Eddie Jerome Vedder was born on December 23, 1964 (age 58 years), in Evanston, Illinois, United States. He is a popular American singer, musician, and songwriter best known as the lead vocalist and one of four guitarists of the rock band Pearl Jam. He also appeared as a guest vocalist in Temple of the Dog, the one-off tribute band dedicated to the late singer Andrew Wood.
Why did Eddie Vedder change his name?
Eddie Vedder was born Edward Louis Severson III in the Chicago suburb of Evanston, Illinois, on December 23, 1964, to Karen Lee Vedder and Edward Louis Severson Jr. His parents divorced in 1965 when Vedder was an infant. His mother soon remarried a man named Peter Mueller. Vedder was raised believing that Mueller was his biological father, and he went by the name Edward Mueller for a time.
Vedder dropped out of high school because of the pressure of work and school and decided to join the rest of his family in Chicago, and at this time he changed his name to Vedder, his mother’s maiden name.
