Iggy Pop is an American singer, songwriter, musician, and occasional actor. He is considered an influential innovator of punk rock, hard rock, and other styles of rock music. Pop began calling himself "Iggy" after his first band in high school (for which he was drummer), The Iguanas. He was lead singer/songwriter of influential protopunk band The Stooges and became known for his outrageous and unpredictable stage antics.

Pop's popularity has ebbed and flowed throughout the course of his solo career. His best-known songs include "Lust for Life", "Real Wild Child", "Candy" (a duet with Kate Pierson of The B-52's), "China Girl" and "The Passenger".

Iggy Pop was born James Newell Osterberg, Jr. in Muskegon, Michigan, the son of Louella (née Christensen) and James Newell Osterberg, Sr., a former high school English teacher and baseball coach at Fordson High School in Dearborn, Michigan. Osterberg was raised in a trailer park in Ypsilanti, Michigan. He is of Irish and English descent on his father's side, and of Norwegian and Danish ancestry on his mother's. His father was adopted by a Swedish American family and took on their surname (Österberg).

Discography:

With The Stooges
1969 – The Stooges
1970 – Fun House
1973 – Raw Power
2007 – The Weirdness

With James Williamson
1977 – Kill City

Solo
1977 – The Idiot
1977 – Lust for Life
1979 – New Values
2003 – Skull Ring
2009 – Préliminaires
2011 – Angle of the Dangle

Pop lives in the Cayman Islands. He has one son, Eric Benson. He was married twice: to Wendy Weissberg (for several weeks in 1968, the marriage was annulled shortly thereafter) and to Suchi Asano (1985-1999).