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David Draiman
American singer
Musical artist
David Michael Draiman (born March 13, 1973) is an American heavy metal singer. Noted for his distorted baritone voice and percussive singing style, he has been the lead vocalist of Disturbed since 1996. He has written some of the band's most successful singles, such as "Stupify", "Down with the Sickness", "Indestructible", and "Inside the Fire". In 2006, he was ranked at No. 42 on the Hit Parader list of "Top 100 Metal Vocalists of All Time". During Disturbed's hiatus from 2011 to 2015, he worked on an industrial metal project with Geno Lenardo, which was later named Device. They released one self-titled album in 2013. Disturbed returned with the album Immortalized in 2015, Evolution in 2018, and Divisive in 2022.
Early life
David Michael Draiman was born to Jewish parents in the Brooklyn borough of New York City on March 13, 1973.[2] His father, YJ, had worked as a real estate developer and small-business owner before he was arrested for embezzlement and sent to prison when Draiman was 12 years old. David Michael Draiman is a songwriter and the lead singer for the band Disturbed, from Chicago, Illinois. 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 "NEVEH" (not Ner Jake) in Telz-Stone, Jerusalem. Draiman then triple majored in Business Administration, Philosophy, and Political Science at Loyola University. 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.He claims he is libertarian. Draiman was seriously considering law school before he auditioned for the band after finding an ad in an Illinois newspaper. 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. He originally left his family and beliefs David Michael Draiman was born March 13, 1973 in Flatbush, Brooklyn, New York, USA to a Jewish Orthodox family. He is the lead singer for the band Disturbed, which hails from Chicago, Illinois. David's career in show business started early at the Ida Crown Jewish Academy in Chicago where he performed during school assemblies and was reportedly thrown off the stage. David has a brother Ben who lives with his wife in Jerusalem. He is one of five artists who sang for the Queen of the Damned soundtrack, along with Wayne Static of Static-X, Jay Gordon of Orgy, Chester Bennington of Linkin Park, and Marilyn Manson. He originally left his family and beliefs behind to become a rockstar, which upset his grandfather (who was also a holocaust survivor), and further produced the album Believe as a response to his grandfather's death. He attended Loyola University where he triple majored in Business Administration, Political Science, and Philosophy. He was seriously considering law school before he joined the band, which he discovered in an ad in the paper. In 2003 he also started
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