J.D. Fortune, the singer who won the TV talent contest Rock Star: INXS and became the group's lead singer, has revealed that he is rejoining the group after straitening out his life.
Fortune won the show in 2005 and went on to a successful tour with the group, but the pressure of his new prominence led to both physical and mental problems. At the end of the tour, he left the band (or was tossed out by the band...stories vary) but has gotten it together after taking care of his drug abuse.
The singer told Spinner.com "If you went, 'Hey, here's the keys to a legendary rock band, we want you to drive it for a little while,' anybody in their right mind would go, 'Rock 'n' roll, man! This is great.'
"But when you start driving too fast, you realize, 'Holy sitt, I can run out of gas if I'm pushing the pedal to the metal all the time.'
"I feel like the detour was the whole Rock Star: INXS show; the touring, all that pressure, all the expectations - that was the detour that took the focus away from where we needed to be as a band in INXS, and where I needed to be as an individual."
The group has dates in Australia later this month and in early February and are returning to Chile for the first time in seven years on February 18. Their new album, Original Sin, will get a U.S. release on February 22.
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