Life & family
Brad Wilk is an American musician, actor, and activist. He is the drummer for rock band Rage Against the Machine, whose other members are Tim Commerford, Zach de la Rocha, and Tom Morello, and for rock supergroup Audioslave, whose other members were Commerford, Chris Cornell, and Morello. He was also a member of supergroup Sound City Players, with Dave Grohl, Taylor Hawkins, Rami Jaffee, Paul McCartney, Stevie Nicks, Krist Novoselic, Pat Smear, Rick Springfield, and Corey Taylor; and rap rock supergroup Prophets of Rage, with B-Real, Commerford, Chuck D, and Morello.
He is married to musician Selene Vigil-Wilk.
Brad is said to be of German Jewish and Russian Jewish descent. Some of his family were refugees from the Holocaust.
He recited the Hebrew blessing for the Sabbath before a concert crowd, when Rage Against the Machine played Israel in 2000.