Born on May 8, 1953, in Amsterdam, Alexander Arthur Van Halen, better known as Alex Van Halen, grew up surrounded by music. The son of Jan van Halen, a talented jazz saxophonist and clarinetist, and Eugenia van Beers, an Indo woman from the Dutch East Indies, Alex's early years were steeped in rich cultural influences. His family lived in Nijmegen, in the Netherlands, before moving to Pasadena, California, in 1962, where Alex and his younger brother...