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.

David Michael Draiman (Hebrew: דוד מיכאל דריימן) was born to Jewish parents in the Brooklyn borough of New York City on March 13, 1973. His father, Yehuda “YJ” (Hebrew: יהודה דריימן), had worked as a real estate developer and small-business owner before he was arrested for embezzlement and sent to prison when Draiman was 12 years old. YJ later became a candidate in the races for Mayor of Los Angeles in 2013, 2017, and 2022. Draiman’s brother, Benjamin, is…