KORN Frontman Hits The Big 4-0

January 18, 2011

According to The Pulse Of Radio, KORN frontman Jonathan Davis turns 40 on Tuesday (January 18). Davis was born in 1971 in Bakersfield, California to parents Rick Davis and Holly Chavez. Rick played keyboards for Buck Owens and Frank Zappa, while Holly was an actress and dancer. After his parents divorced when he was three, Jonathan lived with his father and stepmother, with whom Jonathan did not have a good relationship.

Davis attended mortuary school and worked as a mortician for a while after graduating from high school. He told The Pulse Of Radio he'd still be in that line of work today if he wasn't in a band. "I'd probably be a coroner investigator," he said. "I went to mortuary college, you know, and worked in funeral homes and worked at the coroner's office doing autopsies, but I really wanted to be an investigator. That's really what I wanted to do, other than be in a band."

Jonathan Davis was the last member to join KORN in 1993. He was fronting a band called SEXART when KORN guitarists James "Munky" Shaffer and Brian "Head" Welch came to watch him for a few minutes and stayed for the entire set. Bassist Reginald "Fieldy" Arvizu called a few days later and asked him to join the band.

KORN's self-titled debut album was released in 1994 and went on to sell more than two million copies. Each of its next four records, including 1996's "Life Is Peachy", 1998's "Follow The Leader", 1999's "Issues" and 2002's "Untouchables" went multi-platinum. Davis became an iconic frontman of the so-called "nu-metal" genre, wearing either Adidas tracksuits or Scottish kilts onstage, and often playing the bagpipe.

KORN's latest album, "Korn III - Remember Who You Are", came out last year. Davis, Arvizu and Shaffer are the band's remaining original members.

Davis' lyrics are often fueled by hate and anger, and he told The Pulse Of Radio a few years back that he always has a steady supply of both. "Like any human being, I don't think that things go on in life that don't piss you off, and I just zero in on those things and write about 'em in my music, is how I get 'em out," he said. "I don't know any human being that can say that they've always been happy and never get pissed off."

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