The founder of the shock-rock movement, the king of horror, Alice Cooper was born into a family of hereditary clergymen of the Protestant church. The ancestors of Vincent Damon Fournier's parents — Ella Mae and Ethera Moroni Fournier — were French Huguenots who had once settled in the city of Detroit.
The boy was born on February 4, 1948. He received his primary education in the Lutheran Church of Detroit. When Vincent was 13 years old, his family moved to the city of Phoenix, where he graduated from high school. Already in childhood, Vincent discovered a great love of art. Together with a friend, he studied the work of Salvador Dali. At school, the boy held an active social position and wrote feuilletons to the school newspaper. Together with his classmates, dreaming of the fame of "The Beatles", he creates a teenage rock band that immediately became famous for its unusual shock stage techniques.