The life and music of

Extreme is an american rock band that achieved popularity in the late 1980s and early 1990s.

Their influences are easily apparent from their music's multi-part vocal harmonies and electric guitar tone and instrumental techniques. The band lends the listener a sound that blends the genre of glam metal with the shredding guitar work from thrash metal. Being asked about their style, Extreme categorized their music as 'Funky Metal'.

One of his vocalist is Gary Cherone and the guitarist is Nuno Bettencourt. They two began writing songs together and played numerous shows in the Boston area. The begining was pretty difficult for them, but soon they began to be a famous rock group.

Cherone grew up in Malden. He raised in a middle-class Catholic family, Cherone was quiet, creative, and athletic. As a youth he dreamed of a career as a basketball player until he suffered a serious knee injury.In his teenage years Cherone turned to singing in local bands and was heavily influenced by the reigning rock frontmen of the day.

A few years later, Cherone and The Dream appeared on the early MTV program Basement Tapes, a show in which the viewing audience "voted" for one of two competing amateur music videos submitted by unsigned artists.

After several broadcast the group was no longer anonymous.
In 1985 began writing their own material.Although well received by the rock press,the acoustic ballad "More Than Words" inrose up in the early spring of 1991.That ballad is his famous song, and in my opinion is so moving