- Born
- Birth nameDavid Michael Draiman
- Height5′ 6½″ (1.69 m)
- David Draiman's father YJ Draiman is a candidate for Mayor of Los Angeles in the 2017 Elections and is the number 2 candidate after the current mayor. David's father is a fourth term elected official in the City of Los Angeles, he also ran for mayor of Los Angeles in 2013 and his Agenda is to make Los Angeles the World Capital of Renewable Energy and Water conservation technology, bringing about thousands of businesses and revitalizing Los Angeles Economy and creating over a hundred thousand new jobs in Southern California.- IMDb Mini Biography By: Draiman
- SpouseLena Yada(September 25, 2011 - 2023) (divorced, 1 child)
- Powerful, low raspy vocals.
- Chin piercing and shaved head
- His girlfriend committed suicide when he was age 16. Draiman wrote a song called "Inside the Fire" in the 2008 Indestructible album that focuses on her suicide.
- His grandfather is a Holocaust survivor.
- Lead singer for the band Disturbed, which hails from Chicago, Illinois.
- 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.
- David's religion is Judaism.
- If we really were as shitty as everyone says, would we have sold seven million records?
- Nonsense. I think that the problem isn't with them downloading the song, the problem is when they buy the record and when they burn a million discs off their computer for all their friends. That's the reason why every single band, no matter who you are, your sales are chopped by fifty to sixty percent after your first week out. It's a huge problem, but instead of giving people more reasons to buy the product, they don't worry about that. I think you have to enhance the value of the product. Like when KISS was putting out records, their 'Alive' record sold so well because it made you feel like you were part of the concert experience. There was also an actual program in the thing, all these pictures, the KISS Army stuff... There's so much stuff that added to the value of that package. There wasn't a KISS fan out there who didn't want the whole thing, because everything that came along with the music was so worthwhile to them. It's not rocket-science, this stuff.
- 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.
- 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.
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