Anthony Kiedis (November 1, 1962, Grand Rapids) is an American singer-songwriter who is best known as the vocalist of the Red Hot Chili Peppers. Kiedis along with Flea, Hillel Slovak, and Jack Irons played their first gig together in 1983 as "Tony Flow and the Miraculously Majestic Masters of Mayhem", before progressing as a band and changing their name to the Red Hot Chili Peppers.