43 Facts About Dave Navarro

David Michael Navarro was born on June 7,1967 and is an American guitarist.

Dave Navarro is best known as a member of the rock band Jane's Addiction, with whom he has recorded four studio albums.

Between 1993 and 1998, Dave Navarro was the guitarist of the Red Hot Chili Peppers, recording one studio album, One Hot Minute, before departing.

Dave Navarro has released one solo album, Trust No One.

Dave Navarro has been a member of Jane's Addiction-related bands Deconstruction and the Panic Channel.

Dave Navarro was the host and one of the judges on Ink Master, an American tattoo competition reality series that aired on Paramount Network from 2012 to 2020 and Paramount+ from 2022-present.

David Michael Dave Navarro was born on June 7,1967, in Santa Monica, California, the only child of James Raul Dave Navarro and Constance Colleen Hopkins.

In 2015, Dave Navarro released the documentary Mourning Son, which details his mother's murder and his spiral into drug addiction, as well as the pain he has had to overcome in the years since her death.

Dave Navarro has been married three times: celebrity makeup artist Tania Goddard-Saylor, Rhian Gittins, and model and actress Carmen Electra.

Dave Navarro was a performer at the Republican National Convention in 2012 in which Mitt Romney was nominated for president.

Dave Navarro had stated he was supporting Marianne Williamson as a candidate for the 2020 Democratic presidential primaries.

Dave Navarro subsequently expressed support for Tulsi Gabbard, including having her on his show.

Dave Navarro stated that he learned a lot from Robert Smith of the Cure and Daniel Ash of Bauhaus.

Dave Navarro said: "And I have always loved all the different guitarists that have been in Siouxsie and the Banshees".

Dave Navarro joined the band Jane's Addiction in 1986 as the lead guitarist after he was recommended to vocalist Perry Farrell by drummer Stephen Perkins, who was a childhood friend of Dave Navarro's.

In 1993, Dave Navarro formed Deconstruction with Jane's Addiction's Eric Avery on vocals and bass and Michael Murphy on drums.

The only album on which Dave Navarro played with Red Hot Chili Peppers, One Hot Minute, was released in 1995.

In 1995, Dave Navarro played guitar for Alanis Morissette's track "You Oughta Know" on one of the 1990s' most successful albums, Jagged Little Pill.

Dave Navarro toured with Jane's Addiction for their 1997 Relapse tour with Flea on bass.

Dave Navarro remixed Janet Jackson's "What'll I Do" for her Janet Remixed album during this time.

In 2002, Michael Jackson performed at the Apollo Theater, and Dave Navarro played guitar for his hit song "Black or White".

Dave Navarro appeared in two tournaments on Celebrity Poker Showdown in 2004.

Dave Navarro co-hosted with Brooke Burke, two seasons of the Mark Burnett television series: Rock Star: INXS and Rock Star: Supernova.

Dave Navarro soon broadened his creativity with an internet talk show called: Dave Navarro's SPREAD TV, which was streamed on ManiaTV.

In 2007, Dave Navarro teamed with Teravision to direct his first adult movie, Broken starring Sasha Grey, in the first of a planned series of celebrity-directed adult movies.

Dave Navarro appeared in Season 1 and Season 2 of Z Rock with Brooklyn-based band ZO2 on IFC.

Dave Navarro stripped down again for the group's anti animal-testing campaign in 2013.

In 2011, Dave Navarro appeared as the "Director" of a Rock and Roll Fantasy Camp, playing a complicated passage for a "camper" to emulate, in a commercial for Citibank.

Ex-Peppers guitarist Jack Sherman disagreed and felt that both he and Dave Navarro were being treated unfairly by the band, and believed they did have a say in who was inducted.

Dave Navarro appeared in four episodes of the FX drama Sons of Anarchy in 2012 and appeared as a guest on an episode of Talking Dead.

In January 2012, Dave Navarro became host and judge on the Paramount show Ink Master.

On February 8,2020, Dave Navarro performed with Jane's Addiction at a memorial show for Andrew Burkle, son of billionaire Ronald Burkle who died in January 2020.

Dave Navarro was photographed for the first time in 23 years with his former Red Hot Chili Peppers bandmates, who performed.

Dave Navarro sat out a joint tour between Jane's Addiction and the Smashing Pumpkins in 2022 due to long COVID; his place was filled by Queens of the Stone Age guitarist Troy Van Leeuwen for the duration of the tour.

Dave Navarro is seen in the film "Gift" and the "Stop" video playing a blue Ibanez RG, which suggests it was used in the recording of the album Ritual de lo Habitual.

Dave Navarro began using PRS Guitars on the Lollapalooza tour in 1991.

Dave Navarro has several models in his regular stage and studio rig, and was only the third PRS artist to have both a Maryland-made and SE version of their Signature Model.

Dave Navarro used a Parker Fly Deluxe for the Chili Peppers days during the live versions of "My Friends".

Dave Navarro used it for its clean tones and its piezoelectric pickup that sounds similar to an acoustic guitar.

Dave Navarro had a Modulus Stratocaster-like guitar made for him.

Dave Navarro has been seen playing Kramer Van Halen Signature Guitars, Fender Telecasters, Takamine Acoustic 12 strings, and even a Squier Hello Kitty Stratocaster given to him by Carmen.

Dave Navarro previously used a vintage Marshall JCM800, but now plays through two Marshall JCM900 amplifiers which are dubbed Tangerine and Peach.

Dave Navarro uses a BOSS Octave Pedal, two BOSS DD3 Digital Delays, a BOSS Turbo distortion for extra volume during soloing, a Dunlop Cry Baby Wah Pedal and several others.