During an era when MTV was flooded with big mullets, squealing guitar solos and
fist-pumping power ballads, White Lion joined the hard rock, hair metal party
with their hit album 'Pride' and classic 1980s anthems 'Wait' and 'When the
Children Cry'. Front man Mike Tramp had originally grown up in Denmark listening
to his mother's Elvis Presley, Roy Orbison and Bob Dylan records and made his
name as a national pop starlet with the group Mabel who competed in the
Eurovision Song Contest in 1978.
Moving to New York to pursue his rock and roll dreams, he befriended talented
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