Dave Grohl has lived many lifetimes. Before he was known as the leader of the Foo Fighters, Dave was beating the hell out of the drums for Nirvana, honing his chops in DC hardcore band Scream, and — per Rolling Stone‘s recounting of his memoir, The Storyteller – he almost became a member of GWAR. Yet, one of the most significant chapters in his life story is the one about his time as a father. Since 2003, Dave has been married to producer and director Jordyn Blum, and they have become parents to three daughters: Violet, Harper, and Ophelia.
Dave told Ellen DeGeneres in 2014 that he’s a pretty typical dad with a pretty normal dad’s schedule. “My day starts at about 5:45,” he said. “So I get up, and I get in the shower, and I get my act together. Then I gotta get them up out of bed, but then I gotta get the snack packs going. While I get the snack packs going, they come into the kitchen, and I get the breakfast going. I get them dressed, and I get the backpacks and the snack packs into my minivan, and then I get them in the minivan, and I sit in traffic for 45 minutes.”
However, it seems the musician hasn’t fully left his rockstar days behind, as he recently revealed on Instagram that he welcomed a baby girl with an undisclosed woman, despite being married to Blum for 21 years.
So, who are Dave Grohl’s four kids?
Dave and Jordyn welcomed Violet Maye Grohl on April 15, 2006, per IMDB. So far, Violet has shown that Dave isn’t the only rock star in the family. In 2018, when she was a preteen, she joined her dad to cover Adele’s “When We Were Young” for a benefit at the Fox Theater in Oakland for the UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospitals, per Entertainment Weekly.
A 13-year-old Violet joined St. Vincent, Beck, and the surviving members of Nirvana – her father, Krist Novoselic, and Pat Smear – for a charity show for The Art of Elysium’s annual Heaven Gala in January 2020, per NME. With Violet singing at various points, the group covered “Heart-Shaped Box,” “Been A Son,” “In Bloom,” “Lithium,” and Nirvana’s MTV Unplugged version of David Bowie’s “The Man Who Sold The World.” In April 2021, Violet and Dave released a song together – a cover of “Nausea” from legendary LA punk band X.
In an Instagram post announcing the track, Dave spoke about how it was important to cover an X song with Violet. Dave shared that his grandmother’s maiden name was Bonebrake, which meant he might be related to D.J. Bonebrake, X’s drummer.
