While living in Dorset, aged 11, Doherty began playing guitar, originally in an attempt to impress a female classmate, Emily Baker. Doherty was the second of the three children. He grew up at a number of army garrisons across Britain and continental Europe, with his sisters, AmyJo and Emily. His paternal grandfather was an Irish immigrant from Cheekpoint in County Waterford his maternal grandfather was Jewish, the son of immigrants, Moise Michels and Chana Peress, from France and Russia. His father, Peter John Doherty, MBE, was a major in the Royal Signals, while his mother, Jacqueline Michels, was a lance-corporal in Queen Alexandra's Royal Army Nursing Corps. Pete Doherty was born in Hexham, Northumberland, to a military family.
His other musical projects are indie band Babyshambles and Peter Doherty and the Puta Madres. He is best known for being co-frontman of the Libertines, which he formed with Carl Barât in 1997.
Peter Doherty (born 12 March 1979) is an English musician, songwriter, actor, poet, writer and artist.
