1. William Bradley DuVall was born on September 6,1967 and is an American musician best known as the current co-lead vocalist and rhythm guitarist for the rock band Alice in Chains.
25 Facts About William DuVall
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William DuVall won an ASCAP Pop Music Award for co-writing the song "I Know" for Dionne Farris in 1996, and has earned three Grammy Award nominations as a member of Alice in Chains.
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William DuVall is co-founder, lead singer, guitarist, and lyricist for Comes with the Fall.
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William Bradley DuVall was born in Washington, DC, on September 6,1967.
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When William DuVall was fourteen years old, he moved to Atlanta, Georgia with his mother and stepfather, who had taken a job in the city.
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William DuVall has cited Jimi Hendrix as an early influence after listening to his cousin's copy of Band of Gypsys when he was eight years old and becoming impressed by Hendrix's guitar.
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In 1983, William DuVall helped found the controversial Atlanta-based hardcore punk band Neon Christ, contributing guitars and lyrics to the band's albums.
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William DuVall did not stay with the band long enough to record on the album.
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In 1987, William DuVall formed the Final Offering with vocalist Randy Gue, Corrosion of Conformity bassist Mike Dean, and drummer Greg Psomas.
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William DuVall spent the late 1980s with a Hendrix-inspired band, No Walls.
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William DuVall gave a demo tape to Living Colour lead guitarist Vernon Reid backstage at a show on their tour with the Rolling Stones in 1989.
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William DuVall won an ASCAP Pop Music Award for it in 1996.
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The recording process was completed on Cantrell's 43rd birthday, which was the day that William DuVall's son was born, on March 18,2009.
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William DuVall wrote a song called "Tongue Tied" about his friend Sean Costello, who died in 2008, but the track was cut from the album.
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William DuVall wrote the lyrics and the guitar solo for the track, the first solo he composed for Alice in Chains.
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Cantrell is the primary lead singer of Alice in Chains' post-Staley albums, while William DuVall takes Staley's role while performing the band's old songs live.
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In 2016, William DuVall released the album Broken Lines with the supergroup Giraffe Tongue Orchestra, founded by lead guitarist Ben Weinman of the Dillinger Escape Plan, and featuring guitarist Brent Hinds of Mastodon, drummer Thomas Pridgen of the Mars Volta, and bassist Wielbert Collinson of Dethklok and Zappa Plays Zappa.
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The second single, "So Far Under", was written by William DuVall, who played the guitar solo on the track.
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William DuVall released his first solo album, One Alone, on October 4,2019, through his label DVL.
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William DuVall announced a European tour for March and April 2020.
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In 2023, William DuVall contributed vocals to a new version of the song "This Is Mongol" from the second album by Mongolian folk metal band the Hu, titled Rumble of Thunder.
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William DuVall was an extra in the 2001 science fiction film Mimic 2 and had a non-speaking uncredited role in the 2003 film Confidence, starring Ed Burns and Rachel Weisz.
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William DuVall played a bar patron in the opening scene.
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William DuVall directed a documentary about jazz drummer Milford Graves, titled Ancient to Future: The Wisdom of Milford Graves.
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William DuVall has a son, born on March 18,2009, the same day he finished recording his first studio album with Alice in Chains, Black Gives Way to Blue.