Alice Cooper's 3 Children: All About the Rock Star’s Daughters Calico and Sonora and Son Dash

When it comes to Alice Cooper’s children — Calico, Dash and Sonora — the apples didn’t fall far from the tree. All three of the rockstar’s kids with his wife Sheryl Goddard are involved in the entertainment industry.

Alice became a dad when his daughter Calico was born in May 1981. A few years later, his only son, Dash, arrived in June 1985, followed by his younger daughter, Sonora, in December 1992.

As kids, they joined the “Poison” singer on the road but when they were at home, the trio was raised like other children their age. "We had such a normal upbringing. We had chores and normal kid allowances straight out of the gate," Calico told Sirens of Cinema in 2008.

Over the years, they have each performed with Alice in different capacities, with Calico appearing as a dancer and actress, Dash opening for his dad’s band and Sonora starring as three characters in her dad’s show.

Away from the stage, Alice is "a normal, fun-loving dude.” Dash told Music Existence in 2018, “When my dad’s home and off tour, we’d be sitting on the couch at his house watching golf. We’ll go to the movies together or out shopping."

As a father, the Hollywood Vampires crooner says he has fun with his kids but can also be stern. "I can be a liberal parent, I can be permissive and I can be very strict,” he said. "They're all pretty hip kids."

Here's everything to know about Alice Cooper’s children: Calico, Dash and Sonora.

Calico Cooper, 43

Alice and Sheryl welcomed their daughter Calico Cooper on May 19, 1981.

When Calico was 1, Alice and Sheryl moved their family from Beverly Hills, Calif., to Paradise Valley, Ariz., where they set down roots.

Alice noticed his daughter’s penchant for storytelling early on.

"Calico, when she was 7, could talk her way out of a sunburn," he told The Arizona Republic in 2018. "I would listen to the creative way she was talking herself out of something she was obviously guilty of. And I would go, ‘Oh, that’s really good. That’s really creative how she came up with that.’ "

As a sophomore at Arcadia High School, Calico channeled that creativity into dance, joining a company in which she competed nationally in jazz, acrobatics and tap.

She got the chance to show off her skills to an even larger audience at 16, performing as a clown in her father’s “Rock ‘N’ Roll Carnival” tour. "I've been in [my dad’s] show since '97," Calico told Sirens of Cinema. "At the beginning ... there were these evil, twisted clowns in masks. I would beg him, 'Dad, let me be a clown tonight! ... and he would let me go on."

For Calico, it was a dream realized. “Ever since I was a little kid I wanted to be up on stage,” she told the outlet. “I wanted to have that command of so many people like my dad had.”

Alice eventually offered his oldest daughter a more permanent spot on his 2000 “Brutal Planet” tour. “He came to me and said ... ‘I'd like to put you in the show. You're a great dancer. You're a great actor. And we need somebody to put some new life into these characters,’ ” Calico remembered.

She stayed on for the rocker’s “Psychodrama” tour, which she also helped choreograph and direct alongside Broadway director Rob Roth. Eventually, around the age of 30, Calico switched gears and explored an acting career.

"When I got home from 11 years of touring, I said, 'OK, I need to know how to get a job,’ she explained to The Arizona Republic. “So I got a job at a coffee shop and walked around asking actors, 'Hey, what is the best acting class in Los Angeles?’ ”

Calico went on to enroll in classes with acting coach Ivana Chubbuck. “I started out being an extra on 7th Heaven,” she recalled to the publication. “I would work all day for 50 bucks. I was a barista. I was a waitress. I worked in retail. ... I wanted to earn it.”

In addition to starring in several film and TV projects, including a 2015 reboot of Hawaii Five-O and the 2020 series Infectious, Calico expanded her creative horizons into music.

In 2012, she accepted an invitation from Alice Cooper bassist Chuck Garric to join his new band with Chris “Brother” Latham, Beastö Blancö, which Calico describes as “Natural Born Killers set to music."

“I ...thought ... my parents have succeeded in this. ... ‘I’ll never be able to do it on that level,’ ” she told The Arizona Republic of her initial hesitancy to join. “It wasn’t until Chuck presented the idea of doing something that was so different from what they’ve created that I went, ‘Oh, oh, it’s not a competition.’ ”

The group released its first album in 2013 with Calico as its new co-singer. Kinetica, the band’s fifth studio album, was released on July 26, 2024.

As with her father, Calico’s music is a family affair: The video for Beastö Blancö’s 2024 single “Lowlands” was filmed by the singer’s husband, Jed Williams. The couple married in October 2015 in Hawaii.

Dashiell “Dash” Cooper, 39

Alice and Sheryl’s only son, Dashiell “Dash” Coop, was born on June 3, 1985.

According to Dash, he experienced his father’s musical influence early on. “At a young age, I was exposed to so much music,” he told Music Existence. “Every day was a different musical genre.”

As he grew, the budding musician began to acquire his musical interests. “I developed my own taste, and started writing my own music,” Dash explained.

He told Rock Hard’s Jay Conroy that his dad was “very instrumental in ... encouraging me to write my own stuff.”

By the sixth grade, Dash also began experimenting with what his mom called his “Broadway voice” to Arcadia News in 1998.

In 2010, Alice and Sheryl’s son graduated from Arizona State University with a bachelor's degree in communication, according to his LinkedIn. The year prior, Alice performed at the college's 2009 commencement ceremony, where Dash's band, Runaway Phoenix, backed him up.

Dash eventually formed the band CO-OP, in which he was the lead singer. In 2013, they performed with Alice for a Solid Rock benefit in Alaska and the group also worked with The Hollywood Vampires, as well as Mötley Crüe, KISS and Korn, among others.

CO-OP released an EP in 2016, followed by their debut album two years later. Around this time, the band went on their first tour. Since then, CO-OP has released four singles.

In his personal life. Dash married his wife, Morgan Cooper, in May 2011. The couple went on to welcome twin boys, Falcon and Riot, in November 2014. They later announced the birth of their son Rexington in July 2018.

Sadly, Dash and Morgan suffered the loss of their fourth child together, son Milo, two years later. The pair split sometime after 2021.

Sonora Rose Cooper, 32

Cooper and Sheryl welcomed their youngest child, Sonora Rose Cooper, on Dec. 14, 1992.

More timid than her siblings, Sheryl told Arcadia News that Sonora refused to dance at her first recital.

Still, she enjoyed going on tour with her famous father. “I remember being 14 years old and having the privilege to travel on the road with my dad throughout Europe; all while being home-schooled on a tour bus,” she once wrote.

Sonora found her calling on the road. “I technically started [in the makeup artistry] when I was a sophomore,” she told Saguaro Spotlight in 2014. “I took a year off school to do a worldwide rock tour, and I was part of this show, playing three different characters every single night.”

According to Sonora, it was sink or swim when it came to doing her makeup for the show. “I really had to learn how to do this ... on my own,” she said. “Eventually, I got pretty good at doing these looks.”

Though Sonora wrote that she struggled to transition back to public school, she met the man who would become her future husband, Diego Diaz, as a student at Arcadia High in Phoenix.

The pair started as friends, with Sonora sharing that they had “a solid friendship before we started dating.” Things changed after Diego asked her to junior prom. “From there on we officially started dating our senior year of high school,” she added.

After graduation, the couple moved to Los Angeles together, where Sonora attended the Make-Up Designory school in Burbank, Calif.

“I really wanted to do beauty when I started out, [but] I realized that I was really good at doing injuries and bruising and lacerations,” she told Saguaro Spotlight. “Eventually I really started cranking out my work and creating fun monsters and zombies and that’s what I do to this day.”

Sonora has also helped her dad get ready for shows. "In my element, creating vampires 💉," she captioned an Instagram photo of her doing Alice's makeup. Since then, she's dabbled in editorial and bridal looks as well.

On Nov. 16, 2018, Sonora and Diego tied the knot in Phoenix, where they returned to start a family. “I love this man with all my heart and cannot wait to share more adventures with him,” she wrote at the time.

The twosome moved into her parents’ home at Alice’s suggestion in 2020, just in time to welcome their first child, Desiree, per the rocker’s website. Alice later gushed to Cleveland.com, “My daughter is going to have a baby in July, so I get to be there for that.”

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