Name: Jon Franck Bongiovi.
Nickname: Captain Kid.
Birthdate: March 2,1962.
Birthplace: Perth Amboy, NJ.
Grew up in: Sayreville, NJ.
High school: Sayreville War Memorial High School.
Hair color: Light Brown.
Eyes color: Time color.
Mother: Carol Sharkey Bongiovi.
Father: John Bongiovi.
Brothers: Matthew (Matt) & Anthony (Tony).
Marital Status: Married to Dorothea Hurley (April 29, 1989); daughter Stephanie Rose (born May 31, 1993), son Jesse James Louis (born Feb 19, 1995).
Food: Mc. Donals burguers.
Drink: Coctel Sam's.
Color: Purple & red.
Hobbies:Baseball, sleep, cars, pizza, football (NY Giants), collects harmonicas & antiquities.
Hate: Cats.
Other bands: Starz (the first one that changes it name to Raze), ACE (Atlantic City Expressway), The Rest, The Lechers, Jon Bongiovi & the wild ones.
Other jobs:Sold shoes & burguers, washed cars & was cadet.
Perfume: Brut.
Influences: The Babys, Bruce Springteen, Aerosmith, Van Halen, Alice Cooper, Led Zeppelin & Rod Stewart.
First disk: Blood on the tracks (Bob Dylan).
First recital:The Doobie Brothers, Heart & Rush.
Prefered artists: Joe Lynn Turner, ZZ Top & Little Steven.
Actor: Clint Eastwood.
Favourite songs:The Oak tree (Morris Day), Dragging medown (Boomtown Rats)& Endlessly (Joe Lynn Turner)
Instruments played: Guitar, piano & harmonica.
Curosities and comments:-At the age of 7 he was given a guitar wich he threw down stairs
-When he was 13 he drank alcohol and smoked marihuana.
-When he was 14 he made love with Bertha, a fat woman of more than 200kg., who, he says, taugh him everything about sex.
-In 1987, he was offered a part in the film "Footlose" but he refused it because he had to have his hair cut.
-Contrary to what was always said, he didn't give the group the name "Bon Jovi". Derek Shulman from Polygram U.S.A. did.
Known couples:Dorothea Hurley (November 23rd, 1962) today his wife. They married on Thursday 29th of April, 1989 in Las Vegas. They met at High School and she always helped him to copy in the exams. During their engagement they quarelled a lot but she always forgive him his infidelities. She always helped him and was with him when nobody knew him.
In 1985 when they quarelled he went out with Diane Hane