A star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame will be unveiled Tuesday honoring hard rock and heavy metal singer, songwriter and guitarist Sammy Hagar for a career where he sold more than 50 million albums.

Sammy Hagar

Singer John Mayer and Tom Consolo, Hager’s longtime manager, will join him in speaking in the 11:30 a.m. ceremony adjacent to Amoeba Music on Hollywood Boulevard which will be emceed by chef and television host Guy Fieri.

Hagar’s star is across the street from Fieri’s. The two founded the premium Tequila brand Santo Spirit in 2019.

The ceremony will be streamed at walkoffame.com.

The star will be the 2,779th since the completion of the Walk of Fame in 1961 with the initial 1,558 stars.

Born Oct. 13, 1947 in Monterey, Hagar and his family moved to Fontana when his father got a job at the Kaiser Steel Mill.

Known as the “Red Rocker,” Hagar fronted his first band, the Fabulous Castilles, when he was 14 years old.

After graduating from Fontana High School, Hagar moved to nearby Riverside, played in several local bands and ran a store’s music department.

While playing in a San Francisco cover band, Hagar was discovered and recruited in 1973 to join the hard rock band Montrose formed by session guitarist Ronnie Montrose. He appeared on the band’s first two albums, then fired in 1975 following disputes with Montrose during a European tour.

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Hagar then embarked on a solo career, recording eight studio albums between 1976 and 1984. The eighth studio album, “VOA,” included on of Hagar’s best-known songs, “I Can’t Drive 55,” which he quickly wrote after getting a ticket for driving 62 mph when the national speed limit was 55 mph.

Hagar was lead vocalist and lead guitarist for Van Halen from 1985-96 when it produced four multi-platinum, No. 1 Billboard charting albums: “5150,” “OU812,” “For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge,” and “Balance,” along with nine No. 1 mainstream rock hits.

After leaving Van Halen, Hagar released the solo album “Marching to Mars” in 1997, which reached 18th on the Billboard chart, then formed the long-term band, Sammy Hagar & the Waboritas, which released four albums between 1999 and 2006.

Hager rejoined Van Halen from 2003-05. He formed the supergroup Chickenfoot in 2008. It released a self-titled debut album in 2009 which reached fourth on the Billboard chart, had a brief tour and released a second album, “Chickenfoot III” in 2011, which reached ninth on the Billboard chart.

Hager formed another supergroup, Sammy Hagar and the Circle in 2014. It first album, “Space Between,” released in 2019, reached fourth on the Billboard chart. Its second album, “Crazy Times,” released in 2022, reached 95th.

Sammy Hagar and the Circle will begin the 28-stop “The Best of All Worlds” tour July 13 in West Palm Beach, Florida. It will include a stop at the Forum Aug. 19.

Hagar’s honors include induction in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame as part of Van Halen, a best hard rock performance with vocal Grammy in 1991 for “Unlawful Carnal Knowledge” with Van Halen along with nominations in 1984 for best album of original score written for a motion picture or a television special for “Footloose” and in 1995 for best hard rock performance for the track for “The Seventh Seal” from the Van Halen album “Balance.”