Editing Dee Snider (section)

==Early life==
Born in [[Astoria, Queens]], New York City, on March 15, 1955,<ref name="Tayler, Letta" /><ref>{{Cite web |title=Dee Snider Songs, Albums, Reviews, Bio & More ... |url=https://www.allmusic.com/artist/mn0000226299 |access-date=2024-06-07 |website=AllMusic |language=en}}</ref> Snider was raised in nearby [[Freeport, New York]] and [[Baldwin, Nassau County, New York|Baldwin, New York]],<ref name="Tayler, Letta" /><ref>{{cite tweet | user= deesnider| author= Snider, Dee | number = 646484113633865728 | title= Freeport and Baldwin Long Island. Born in Astoria Queens, NY | date= September 22, 2015| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20220301155402/https://twitter.com/deesnider/status/646484113633865728 | archive-date = 2022-03-01| access-date =}}</ref> both on [[Long Island (New York)|Long Island]].  His father, Bob, is a retired New York State Trooper and [[Nassau County, New York|Nassau County]] court clerk, and his mother, Marguerite, is a retired art teacher.<ref>{{cite news |url = https://www.nytimes.com/2004/01/11/nyregion/long-island-journal-once-a-twisted-sister-now-a-homebody.html?pagewanted=all&src=pm |title = Long Island Journal: Once a Twisted Sister Now a Homebody |newspaper = [[The New York Times]] |date = January 11, 2004 |access-date = 2017-01-20|last1 = Fischler |first1 = Marcelle S. }}</ref> His father is [[Jewish]], whereas his mother is from a [[Catholic]] family of Swiss descent.<ref name=book1>{{cite book | title = Dee Snider's Shut Up and Give Me the Mic|  year = 2012 | first= Dee | last = Snider| publisher= | isbn= |pages= 17–18}}</ref> He is also of Ukrainian descent from his grandfather.<ref>{{cite tweet|  user= deesnider | author = Snider, Dee| number = 1497629943915708419| title=I absolutely approve of Ukrainians using 'We're Not Gonna Take It' as their battlecry. My grandfather was Ukrainian, before it was swallowed up by the USSR after WW2. This can't happen to these people again! |access-date=May 16, 2022}}</ref> Snider and his siblings were raised as [[Episcopal Church (United States)|Episcopalians]] after his mother joined the church.<ref name= book1/>

As a child, he sang in a church choir, several school choruses, and concert choir in high school. Snider was selected for the All-State Chorus for singing.<ref>{{cite web |url = http://www.newsday.com/community/guide/lihistory/ny-hometown_dee,0,3912071.story?coll=ny-lihistory-navigation |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20040818111452/http://www.newsday.com/community/guide/lihistory/ny-hometown_dee,0,3912071.story?coll=ny-lihistory-navigation |url-status = dead |archive-date = August 18, 2004 |title = Dee Snider |date = August 18, 2004 |website = Newsday.com}}</ref>
He graduated from [[Baldwin Senior High School (New York)|Baldwin Senior High School]] in 1973.<ref>{{cite web |url = http://www.newsday.com/community/guide/lihistory/ny-starring_li_pop,0,1403302.story?coll=ny-lihistory-navigation |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20040606040417/http://www.newsday.com/community/guide/lihistory/ny-starring_li_pop,0,1403302.story?coll=ny-lihistory-navigation |url-status = dead |archive-date = June 6, 2004| title=Sounding Off in Suburbia |work= Newsday|date = June 6, 2004}}</ref>