David Michael Draiman (born March 13, 1973 in Brooklyn, New York) is a songwriter and the lead singer for the band Disturbed, who hails from Chicago, Illinois.

Contents 1 Education and personal life 2 Musical take-off and Girlfriend's suicide 3 Discography 3.1 Disturbed

Education and personal lifeEdit

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 Chicago and seriously thought about going to law school before joining the band.

Draiman believes it was not their musical talent that made Disturbed what it is today but that it was their fans. Whilst performing live he refers to the audience as 'my brothers, my sisters, my blood'.

Draiman is lapse jewish, fully losing his faith after his girlfirends suicide and his grandfathers death.

January 25, 2011 Draiman's father Yj Draiman is running for Mayor of Los Angeles

He id thinking of performing in Singapore & is trying his best to convince his band members to do. . Hopefully by next year. .

Musical take-off and Girlfriend's suicideEdit

Draiman auditioned for the band, Brawl, after their last singer, Erich Awalt, left the band. He joined in 1993, changing the band name to Disturbed.

Draiman was one of the six artists who sang for the Queen of and the Damned soundtrack, along with Jonathan Davis of Korn, Wayne Static of Static-X, Jay Gordon of Orgy, Chester Bennington of Linkin Park, and Marilyn Manson. He produced Disturbed's second studio album Believe in response to his grandfather's death.

In 2003, he started his own record label, Intoxication Records, along with band member/guitarist Dan Donegan, and drummer, Mike Wengren.! David Draiman began performing live with Disturbed at Camp Buehring, Kuwait, on March 10, 2008In 2006, Draiman was added to the Hit Parader "Heavy Metal's All-Time Top 100 Vocalists" at number 42.

Inside the Fire, a track from Disturbed's album Indestructible, deals with a rough part of David's childhood, that of the suicide of his girlfriend back in school. David was 16, and attended a private boarding school, she was 18 and a freshman at university. They met at a spring break party.She was a heroin addict. David tried to get her to quit, but unfortunately failed. Fearing disapproval from his family he then decided to end the relationship. They met once again a year after, at the following spring break party. Leaving early to avoid confrontation, David went back to his parent's house, where he got a call from a friend the next day, saying she had died of an overdose. David also stated in the interview that, in the ambulance, all she wanted was for him to be with her. He had nightmares for years afterwards, but he eventually got over it, until very recently, while working on the lyrics for the Indestructible album, he started to have them again. In the video of "Inside the Fire" he depicts what dealing with suicide could mean for those with religious backgrounds or beliefs, in that suicide is a sin and you can't go to heaven for it. After his ex-girlfriend's death, David got into a downward spiral involving drugs as well, but had an epiphany at the age of 18. He then realized the error of his ways, and went cold turkey.

DiscographyEdit

DisturbedEdit

• Demo (1998)
• The Sickness (2000)
• Believe (2002)
• Ten Thousand Fists (2005)
• Indestructible (2008)
• Asylum(2010)