David Draiman Wife, Daughter, Son, Height, Net Worth, Age, Religion

The metal music that found its footing in the 80s seems to have lost its flair among Millennials, but most of its pioneers continue to push their limits to demonstrate their ability to stick. David Michael Draiman aka David Draiman is one of those who took the genre to new heights, valiantly preserving it. He is an American songwriter and the lead singer of the metal band Disturbed, known for their fist anthems, as well as the band Device.

He founded his own record company called Intoxication Records in 2003 and was voted number 42 on the “Top 100 Metal Vocalists of All Time” by Hit Parader in 2006.
David was one of five artists who sang Queen of the soundtrack Damned, featuring Wayne Static from Static-X, Jay Gordon from Orgy, Chester Bennington from Linkin Park and Marilyn Manson. Many other facts are worth knowing about him. Let’s take the dive.

David Draiman’s Bio (Age, Religion)

The Disturbed singer was born on March 13, 1973, at Flatbush Hospital, located in the suburbs of Brooklyn, New York, United States. Her mother is Miriam Draiman and her father, YJ Draiman, was a property developer, business owner and an elected member of the Northridge East ward council. He also ran for mayor of Los Angeles in 2017.

David Draiman is a well-known supporter of Israel. Her maternal grandparents are both Holocaust survivors and her grandmother lives in Israel. His parents are practicing and religious Jews, so his religion is Judaism. Although he did not follow the religious path, he is totally proud of his Jewish heritage.

He is not the only musician in the family, his youngest brother, Benjamin, has been a pianist and singer-songwriter since the age of 13. He is a social worker and ambient/folk rock musician based in Israel and performs in Jerusalem.

Education

Being born to Orthodox Jewish parents (dati) has its own expectations. For David, his parents wanted him to be ordained as a rabbi or cantor (semikhah), which led him to regularly spend time in Israel during his youth. And that would also reflect on his upbringing; he attended a number of Jewish day schools, including the Wisconsin Institute for Torah Study in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Valley Torah High School, Los Angeles, Fasman Yeshiva High School, Chicago, in Illinois.

David, however, had his own plans. He didn’t want to limit himself to the rigorous religious standards, rules and requirements of schools, instead he chose to be a normal teenager. He was expelled from three of the schools he attended and left the fourth of his own free will. David formed his first band during his years at one of these schools – Valley Torah High School, in Los Angeles, California.

Although he resented his study in these schools, he later encouraged his family to observe the Jewish day of rest also known as Shabbat or Sabbath and then train as a hazzan (cantor, who leads the Jewish congregation in prayer).

despite his high school rebellion, he was a good student and has good grades to show for it. He graduated from Ida Crown Jewish Academy in Chicago, Illinois in 1991, marking the end of his high school career. During the following year, after his graduation, David Draiman was in Israel to study at Yeshivas Neveh Zion in Kiryat Ye’arim, on the outskirts of Jerusalem. According to him, he wanted to examine religion on his own and decide what he wanted to believe and what he didn’t.

Upon his return to the United States in 1992, he showed a real thirst for knowledge and enrolled in pre-law studies at Loyola University in Chicago where he specialized in the fields of political science, business philosophy and management. He graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in 1996.

He worked as a bank teller and in telephone sales while in college. After graduating, David worked as an administrative assistant in a healthcare facility. After his first year of work, he obtained an administrator’s license and opened his own health facility. He worked as a health care administrator for five years and was considering law school before making camp with the band Disturbed.

David’s Music Career

From his time as a cantor he has some vocal training which he used to the full in his later years as a singer. He began to take an interest in music while he was in school in Los Angeles. He did it with a punk rock band consisting of Ramones, Sex Pistols and several originals. In an interview with Metal Hammer, he said that Disturbed was the seventh band of the band he joined.

He became the leader of the band and is known for his distinctive rhythmic vocal character and percussive singing style. Disturbed released five studio albums, most of which topped 200 on Billboard before going on hiatus in 2011.

After their hiatus, David collaborated with Device’s Geno Lenardo on an industrial rock/metal project. He would later become the singer of the group Device. However, Disturbed reunited in 2015 and released their sixth studio album, Immortalized

While most of the other band members will focus on the genre of music they profess, David Draiman is an exception. It also draws inspiration from other genres. They include classic bands, seminal metal bands, hair metal bands, punk and new wave, among others. The musicians who have influenced him the most are James Hetfield of Metallica, Bruce Dickinson of Iron Maiden and Rob Halford of Judas Priest.

David Draiman’s net worth

The lead singer of heavy metal band Disturbed has written commercially successful songs for his band that have added to his bag. Most singles have been favored on the Billboard 200 and have generally topped the charts. Some of the songs he wrote are Hit, Stupid, Down with Illness, Prayer, Ten Thousand Fists, Deify and Another Way to Die. These have boded well with his earnings and his net worth is $10 million.

wife, daughter, son

He has been married to a former pro-WWE wrestler, Lena Yada since September 25, 2011. Lena is a Japanese-American actress and model. The two are the parents of their son, Samuel Bear Isamu Draiman, who was born on September 12, 2013. Samuel is David’s only child at the moment. It has not been reported that he has another child, son or daughter elsewhere.

the size

The Disturbed singer is in the category of average height Americans. He stands at a reasonable height of 1.69 m (5 ft 6 in).