1. David Michael Navarro was born on June 7,1967 and is an American guitarist.
54 Facts About Dave Navarro
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Dave Navarro is best known as a member of the rock band Jane's Addiction, with whom he has recorded four studio albums.
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Between 1993 and 1998, Dave Navarro was the guitarist of Red Hot Chili Peppers, recording one studio album, One Hot Minute, before departing.
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Dave Navarro has released one solo album, Trust No One.
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Dave Navarro has been a member of Jane's Addiction-related bands Deconstruction and the Panic Channel.
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Dave Navarro was a host and judge on Ink Master, an American tattoo competition reality series that aired on Paramount Network from 2012 to 2020 and Paramount+ since 2022.
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Dave Navarro departed the show in 2022 after its 14th season.
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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.
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Dave Navarro picked up the guitar at age 7, being inspired by his cousin, singer-songwriter Dan Dave Navarro.
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Dave Navarro stated that he learned a lot from Robert Smith of the Cure and Daniel Ash of Bauhaus.
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Dave Navarro said: "And I have always loved all the different guitarists that have been in Siouxsie and the Banshees".
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Dave Navarro joined the band Jane's Addiction in 1986 as the lead guitarist after he was recommended to vocalist Perry Farrell by Perkins.
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In 1993, Dave Navarro formed Deconstruction with Jane's Addiction's Eric Avery on vocals and bass and Michael Murphy on drums.
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The only album on which Dave Navarro played with Red Hot Chili Peppers, One Hot Minute, was released in 1995.
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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.
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Dave Navarro toured with Jane's Addiction for their 1997 Relapse tour with Flea on bass.
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Dave Navarro remixed Janet Jackson's "What'll I Do" for her Janet Remixed album during this time.
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In 1999, Dave Navarro appeared in a guest role as an escaped prison convict on an episode of Martial Law titled "Friendly Skies", alongside fellow rock musicians Bret Michaels, Rick Springfield and David Silveria.
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In 2002, Michael Jackson performed at the Apollo Theater for the Democratic National Convention, and Dave Navarro was set to play guitar for his hit song "Black or White".
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Dave Navarro appeared in two tournaments on Celebrity Poker Showdown in 2004.
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Dave Navarro co-hosted with Brooke Burke, two seasons of the Mark Burnett television series: Rock Star: INXS and Rock Star: Supernova.
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Dave Navarro soon broadened his creativity with an internet talk show called: Dave Navarro's SPREAD TV, which was streamed on ManiaTV.
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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.
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Dave Navarro appeared in Season 1 and Season 2 of Z Rock with Brooklyn-based band ZO2 on IFC.
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Dave Navarro stripped down again for the group's anti animal-testing campaign in 2013.
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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.
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The Red Hot Chili Peppers were named 2012 inductees to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, but Dave Navarro was not included among the band's members inducted.
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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.
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In January 2012, Dave Navarro became host and judge on the Paramount show Ink Master.
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In 2019, Dave Navarro formed an art collective known as Duel Diagnosis specializing in "apparel, art, and spectacle" focused on conversations regarding mental health and illness.
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In 2020, Dave Navarro began jamming with Chris Chaney and Taylor Hawkins, ultimately forming the "Yacht Goth" supergroup NHC.
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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.
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Dave Navarro was photographed for the first time in 23 years with his former Red Hot Chili Peppers bandmates, who performed.
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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.
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Dave Navarro was again absent from Jane's Addiction on their 2023 tour while still battling the effects of long COVID, and Josh Klinghoffer played guitar in his place.
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Jane's Addiction returned to the studio in 2023 to record new material and announced that Dave Navarro hadn't participated due to his ongoing struggle with long COVID.
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Dave Navarro returned to the band in May 2024 with the classic Jane's Addiction lineup performing their first show together in fourteen years on May 23,2024.
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Dave Navarro acknowledged animosity between the band members and said that Avery had physically attacked Perry during the incident.
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On November 19,2024, Dave Navarro announced the fourth installment of the "Above Ground" benefit concert, scheduled to take place on January 25,2025, at The Fonda Theatre in Hollywood, California.
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In 2015, Dave Navarro released the documentary Mourning Son, which details his abuse at the hands of Riccardi, 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.
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The documentary culminated in Dave Navarro meeting his mother's killer in prison.
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Dave Navarro has been married four times, to celebrity makeup artist Tania Goddard-Saylor ; Rhian Gittins ; model and actress Carmen Electra ; and recently married actress Vanessa Dubasso in Scotland on March 29,2025.
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In interviews in 2022 and 2024, Dave Navarro described his persistent health struggles with long COVID that led to a hiatus from Jane's Addiction and a departure from Ink Master.
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Dave Navarro had stated he was supporting Marianne Williamson as a candidate for the 2020 Democratic presidential primaries.
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Dave Navarro subsequently expressed support for Tulsi Gabbard, including having her on his show.
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Dave Navarro began using PRS Guitars on the Lollapalooza tour in 1991.
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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.
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Dave Navarro used a blue Parker Fly guitar during his stint in RHCP, for songs that required an acoustic sound live.
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In 2019 through Guitar Center LA, Dave Navarro was reunited with his Custom Ibanez RG with Nothing Shocking graphic after it came into their store.
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Dave Navarro pawned it for drug money back in the '90s and forgot to pick the guitar back up.
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For music videos, Dave Navarro has primarily been seen to use Danelectro guitars, Fernandes guitars, Gibson Flying V, and Custom Shop Fender Stratocasters.
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Dave Navarro has used a Fernandes Mini Traveling NOMAD guitar to record the guitar solo on "Walkabout".
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In 2022, Dave Navarro switched over to using Friedman amps live.
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On September 18,2024, Dave Navarro announced a collaboration between himself, Supreme, and Jim Dunlop to release a limited edition Wah-wah Pedal.