![]() Asthma forced him to stay in the hospital every month from the ages of 3 to 10, and he survived a " critical asthma attack" when he was five years old he said, "My heart stopped, and I didn't see no damn light or hear any music". He lived with his mother at first, but, after experiencing bad situations at that home, he moved in with and was raised by his father and former stepmother in Bakersfield, but was made to feel like he "came in and ruined their perfect little family." Davis suffered severe bouts of asthma as a child. His parents divorced when he was three years old. His father was a keyboardist for Buck Owens and Frank Zappa, while his mother was a professional actress and dancer. He has a sister, Alyssa Marie Davis (born February 8, 1974), as well as a half-brother, Mark Chavez (lead singer of Adema born November 15, 1978), and a half-sister, Amanda Chavez (born July 31, 1981) by his mother. He is of English, German, Scottish, and Welsh descent. ![]() His parents married on February 27, 1970. ![]() Jonathan Howsmon Davis was born in Bakersfield, California, on January 18, 1971, the son of Holly Marie Chavez ( née Smith February 25, 2018) and Ricky Duane "Rick" Davis (born December 14, 1948). As of 2018, Davis has sold over 40 million albums worldwide. He won two Grammy Awards out of eight nominations throughout his career. In Australia, he received eight platinum album certifications by the Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA), and in the UK he received six gold certifications. In the U.S, he was awarded fifteen platinum album certifications by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). įourteen of his albums reached the top 10 on the Billboard 200, including MTV Unplugged and Greatest Hits, Vol. For decades, Davis has been passionate about visual arts, horror films, comics and video games. He is also versatile in many genres, mixing tracks and performs DJ sets with his alter ego JDevil. ![]() Davis is a multi-instrumentalist musician who plays guitar, drums, bagpipes, piano, upright bass, violin, and the clarinet. He has collaborated with various artists over the course of his career, ranging from metal to alternative rock, rap, world music, and electronic music. He released his first solo album in 2018. He began his side project called Jonathan Davis and the SFA in 2007 and continued to experiment with musical styles. įrom 2000 to 2001, Davis and Richard Gibbs wrote and produced the score and soundtrack album of Queen of the Damned, his first work outside the band. Davis's vocals, which alternate from an angry tone to a high-pitched voice, switching from sounding atmospheric to aggressively screaming, have been the trademark of Korn throughout the band's career. Īnchored by his personal, passionate lyrics and unusual tenor vocals, Davis launched a successful career which has spanned almost three decades,and has helped influence many acts from different types of genres of music. Davis rapidly gained notoriety for his intense and powerful live performances with Korn. He had led Sexart during his years as an assistant coroner. ĭavis co-founded Korn in Los Angeles in 1993 with the dissolution of two bands, Sexart and L.A.P.D. Davis's distinctive personality and Korn's music influenced a generation of musicians and performers who have come after them. ![]() He is best known as the lead vocalist and frontman of nu metal band Korn, which is considered a pioneering act of the nu metal genre. Jonathan Howsmon Davis (born January 18, 1971), also known as JD or JDevil, is an American singer, songwriter, and musician. ![]()
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