Chris Warren (musician)

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Christopher Warren is a musician from New York who has performed in numerous bands. He is currently lead vocals in Bro-Kin, and their music has been featured on TNA (Total Nonstop Action wrestling).

Warren is known for being the vocalist in The DX Band (sometimes referred to as The Chris Warren Band), a group who performed the entrance theme of professional wrestling stable D-Generation X called Break It Down. His vocals have been often compared to Rage Against the Machine's lead singer, Zack de la Rocha's. Warren also did the vocals for Triple H's post-DX theme "My Time," the Run-DMC DX version "Kings" (in addition to making a cameo appearance in the music video), the WWE "Superstars" TV theme and an un-released recording with Bro-Kin for WWE's Tough Enough II which never made it onto the show.

Warren made a couple of appearances at WWE shows performing "Break It Down" at both WrestleMania XIV and SummerSlam 1998.

1 Biography
2 Discography
3 Bands played in
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[edit] Biography

Chris Warren was born in Long Island, New York in 1974. He is known to many as the voice behind the DX entrance music, and after this became a big success Chris impressed Jim Johnston (head of WWE music) so much that he offered him further vocal work. Over the course of the next 4 years, Chris recorded several songs for the WWE. In 1998, Chris made his TV debut at WrestleMania XIV, performing a screeching version of "America The Beautiful" and the National Anthem, as well as the DX entrance music later on in the night. He was booed heavily for the rendition, which the fans and national media in attendance considered disrespectful. However, it was revealed in 2002 that this disrespect was a WWE-instructed work meant to generate further heat on the DX stable. Five months later, Chris again performed the DX entrance music live at Summerslam 1998. In 1999, Chris recorded the vocals for Triple H's theme 'My Time'. This song was featured on the platinum album 'WWF The Music, Vol. 4'. He also recorded the 'Superstars' TV theme from the same year. His last appearance was a cameo on the Run-DMC 'Kings' music video, directed by David Sahadi which became a hit on MTV in the year 2000.

Chris is now living in Rockland County, New York.

On February 13, 2007, Chris Warren and fellow DX band member Drew Stiles were interviewed by Lee Tyers and Andy Evans on The Squared Circle radio.

In July 2007, Chris Warren and Bro-Kin signed an agreement with TNA (Total Nonstop Action wrestling), which involved use of the band's music on TNA's syndicated TV shows (such as TNA iMPACT!), PPVs and DVDs worldwide. Their song "Low" was used as the theme for No Surrender 2007, "Separate" for Genesis 2007 and "For The Vein" for Final Resolution 2008. Further cuts of other songs appeared (and continue to do so) on various TNA video packages.