Heavy Metal Singer-Songwriter; Lead Vocalist for the Band Disturbed; Known for "Stupify" & "Down with the Sickness"

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David Draiman Biography

David Michael Draiman is a heavy metal singer-songwriter and the lead singer for the band Disturbed, from Chicago, Illinois. Noted for his distorted baritone voice and percussive singing style, he has been the lead vocalist 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 albums "Immortalized" in 2015, "Evolution" in 2018, and "Divisive" in 2022.

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 behind to become a rockstar, which upset his grandfather who was a Holocaust survivor, and further produced the album Believe as a response to his grandfather's death.

In 2006, Draiman was added to the Hit Parader "Heavy Metal's All-Time Top 100 Vocalists" at number 42.

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Speaker profile last updated by AAE Talent Team on 08/12/2025.

David Draiman Videos

Disturbed - Droppin' Plates [Official Audio]

Disturbed - Droppin' Plates [Official Audio]

'The Sickness' 25th Anniversary Edition

DISTURBED's David Draiman: The Tea Time Interview

DISTURBED's David Draiman: The Tea Time Interview

David Draiman. I would call that experience the catalyst that got me interested in what metal and rock had to offer.

DISTURBED'S David Draiman: Kendrick Lamar Collab

DISTURBED'S David Draiman: Kendrick Lamar Collab

Q101's Briad Haddad sits down with David Draiman for an intimate interview about the frontman's thoughts on Kendrick Lamar.

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