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Template:Guitarist infobox David Marchand [1] (born David Anthony Passaro, on November 20, 1975, in Rochester, New York) more commonly known by the stage name Davey Havok, is the lead vocalist of the band AFI.

Biography

He was born of Italian-American ancestry in New York. At the age of three his father passed away; and as his mother later re-married, he took on the surname of his stepfather; Marchand. When Havok was six years old, he and his family moved from Rochester to Ukiah, California. There, Davey attended Catholic school in Ukiah until the eighth grade.

Music career

For more information please see; AFI.

During high school, his friends Mark Stopholese and Vic Chalker wanted to start a band (which would become AFI). Unfortunately, they had several problems; chief amongst them was that their lack of a drummer, Mark suggested his friend Adam Carson be in the band. Furthermore, they didn't know how to play any instruments, but they knew that Davey had a good voice, and Adam had a drum set. So Mark learned guitar and Vic learned bass (he was later replaced by Geoff Kresge who would go on to play bass for Tiger Army).

Shortly after high school, the band broke up and Davey moved to Berkeley, California, where he attended UC Berkeley, planning to double major in English and Psychology. He began constantly writing lyrics to songs that would eventually appear on the albums "Answer That and Stay Fashionable" and "Very Proud of Ya".

In a memorable band reunion,they put together a show that showed that they were actually starting to have fans, the band played at the Phoenix Theatre for several hundreds of fans. They decided to reunite and record an album. In 1995, "Answer That and Stay Fashionable" was released on Wingnut Records (re-released in 1997 on Nitro Records). Geoff left during a tour for "Very Proud of Ya" and was replaced by Hunter Burgan . Hunter would eventually become the permanent replacement for Geoff. Hunter was still in The Force until he permanently joined AFI during the "A Fire Inside EP". However, before that, AFI released their third full length release, "Shut Your Mouth and Open Your Eyes" , in which Davey started getting very serious about his lyrics. He started singing about religion, humanity and other more serious issues.

The next release was the "A Fire Inside" EP. It featured covers of "The Hanging Garden", in which Davey got to flaunt Robert Smith influences, and "Demonomania" by the Misfits. Afterwards, Mark was asked to leave the band. His replacement was Jade Puget, the band's old friend from high school who said he would join after he graduated college. AFI then released their first full length release with Hunter and Jade, "Black Sails In The Sunset". In fall of that year, they released the "All Hallows" extended play, which has gathered a cult following among the fanbase, and is perhaps their most popular EP.

In 2000, they released "The Art of Drowning" to fair record sales, but great acclaim by fans of the band. The group had toured with one of Havok's favourite bands, Samhain, on their reunion tour. As a result Havok joined three Samhain musicians, Steve Zing, London May and Todd Youth, they recorded an album under the name Son of Sam titled "Songs from the Earth", it even featured a guest appearance from Glenn Danzig.

Following his return to AFI, then toured for a few years releasing a few extended plays along the way. In 2003, the band's first major label release, "Sing the Sorrow" , came out, attaining great record sales with perhaps their most popular single to date, "Girl's Not Grey".

On June 6th, 2006, AFI fans rejoiced at the release of the new album, "Decemberunderground" on Interscope Records. Havok, along with AFI, is now on tour promoting the new album.

Glitterboy Clothing Line

Glitter Boy Clothing was a short lived fashion line by Havok put together in the time where Davey had long hair, in collaboration with designers of the Serious clothing line. It was partly inspired by the 70s glam music scene, among other things. The line was canceled due to creative differences between Havok and Serious. However, on a side note, Havok has said that he is planning another clothing line for the future, but it will be done through a different company; and chances are that it will not be called Glitter Boy. According to Havok, the new line of clothing will be out in 2007.

Trivia

  • Havok has a plethora of tattoos, including the word Moz tattooed on his right wrist (for Morrissey), each letter enclosed in a heart, a pair of large black wings on his back,which is covering a dodo bird, and a flaming heart on his chest. He has daggers on his left and right ribs,the one on the right has a X on it and the left side has a jack-o-latern, a black rabbit with pink wings on the top of his foot, black hearts behind both ears(one is broken), nautical stars down both his collar bones. There are hands in prayer with X's on them toward his left bicep and also 3 Xs (symbolizing his Straight Edge lifestyle) on his right wrist, as well as Nightmare Before Christmas imagery in a sleeve on his right arm, and Halloween imagery on his left arm.Havok also has "what she said" on his right fingers,on his lower stomach he has"love will tear us apart" going across.On his calf he has the VNV Nation"darkangel," his left leg has the sXe symbol and his right leg has a Death By Stereo logo (a skull with lightning bolts going through it) and an alleyway dragon.
  • Havok has a lip piercing in the right corner of his lip that he has had for several years. He also had a Monroe piercing but for a very short time. His ear lobe piercings are stretched to around 1/2 an inch.
  • Davey Havok is Straight Edge and Vegan.
  • Alongside Jade Puget from AFI, Havok is involved in an electronic side-project named Blaqk Audio.
  • To date Havok has appeared in two movies; "Live Freaky Die Freaky" and "Mary Jane's Not A Virgin Anymore".
  • He is mentioned in the song Mattersville by NOFX ("At the end of my cul de sac, Davey Havok's house is painted black").

Discography

With AFI

Albums

EPs


With Son of Sam

Guest appearances

Havok has appeared as a guest vocalist on releases from various other bands.

References

  1. ^ Davey Havok at Notable Names Database
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