Nikki Sixx, born Frank Feranna, grew up in Seattle and moved to Los Angeles at the age of seventeen. There, in 1981, he became the bassist for Mötley Crüe, the legendary rock band he started with his friend Tommy Lee. Today he is the bestselling author of The Heroin Diaries and This Is Gonna Hurt and a coauthor of the Mötley Crüe book The Dirt. Nikki Sixx is also a nationally syndicated radio host, solo artist, photographer, film maker, and still-loyal member of the Crüe.
