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David Michael Draiman (born March 13, 1976 in Flatbush, Brooklyn, New York) is the lead singer for the band Disturbed, which hails from Chicago, Illinois. He was born to an Orthodox Jewish family.

He is one of five artists who sang for the Queen of the Damned soundtrack, along with Wayne Static of Static-X, Jay Gordon of Orgy, Chester Bennington of Linkin Park, and Marilyn Manson. He originally left his family and beliefs behind to become a rock star, which upset his grandfather (who was also a Holocaust survivor), and further produced the album Believe as a response to his grandfather’s death. He attended Loyola University where he triple majored in business administration, political science, and philosophy. He was seriously considering law school before he joined the band, which he discovered in an ad in the Illinois Entertainer, a local music publication in Chicago. In 2003 he also started his own record label, Intoxication Records, along with band member/guitarist, Dan Donegan, and drummer, Mike Wengren.