All About Travis Barker’s Parents, Randy and Gloria Barker

Travis Barker’s parents, Randy and Gloria Barker, knew he would grow up to be a musician before he did.

The Blink-182 drummer’s dreams of rock stardom were supported by his parents from an early age. Dad and mom enrolled him in drumming lessons when he was little and took him to every class together. Gloria also picked up the instrument to help her son.

“Dad drove us, and mom always sat in the room and recorded the lesson. She learned to read notes and hold the drums properly; if I didn’t understand something, I could always go to her,” Travis shared in his 2015 memoir. May I say.

Randy and Gloria met in Fontana, California, where they married after a few months of dating. They had two children before welcoming Travis; daughters Tamara and Randalai.

Gloria died in 1990 when Travis was 12, and his relationship with Randy deepened. “Every morning I talk to him like a lubricant. It’s always good to have a parent who keeps you humble, grounded,” Travis said Vice in 2015.

His father is equally grateful for their relationship. “Travis has made me very proud. I never dreamed it would make it this big, Randy said May I say?. “He amazed me with everything he was able to achieve.”

Here’s everything you need to know about Travis Barker’s parents, Randy and Gloria Barker.

They met in a restaurant

Travis Barker’s parents, Gloria and Randy Barker.

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Travis’ mother, Gloria, also known as “Cookie,” was working at a restaurant called the Red Devil, owned by her mother and uncle, when she first met Randy.

“I liked one waitress, Cookie — she was a very pretty girl and petite … I just liked her and nobody could change my mind,” Randy wrote in Travis’ memoir.

Randy also said that Gloria’s mother enjoyed it when he started frequenting their restaurant. However, her feelings changed when they started dating.

“Cookie told me … her mother always said, ‘Why don’t you be with a nice guy like that?’ Of course, once we met, she couldn’t do anything but run over me,” Randy said.

“But after a while, she knew I was in love with her daughter,” he added.

They got married after only a few months of dating, and had three children

Travis Barker with his dad Randy Barker.

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According to Randy, he and Gloria only dated for “four or six months” before tying the knot. After meeting at the restaurant where she worked, Randy went out looking for her when she stormed off after an argument with her mother.

“I went out, caught her on the way home and picked her up. We drove around for about four hours that night, just talking, getting to know each other. Since then it has developed into a romance – Randy revealed to May I say?

Shortly after their marriage, Randy and Gloria had their first child, a daughter named Randalai “Randy” Barker in 1968. Two years later, their second daughter, Tamara “Tammy” Barker was born in 1970.

Travis Landon Barker was born in 1975. He said he’s not sure where his mom got the name Travis, but his middle name, Landon, comes from actor Michael Landon who starred in Little House on the Prairie.

The Landon name was passed down to Travis’ son, Landon Asher Barker.

Randy worked in a steel mill and Gloria ran a daycare

Travis Barker’s father, Randy Barker, is in the military.

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Randy grew up in a steel mill town in Pennsylvania and moved with his family to Fontana, California when he was 18, where he got a job at Kaiser Steel.

Randy is also an Army veteran who served in Vietnam. He entered May I say that he was trained as a radio teletype operator but became a Jeep driver when he arrived in Vietnam.

“I was drafted into the military around 1973 and spent two years in the military: one year in the United States and one year in Vietnam,” he said.

While Randy worked in the steel mill, his mother ran a daycare center in their home. “Mom was a hard, hard worker. She ran a daycare center in our house, so there were seven to twelve children there every day,” Travis said in his memoirs.

He continued, “It was cool to have a few boys in kindergarten. We’d go outside and ride our bikes, play cowboys and Indians, or get on our skateboards.”

Travis also said that he would take his dad’s military medals and pins when he played cops and robbers, and that he lost them all running around.

They encouraged Travis’ drumming

Travis Barker was playing drums as a kid.

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In Travis’ 2015 memoir, he revealed that his parents made sure he got drum lessons and took him to everything together.

Gloria was dedicated to helping Travis learn to play the drums, even taking it upon herself to learn to play so she could be practical.

“She learned just as fast as I did — when I was a kid, my mom was just as good on the drums as I was,” Travis said.

He also said that his mom was always his biggest supporter as a drummer and that he believed he would be a rock star.

“I don’t know if she ever had aspirations to be a musician herself or if she was just trying to encourage me, but she kept telling me that I would be her drummer. One Christmas she made me learn ‘The Little Drummer Boy’ and play it all the time,” he said. “She would play the song on repeat, hoping it would have some lasting effect on me.”

Gloria died in 1990

Gloria Barker, Travis Barker’s mom.

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Just before Travis started high school, his mother died after being diagnosed with the autoimmune disease Sjögren’s syndrome. She was only diagnosed a few months earlier and spent the summer in the hospital.

“All that summer I went to the hospital every day with my family to see my mom. It hurt so much to see her so weak and helpless,” Travis wrote in his memoirs.

On September 3, 1990, Gloria died.

“The day before school started, my family drove over to visit her, but I wanted to ride my bike. I got on my Schwinn beach cruiser and arrived about an hour after everyone else. When I walked into the hospital room everyone was crying hysterically – I knew what happened before anyone could say anything,” Travis wrote.

Losing his mother just before high school started, Travis was cut off from socializing and schoolwork, but his priority was joining the school’s marching band to make her proud.

In his memoir, Travis said one of the last things his mom said to him was, “Don’t stop playing the drums, Travis. Follow your dreams.”

He and his father have the same tattoos

Travis Barker’s tattoos.

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Travis’ dad Randy wasn’t happy that he started getting tattoos at an early age, but later in life he recovered and even got a tattoo himself.

“He showed me that he has the world my friend tattooed on the shoulder. That’s what we always called each other, because he was old enough to talk. To show him that I support him, I decided to get the same tattoo my shoulder,” Randy wrote May I say?

But he didn’t stop there — he also tattooed the logo of Travis’ brand, Famous Stars and Straps, on his left arm.

Travis, who is known for his tattoos, has portraits of his father and mother inked on his back. He is not the only one in his family with family tattoos. His daughter, Alabama, has a cross tattooed on her finger for her late maternal grandparents.

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