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David Draiman is an American musician, singer and songwriter for the music bands Disturbed and Device.
Known for
- Back to the Beginning: Ozzy's Final Bow — Self2025
- Cum On Feel The Noize — Self2017
- Lennon or McCartney — Self2014
- Decade of Disturbed2010
- Disturbed - Indestructible - Live at the AM Ring — Self - Vocals2008
- Disturbed: The Making Of Indestructible — Himself2008
- Jimmy Kimmel Live! — Self - Musical Guest2003
- Disturbed: M.O.L. — Himself (Vocals)2002
- Classic Albums — Self1997
- Disturbed - Austin City Limits Music Festival 2018 — Vocals
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1973
Member of
- Disturbedsince 1996
- Devicesince 2012
- Supergroup A
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 100,092
- Total plays
- 777,230
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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 sound
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Basic local alignment search tool
· 1990 · cited 80,005x
- The PRISMA 2020 statement: an updated guideline for reporting systematic reviews
· 2021 · cited 76,915x
- The moderator–mediator variable distinction in social psychological research: Conceptual, strategic, and statistical considerations.
· 1986 · cited 62,913x
- Evaluating Structural Equation Models with Unobservable Variables and Measurement Error
· 1981 · cited 60,755x
- Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses: The PRISMA Statement
· 2009 · cited 57,926x
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Quotes
- “I would like to thank a world that never understood or accepted me, family and friends that never believed in me, and a God with one hell of a sense of humor. You have all made me what I am today. Let that weigh heavily on your consciences.”
- “[I'm] Very positive about the internet, Napster. I think it's a tremendous tool for reaching many more people than we ever could without it. When you release music you want it to be heard by people... Nothing is going to do that better than Napster. I can't tell you how many kids have come up to me and said, "I downloaded a couple of tunes off Napster and I went out and bought the album."...I don't really make money off of record sales anyway.”
- “This is not rocket science. Instead of spending all this money litigating against kids who are the people they're trying to sell things to in the first place, they have to learn how to effectively use the Internet. For the artists, my ass... I didn't ask them to protect me, and I don't want their protection.”
- “[about the name Disturbed] It had been a name I have been contemplating for a band for years. It just seems to symbolize everything we were feeling at the time. The level of conformity that people are forced into was disturbing to us and we were just trying to push the envelope and the name just sorta made sense.”
- “I had been taking Prevacid for about four years and my body built up a resistance to it, to the point where it wasn't doing anything anymore... I had a night of drinking in London followed by a full day and night of drinking on a day off in Dublin, because what else is there to do in Ireland but drink? That, coupled with a show where I had monitor problems, and I pretty much trashed my voice.”
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Key facts
- Born
- David Michael Draiman , ( 1973-03-13 ) March 13, 1973 (age 53) , New York City , U.S.
- Origin
- Chicago, Illinois , U.S.
- Genres
- Alternative metal heavy metal hard rock industrial metal nu metal
- Occupations
- Singer songwriter
- Instrument
- Vocals
- Years active
- 1996–present
- Member of
- Disturbed
- Formerly of
- Device
- Website
- disturbed1 .com
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Wikidata facts
- Official website
- www.disturbed1.com
- Image
- Disturbed - Rock am Ring 2016 -2016155182402 2016-06-03 Rock am Ring - Sven - 1D X - 0147 - DV3P9519 mod.jpg
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- 1992-00-00
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- 24921
- name in native language
- David Draiman
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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