Starr was born to a French mother and American father. He learned to play guitar by ear, copying the riffs of
R&B records. The song Starr sent in for the compilation was "Children of the Storm". After only two albums,
Virgin Steele of 1981 and
Guardians of the Flame of 1982, Starr left Virgin Steele in 1983 because of musical differences with the band's front man and other main songwriter David DeFeis. In 1984, Starr started his solo recording career with the album
Out of the Darkness, featuring former
Riot vocalist
Rhett Forrester, members of
The Rods, and former
Rainbow drummer
Gary Driscoll. It was released in Europe by
Music for Nations and was picked as one of the best albums of the year by the music magazines
Kerrang! and
Metal Forces. Starr changed the name of his band to
Jack Starr's Burning Starr and between 1984 and 1989 he produced albums, both solo and with the band. The music of those albums was classic American eighties heavy metal, a style between
Poison and
Metallica. In 2006, Starr founded the Jack Starr Blues Band. In the following years, Starr once again assembled a group of musicians for a new incarnation of
Burning Starr, which performed at the
Magic Circle Festival 2008 and released the album
Defiance on the
Manowar's label
Magic Circle Music in 2009. In 2011, they released
Land of the Dead with Limb Music. The albums includes ex-Manowar guest musicians
Ross the Boss and
David Shankle. The band played at the 2013
Keep It True festival and recorded a DVD. ==Discography==