oncassette,^[1] before in 1988 joining melodic rock combo Midnight Blue, cutting one album (released only in Japan by Toshiba-EMI's Zero Corporation).

A trip to Japan in 1991 singing withPraying Mantis in aNWOBHM revival tour followed.^[2]

After a demo tape forwarded toRitchie Blackmore's management sat in a box for a few years,Candice Night discovered it and presented it to Blackmore when he was looking for singers to audition for a solo project that would later be calledRainbow. Consequently, White was asked to audition, subsequently joining the band in 1994.^[3] He had also auditioned for metal bandsPink Cream 69 andIron Maiden, losing out toWolfsbane'sBlaze Bayley.

To indicate how quickly his fortunes had changed in the year since meeting Blackmore, when Rainbow played theLabbatt's Apollo in Hammersmith, London in November 1995, he joked with the audience that the last time he was at the venue only a few years before, he was selling hotdogs in the lobby.

Just before the Rainbow job, White had been busy laying down tracks withCozy Powell andNeil Murray for a solo Powell project.

After the end of Rainbow in 1997, he then worked with former Midnight Blue guitarist Alex Dickson with the intention of securing a solo deal. Sessions on several tribute releases were next, theWhitesnake tributeSnakebites (2000), and several tracks included on666 Number of the Beast (2004) a two-volume tribute to Iron Maiden out on Deadline. White also guested onNikolo Kotzev's conceptualNostradamus 2001 release.

A contribution toRoyal Hunt bassist Steen Morgensen's solo projectArrival (under the moniker Cornerstone) was released in late 2000. A further series of albums were produced this time with White's creative input. White also joinedYngwie Malmsteen's Rising Force, touring through South America in late 2001, whileAttack (2002) was White's first studio effort with the Swede.

Once Upon Our Yesterdays (2003) was the next Cornerstone album, and a set of dates for the band across Europe marked their live debut. In 2003, White was once again hired byPraying Mantis to provide vocals for half of the songs of their albumThe Journey Goes On.

In 2005, White fronted another Malmsteen opus, titledUnleash the Fury. In this year, he also recorded an album with guitarist Bill Liesegang under the Liesegang/White moniker. He also put together a part-time band withMostly Autumn personnel monikered White Noise. A DVD from their support stint in the UK withUriah Heep featured a live airing of "Tarot Woman" as well as other Rainbow tracks.

in July 2007 he auditioned to lead sing for the israeli projectAmaseffer but lost the part toMats Levén

In 2007, the fourth Cornerstone album,Two Tales of One Tomorrow was released. Later the same year, White replacedTony Martin as the frontman of the German band Empire. Empire released their fourth albumChasing Shadows in November, with White handling all vocal duties. On 26 February 2008, White announced on his website that he would no longer be a member of Yngwie Malmsteen's Rising Force.

On 20 December 2008, White was announced to be the new singer forNWOBHM bandTank.^[4] Tank's first album with White as lead singer is titledWar Machine and was released in October 2010. In 2009, White was performing with La Paz again, as well as Tank. He has also recorded the vocals for an English version of the latest album by Argentinian rockersRata Blanca.^[5]

He performed withJon Lord twice, stepping in for Lord's regular singerSteve Balsamo. On 1 September 2009, White sang vocal parts in Lord'sConcerto for Group and Orchestra at the opening night of the Fall Arts Fest in Plovdiv, Bulgaria. On 23 June 2010 he performed with Lord again, this time in Luxembourg during the Classic Rock Night with Big Band Opus 78.^[6]

In 2010, White participated in a tribute album titledMister Bolin's Late Night Revival, a compilation of 17 previously unreleased tracks written byTommy Bolin prior to his death in 1976. The CD included other artists such asHiFi Superstar,Eric Martin,Troy Luccketta,Jeff Pilson,Randy Jackson,Rachel Barton,Rex Carroll,Derek St. Holmes,Kimberley Dahme, andThe 77s. A percentage of the proceeds from this project will benefit the Jackson Recovery Centers.^[7]

In 2011, White released an album with original material with German band Demon's Eye, titledThe Stranger Within. White released his first solo album, titledAs Yet Untitled in October 2011. He also completed an album of new material and reworked old songs with his first band La Paz. This album was calledGranite and was released in February 2012.^[8] Tank released a second album with White on vocals,War Nation, in 2012.

A La Paz album with all new songs titledThe Dark and the Light was released in May 2013. White has recently recorded an album withMichael Schenker titledBridge the Gap, to be released in November 2013.^[9] He recorded an album withVinny Appice,Marco Mendoza and Iggy Gwadera in 2014.^[10] In 2015, White released another album with Demon's Eye, titledUnder The Neon and collaborated in the second Stardust Reverie Project album titledProclamation of Shadows singing the tunes "410 Chelsea Street" and "Bring me the Hat of the Wizard from the West" (Doogie appears in the video made for this song).

White recorded two albums with Michael Schenker under the Temple of Rock moniker. Schenker reinvented his band as Michael Schenker Fest in 2017, which included various vocalists who had previously sung for it, including White. In 2020, White joinedAlcatrazz, replacing original vocalistGraham Bonnet, with whom he had been part of Michael Schenker Fest. His most recent project is an album withPersuader guitarist Emil Norberg under the name Long Shadows Dawn.

• La Paz (1984–1988, 2009–present)
• Midnight Blue (1994)
• Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow (1994–1997)
• Chain (1997)
• Cornerstone (2000–2007)
• Yngwie Malmsteen's Rising Force (2002–2007)
• Liesegang / White (2005)
• The Company of Snakes (2005)
• Empire (2007)
• Solo (2008–present)
• Tank (2008–2014)
• Rata Blanca (2009–2010)
• Demon's Eye (2011–2015)
• Michael Schenker's Temple of Rock (2011–2016)
• WAMI (2014)
• Michael Schenker Fest (2018–2020)
• Alcatrazz (2020–2024)

• Gary Hughes:Once and Future King Part II (2003)
• Takayoshi Ohmura:Nowhere to Go (2004)
• Takayoshi Ohmura:Emotions in Motion (2007)
• Anphoria's Empire: Single"Believe in the Mothercorn"^{[permanent dead link‍]} (2009) (Story about this song)
• Sebastien:Tears of White Roses (2010)
• Roadway:ROADWAY (2011)

Cornerstone is ahard rock band formed by formerRainbow vocalist Doogie White^[11] and formerRoyal Hunt bassist Steen Mogensen.^[12] Other musicians have been added to that core including guitarists Jacob Kjaer, Kasper Damgaard and drummer Allan Sorensen. The band has put out four studio albums and one live double compact disc release.

• Arrival (2000)
• Human Stain (2002)
• Once Upon Our Yesterdays (2003)
• In Concert (2005)
• Two Tales of One Tomorrow (2007)^[13]

• White Noise:In the Hall of the Mountain King (2004)
• Deep Purple Rock Review 1969–1972 (2004)
• Inside Black Sabbath (2004)
• Inside Rainbow (2004)
• M 3:Rough an' Ready (2006)
• Guitar Gods – Ritchie Blackmore (2007)
• Rainbow:Black Masquerade – Rockpalast '95 (2013)

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