81 Facts About Jonathan Davis

Jonathan Davis is the lead vocalist and frontman of nu metal band Korn, which is considered a pioneering act of the nu metal genre.

Jonathan Davis rapidly gained notoriety for his intense and powerful live performances with Korn.

Jonathan Davis began his side project called Jonathan Davis and the SFA in 2007 and continued to experiment with musical styles.

Jonathan Davis has collaborated with various artists over the course of his career, ranging from metal to alternative rock, rap, world music, and electronic music.

Jonathan Davis is a multi-instrumentalist musician who plays guitar, drums, bagpipes, piano, upright bass, violin, and the clarinet.

Jonathan Davis is versatile in many genres, mixing tracks and performs DJ sets with his alter ego JDevil.

For decades, Jonathan Davis has been passionate about visual arts, horror films, comics and video games.

Jonathan Davis won two Grammy Awards out of eight nominations throughout his career.

Jonathan Howsmon Davis was born in Bakersfield, California, on January 18,1971, the son of Holly Marie Chavez.

Jonathan Davis is of English, German, Scottish, and Welsh descent.

Jonathan Davis's father was a keyboardist for Buck Owens and Frank Zappa, while his mother was a professional actress and dancer.

Jonathan Davis's parents divorced when he was three years old.

Jonathan Davis attended Highland High School; however, he was persistently harassed for wearing eyeliner, baggy clothes, and listening to new wave music.

Jonathan Davis was constantly called homophobic names, which later inspired the Korn song "Faget".

At the age of 16, Jonathan Davis found employment as a coroner's assistant; after graduating high school, he immediately enrolled in the San Francisco college's one-year coronary program.

Jonathan Davis enjoyed his time in San Francisco, where he spent his days poring over embalming textbooks and his nights living and working in funeral homes.

Jonathan Davis was a professional embalmer for a funeral home.

Jonathan Davis did not get along with his stepmom and has accused her of harassing him and doing things like giving him tea mixed with Thai hot oil and jalapeno juice to drink when he was sick.

Jonathan Davis mentioned that she mixed tabasco with his tea.

Jonathan Davis formed his first group with other members in a mysterious formation called Buck Naked, of which only two songs were recorded on demo tapes and distributed to his friends in High School; including New Wave-oriented song "What I Have Done", and a love song "Come With Me".

Jonathan Davis, who worked by day in a mortuary, got free haircuts at a college where guitarist Ryan Shuck was a student.

Jonathan Davis described the experience, "I had no clue what I was doing, I didn't know what the hell to do with my voice".

Jonathan Davis, who was already a friend of Reginald Arvizu's, was reluctant to join Creep, although he was flattered by the obstinacy of the musicians to integrate him into the group.

In January 2018, Jonathan Davis released his first solo single, "What It Is".

At that time, Jonathan Davis said he was "a big fan" of science fiction movies such as Blade Runner and Dune, and noted being an admirer of Vangelis.

Jonathan Davis contributed mainly to the sound of the album, playing guitar, keys, and "anything else he could get his hands on to the record".

On October 1,2020, Jonathan Davis released an alternate country version of "What It Is".

Jonathan Davis has been DJing since 1987 while he was still in high school.

At 16, before he joined Korn, Jonathan Davis started out as a DJ working for Pacific West Sound and spun at high school dances and parties on the weekends in Bakersfield.

Jonathan Davis used to spin New York freestyle, Miami bass, old school hip hop, goth, and industrial.

Jonathan Davis only performed at two shows, Comcast Center in Mansfield, Massachusetts, and Jiffy Lube Live in Bristow, Virginia.

Pop Scars never made it past the early design stages, as Jonathan Davis himself pulled the plug on the project in late 2004.

In 2002, Jonathan Davis was hired by New Line Television to write and record the theme music of UPN's The Twilight Zone television series, hosted by Forest Whitaker.

Jonathan Davis created the title track for the 2022 video game ELEX II.

Jonathan Davis has been featured in many other bands' music videos, sometimes with Korn and sometimes solo.

Jonathan Davis has appeared with Korn in the Limp Bizkit music videos for "Break Stuff" and "Faith".

Jonathan Davis appeared in the music video for "Fire" by Busta Rhymes.

In January 2000, Jonathan Davis made an appearance at an Xtreme Pro Wrestling show as a guest ring announcer; he would be brought on by the host of that night's event to announce the next match and its participants.

Jonathan Davis has a cameo in Queen of the Damned as a ticket scalper.

Jonathan Davis plays a minor role as Ricky, a crack dealer, in the film Seeing Other People.

Jonathan Davis had a role as a store clerk in the 2007 independent film The Still Life.

Jonathan Davis is a tenor with a vocal range of four octaves and four notes.

In 2014, Jonathan Davis appeared on the VVN Music's list of "the vocalists with the largest range".

Jonathan Davis's voice is definitely a factor in what most consider to make or break Korn's music for them, however he is definitely a unique staple of the 90s and modern rock scene.

The Rough Guide to Rock writer Essi Berelian described Jonathan Davis's singing voice: his "unusual style varied between singing, half-rapping and breathless shrieking".

Jonathan Davis has said that his earliest musical inspiration during his childhood was the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical Jesus Christ Superstar, as his mother was one of the dancers in the movie.

Jonathan Davis grew up listening to '80s music such as Arcadia, Sigue Sigue Sputnik; Bauhaus, Depeche Mode, Thompson Twins; Missing Persons and Flock of Seagulls.

Jonathan Davis bought Motley Crue's album Shout At The Devil when he was in seventh grade, then found Ministry, Skinny Puppy, and "old goth stuff" like Christian Death.

Jonathan Davis was first impressed with metal when he heard Vulgar Display of Power by Pantera, he stated it was "the metal record that made me wanna do heavy music".

Jonathan Davis was interested in pipe band music during his youth, which prefigured later Korn's use of bagpipes in several songs.

Jonathan Davis's great-grandmother was from Scotland and played pipe records for him.

Jonathan Davis was inspired to play the bagpipes by a scene in the 1982 film Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, in which the character Mr Scott played "Amazing Grace" on the Great Highland bagpipes at the funeral of Mr Spock.

Jonathan Davis's enthusiasm led his grandmother to give him his first set of bagpipes, then he began by joining the Highland High School pipe band, and taking lessons from the band's Scottish conductor.

Jonathan Davis started competing after that, across the United States at established gigs.

Jonathan Davis clarified: "it depends the song, if I'm feeling like there's a spot where I could use it".

Korn's repertoire containing Jonathan Davis's bagpipes includes, "Shoots and Ladders", "Low Rider" from Korn's album Life is Peachy.

On July 23,1999, Jonathan Davis performed his bagpipe routine in front of more than 250,000 attendees during the Korn concert at the Woodstock Festival in New York in a long weekend of anarchy and uproar.

Jonathan Davis asked Giger for a microphone stand that was both "biomechanical and very erotic", giving him complete freedom of design.

Giger and his assistant Roni emailed photos of the progress to the United States; during this process Jonathan Davis gave his approval and asked him for some minor adjustments, so he could grab it more easily for his live performances.

Jonathan Davis has been sponsored by Shure microphones since the mid 1990s and continues to use them for live performances.

Jonathan Davis has used wireless KSM9 and KSM8 models in recent years.

Jonathan Davis uses a variety of microphones in the studio including the Telefunken U47 and ELA M 251.

Jonathan Davis said that when he tried to turn to his family as a child to tell them about the abuse, they shrugged it off and did not believe him.

Jonathan Davis filed for divorce in October 2016, citing irreconcilable differences.

In 2018, a domestic violence restraining order was issued, blocking any child custody or visitation by Deven, whom Jonathan Davis alleged was deep into drugs.

Deven Jonathan Davis died on August 17,2018, at the age of 39 of combined drug intoxication from heroin and various prescription drugs.

Jonathan Davis had a history of excessive methamphetamine abuse and alcohol consumption during the recording sessions of Korn and Life Is Peachy.

Jonathan Davis got himself off methamphetamine addiction when he was 28 during the fall's inaugural Family Values Tour.

In 2013, Jonathan Davis was treated for Xanax addiction, and openly smoked marijuana until 2015.

Korn resumed touring on August 27,2021, at Tinley Park, Illinois, where the stage featured a custom throne for Jonathan Davis to sit in.

Jonathan Davis was seen moving slowly around the stage, coughing, appearing to struggle catching his breath, and occasionally using an oxygen tank.

In March 2003, Jonathan Davis suggested funding the museum through a film or TV production.

Subsequently, Jonathan Davis pulled out of the deal which fell apart, leading Rosenblatt to sue him twice; Rosenblatt accused Jonathan Davis of having spoken to the media in 2002 about his museum project with artist Joe Coleman and mis-naming it American Curiosities Museum when he should have used the names provided for in the contract.

Nevertheless, in December 2005, Jonathan Davis started selling off his serial killer memorabilia, claiming his desire to move away from this environment, stating: "I don't want that around my kids".

Jonathan Davis later denounced the items and got rid of them.

Jonathan Davis has developed an interest in collection of taxidermy art.

Jonathan Davis has expressed support for libertarian Republican candidates Ron Paul and Rand Paul.

In 2012, Jonathan Davis began visiting United States Armed Forces stationed in Europe.

On March 16,2012, Jonathan Davis made his first visit to Ramstein Air Base, Germany where he visited with personnel assigned to the 86th Airlift Wing and Landstuhl Regional Medical Center.

Jonathan Davis did a meet and greet signing autographs for the troops and their families at the AAFES Military Mall.

Jonathan Davis visited wounded warriors from all over the world at Landstuhl Regional Medical Center and the USO Wounded Warriors Center.