Great White is an American rock band, formed in Los Angeles in 1977. They gained their name from the shark of the same name the great white shark. They got their popularity during the 1980s and early 1990s. The band released several albums in the late 1980s and gained airplay on MTV with music videos for songs like "Once Bitten, Twice Shy". The band reached their peak popularity with the album "...Twice Shy" in 1989. The band continued to release new material into the 1990s, although none of their material charted in the United States.