Meat Loaf’s Kids: Meet His Daughters Pearl and Amanda

Legendary rock singer Meat Loaf had a powerhouse voice and brought one of the best-selling album trilogies to life during his career. The “Bat Out of Hell” singer, who was well-loved by fans, friends and his supportive family, died on January 20, 2022. He is survived by his wife, Deborah Gillespie, and his two daughters, Pearl and Amanda.

“Our hearts are broken to announce that the incomparable Meat Loaf passed away tonight surrounded by his wife Deborah, daughters Pearl and Amanda and close friends,” a post on the performer’s Facebook read. “His amazing career spanned six decades that saw him sell over 100 Million albums worldwide and star in over 65 movies, including Fight Club, Focus, Rocky Horror Picture Show and Wayne’s World.”

Meat Loaf, whose real name was Michael Lee Aday, launched his career in the ‘60s with the band Meat Loaf Soul. He gained notoriety with his role in the musical Hair before releasing Stoney & Meat Loaf, his first Motown album. The Fight Club actor appeared in both the theater production of The Rocky Horror Picture Show and the successful film released in 1975. It was in 1977 that the world fell in love with his larger-than-life personality with his Bat Out of Hell album, selling more than 40 million copies.

“Bat Out of Hell remains one of the top 10 selling albums of all time,” the Facebook post continued. “We know how much he meant to so many of you and we truly appreciate all of the love and support as we move through this time of grief in losing such an inspiring artist and beautiful man.”

His second studio album, Dead Ringer, was released in 1981. That year, his only biological daughter, Amanda Aday, was born. Meat Loaf married his first wife, Leslie G. Edmunds, in 1979 and became the stepfather of her daughter, Pearl, from a previous relationship. The Brit Award winner always viewed Pearl as his own and shared a sweet sentiment about letting her sleep inside of a guitar case in an interview with Classic Rock Revisited.

“The new ones are all felt lined,” he said of the guitar cases that his daughter slept in. “We would put her blankets in there and she would take a nap. They were high enough on the sides and we would lock the wheels on it. We would be in the dressing room and she would go to sleep.”

Keep scrolling to find out more about Meat Loaf’s daughters Pearl and Amanda.

Pearl Aday

Pearl was born in 1975 with a true talent for music. She joined her stepfather’s band, The Neverland Express, in the early ‘90s as a backup vocalist. Pearl continued to tour with Meat Loaf until the early 2000s. The vocalist contributed her voice to Mötley Crüe’s Maximum Rock tour and started her own band, Pearl.

Pearl appeared with her famous stepfather on Don’t Forget the Lyrics in 2009. She married Anthrax guitarist Scott Ian in 2011. The couple had one child together, Revel Young Ian, who is also a drummer and guitarist.

Amanda Aday

Amanda followed in her father’s acting footsteps and landed a role of Dora Mae Dreifuss in the HBO series Carnivàle in 2003. She later snagged roles in Crazy in Alabama and her father’s 2000 film Meat Loaf: To Hell and Back. Some of her other film and television credits include ER, My Name Is Earl, Private Practice and Rizzoli & Isles.