With first wife Meg, Jack White leapt into prominence with the White Stripes breakthrough album White Blood Cells, and the single Fell in Love with a Girl in 2001.
White (real name John Anthony Gillis, he took Meg's surname as his own) has never been a one trick pony though.
He started out as a drummer but then developed serious guitar playing skills.
More recently his solo albums and his musicologist approach to traditional and historic blues recordings have been his focus.
He is particularly enamoured with 12 string blues guitarist Blind Willie McTell and the legendary Son House, who was rediscovered in the 1960s to enjoy a second recording career decades after the first.