David Draiman
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| David Draiman | |
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 Draiman singing at a concert in Columbus, Ohio in 2009.
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| Background information | |
| Birth name | David Michael Draiman |
| Born | March 13, 1973 Brooklyn, New York, U.S. |
| Genre(s) | Hard rock, heavy metal, nu metal |
| Instrument(s) | Vocals |
| Years active | 1996–present |
| Label(s) | Giant, Reprise, Intoxication |
| Associated acts | Disturbed |
| Website | www.disturbed1.com |
David Michael Draiman (born March 13, 1973 in Brooklyn, New York) is a songwriter and the lead singer for the band Disturbed, from Chicago, Illinois.
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[edit] Education and personal life
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 at the Neveh Zion Yeshiva in Telz-Stone, Jerusalem. Draiman then triple majored in Business Administration, Philosophy, and Political Science at Loyola University.[citation needed] When Draiman was sixteen years old, he experienced the suicide of a girlfriend. He later wrote a song about it, titled "Inside the Fire", which appeared on the 2008 album Indestructible.[1]
[edit] Musical take-off
Draiman was seriously considering law school before he auditioned for the band after finding an ad in an Illinois newspaper.[citation needed] The audition was for Brawl, after their last singer, Erich Awalt, had left the band. He joined in 1996, changing the band name to Disturbed.[citation needed] He originally left his family and beliefs behind to become a rockstar, which upset his grandfather who was a Holocaust survivor, and further produced the album Believe as a response to his grandfather's death.[citation needed]
In 2006, Draiman was added to the Hit Parader "Heavy Metal's All-Time Top 100 Vocalists" at number 42.[2]
[edit] Discography
[edit] Disturbed
The Sickness (2000)
Believe (2002)
Ten Thousand Fists (2005)
Indestructible (2008)
[edit] References
- Jeff Kitts; Brad Tolinski (2002). Guitar World Presents Nu-Metal: From the Pages of Guitar World Magazine. Hal Leonard Publishing Corporation. 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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