David Draiman
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 Draiman singing at a concert in New Jersey
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| Birth name | David Michael Draiman |
| Born | March 13, 1973 Brooklyn, New York, U.S. |
| Genre(s) | Nu metal, hard rock, alternative metal |
| Instrument(s) | Vocals |
| Years active | 1996–present |
| Label(s) | Giant, Reprise, Intoxication |
| Associated acts | Disturbed |
| Website | http://www.disturbed1.com |
David Michael Draiman (born March 13, 1973 in Brooklyn, New York)[1] is the lead singer for the band Disturbed, which hails from Chicago, Illinois.
[edit] Education
After attending Yeshiva High School at the Wisconsin Institute for Torah Study in Milwaukee, the Fasman Yeshiva High School and Ida Crown Jewish Academy in Chicago, and Valley Torah High School in North Hollywood, California, he spent the 1991-1992 academic year in the Neveh Zion Yeshiva in Telshe Stone, Jerusalem. He attended Loyola University Chicago where he triple majored in business administration, political science, and Philosophy. He was considering law school before he joined the band, which he discovered in an ad in the Illinois Entertainer, a local music publication in Chicago. His last job before becoming a musician full-time was as an administrator at Ambassador Nursing and Rehab Center in Chicago. He currently resides in Chicago, IL.
[edit] Musical Take-Off
He is one of six artists who sang for the Queen of the Damned soundtrack, along with Jonathan Davis of KoЯn, Wayne Static of Static-X, Jay Gordon of Orgy, Chester Bennington of Linkin Park, and Marilyn Manson. He produced the album Believe as a response to his grandfather's death. He was recently added to the Hit Parader "Heavy Metal's All-Time Top 100 Vocalists" in 2006 at #42.[2]
In 2003, he started his own record label, Intoxication Records, along with band member/guitarist Dan Donegan, and drummer, Mike Wengren.
In the June 2008 edition of Metal Hammer magazine, David had revealed in an interview that he had a very difficult childhood. He was often harassed and bullied due to the fact that he came from a deeply religious Jewish family. His maternal grandparents even survived internment in the Bergen-Belsen and Auschwitz concentration camps during the Second World War. During his childhood, David, who trained to be a Rabbi, even got into a fight with some other kids who harassed him because of his religious beliefs and wanted his allowance. One of them tried to hold him down so the others could have their way, but ended up with David's back heel in his testicles. The bully in front of him struck David down, who landed next to his bike. David then grabbed his bike chain and then "smacked the living shit out of them until they could not get up".
Some of their new songs, Deceiver and Inside the Fire, of their new album Indestructible, deal with another rough part of his childhood, being the suicide of his girlfriend back in school. David was 14, and attended a private boarding school, she was 18 and a freshman at university. They met at a spring break party. Little did he know, she was also a heroin addict. David tried to get her to lay off, but unfortunately failed. Fearing dissapproval from his family he then decided to end the relationship. They met once again a year after, at the following spring break party. Leaving early to avoid confrontation, David went back to his parent's house, where he got a call from a friend the next day, saying she had died of an overdose. David also stated in the interview that, in the ambulance, all she wanted was for him to be with her. He had nightmares for years afterwards, but he eventually got over it, until very recently, while working on the lyrics for the Indestructible album, he started to have them again. in the video of "inside the fire" he depicts what dealing with suicide could mean for those with religious backrounds or beliefs, in that suicide is a sin and you can't go to heaven for it. After his ex-girlfriend's death, David got into a downward spiral involving drugs as well, but had an epiphany at the age of 18, realized the error of his ways, and went cold turkey.
[edit] References
- Jeff Kitts, Brad TolinskiSummary (2002), Guitar World Presents nu metal, Hal Leonard, ISBN 0634032879, <http://books.google.com/books?id=4YiRcZ_4SwkC&pg=PT115&ots=rDqSsFkypP&dq=%22David+Draiman%22&ie=ISO-8859-1&output=html&sig=rh5i4PA-vAjv8om0r6li4CITJlQ>
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