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Davey Havok, (born on November 20, 1975) is the lead vocalist of the band AFI.
Biography
Davey Havok was born on November 20, 1975 in Rochester, New York. Shortly after, he moved to Ukiah, California. There, Davey attended Catholic school in Ukiah until the eighth grade. During high school, his friends Mark Stophelese and Vic Chalker wanted to start a band. Unfortunately, they had several problems. Chief amongst them was their lack of a drummer. Mark suggested his friend Adam Carson be in the band. Furthermore, they didn't know how to play any instruments, but they knew that Davey had a good voice, and Adam had a drumset. So Mark learned guitar and Vic learned bass (he was later replaced by future Tiger Army bassist Geoff Kresge).
Havok cites lead singers such as Freddie Mercury (of Queen), Robert Smith (of The Cure), Glenn Danzig (of The Misfits, Samhain, and Danzig), Peter Murphy (of Bauhaus), David Gahan (of Depeche Mode), Morrissey, Ian Curtis (of Joy Division), Ian MacKaye (of Minor Threat and Fugazi) and David Bowie as his influences. Shortly after high school, the band broke up and Davey moved to Berkeley, California, where he attended UC Berkeley, planning to double major in English and Psychology. He began constantly writing lyrics to songs that would eventually appear on the albums "Answer That and Stay Fashionable" and "Very Proud of Ya".
In a memorable band reunion, put together by one of their classmates, the band played at the Phoenix Theatre for several hundreds of fans. They decided to reunite and record an album. In 1995, "Answer That and Stay Fashionable" was released on Wingnut Records (re-released in 1997 on Nitro Records). Geoff left during a tour for "Very Proud of Ya" and was replaced by Hunter Burgan. Hunter would eventually become the permanent replacement for Geoff. Hunter was still in The Force until he permanently joined AFI during the "A Fire Inside" EP. However, before that, AFI released their third full length release, "Shut Your Mouth and Open Your Eyes", in which Davey started getting very serious about his lyrics. He started singing about religion, humanity and other more serious issues.
The next release was the "A Fire Inside" EP. Afterwards, Mark was asked to leave the band. His replacement was Jade Puget, who had been friends with the band since high school. AFI then released "Black Sails In The Sunset" in 1998. In fall of that year, they released the "All Hallows" EP. In 2000, they released "The Art Of Drowning" to fair record sales, but great acclaim by fans. In 2003, the band's first major label release, "Sing the Sorrow", on the late Dreamworks Records, was released.
Glitterboy Clothing Line
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In 2005, Davey Havok teamed up with Serious Clothing to release Glitterboy. Glitterboy Clothing is available through Hot Topic. Due to creativity differences between Havok and Serious, Glitterboy was canceled after only a few months. However, Havok is working on a new line which he said will be available in 2007.
Trivia
- Havok has a plethora of tattoos, including a pair of large black wings on his back and a flaming heart on his chest, daggers on his left and right ribs, black hearts behind both ears, stars down both his collar bones, as well as both arms sleeved with halloween imagery with direct references to Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas.
- Havok loaned his voice to The Nerve Agents for their 2nd release, Days of the White Owl on the song, "Jekyl and Hyde."
- Havok provided backing vocals for The Offspring's 4th and 5th albums Ixnay on the Hombre and Americana.
- Havok also has provided many backup vocals for Tiger Army
- Havok is mentioned in the song Mattersville by NOFX ("Davey Havok's house is painted black")
- Havok also provided backup vocals on the Dance Hall Crashers song "I Don't Wanna Behave", from the album Lockjaw.
- Alongside Jade Puget from AFI, Havok is involved in an electronic side-project named Blaqk Audio.
- Havok also was a guest vocalist on The Transplants song "Quick Death".
- Havok sings on the song Blue Strip by the band Fury 66
- Havok appears on Bleeding Through's DVD, Wolves Among Sheep
- Havok appears in the Live Freaky Die Freaky movie.
- Havok appears in the Mary Jane's Not A Virgin Anymore movie.
- Havok is italian-american.
- Havok is straight edge and a vegan. He has never been drunk or even had a beer.
- Davey has a lip piercing in the right corner of his lip that he has had for several years. He also had a monroe piercing but for a very short time. His ear piercings are stretched to 1/2 an inch at last notice.