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BLP sources|date=October 2008Infobox musical artist| name = Davey Havok| image = Davey Havok 2011.png| alt =| caption = 2011| image_size =| background = solo_singer| birth_name = David Paden Passaro| alias =| birth_date = birth date and age|1975|11|20| birth_place = Rochester, New York , United States|US | origin = Ukiah, California , US| genre = Alternative rock , hardcore punk , deathrock , synthpop , darkwave , Electronic body music|EBM | occupation = Singing|Singer , actor , Fashion design|fashion designer | years_active = 1991–present| label =| associated_acts = AFI (band)|AFI Son of Sam (band)|Son of Sam Blaqk Audio | website = http://afireinside.net afireinside.net http://blaqkaudio.com blaqkaudio.com David Paden Marchand (born November 20, 1975, in Rochester, New York|Rochester , New York ), best known by his stage name Davey Havok , is the lead vocalist of the American rock band AFI (band)|AFI and the electronic music band Blaqk Audio .
Havok is an outspoken advocate of the straight edge lifestyle and veganism .cite web |url= http://www.peta2.com/OUTTHERE/o_davey_havok_zu_boutique.asp |title=Davey Havok's DIY Vegan Testimonial |author=Patricia Trostle |publisher= People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals|peta2 cite news |title=Body on the line |newspaper= Southern Courier |date=Feb 2, 2010 |page=30 |author=Nick Moncrieff-Hill |url= http://digitaledition.southerncourier.com.au/default.aspx? iid=32952& startpage=page0000030#folio=030
Biography
Havok was born as David Paden Passaro in Rochester, New York , and is of Italian people|Italian ancestry.cite news |title=AFI aims to conquer |author=Sullivan, James |newspaper= San Francisco Chronicle |date=Mar 9, 2003 At the age of three, his father died, and when his mother later remarried, he took on the surname of his stepfather, Marchand. Metal Hammer interview, February 2003 When Havok was six years old, he and his family moved from Rochester to Ukiah, California . There, Havok attended Catholic school until the eighth grade.cite web |url= http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jon-chattman/afis-davey-havok-weighs-i_b_302042.html |title=AFI's Davey Havok Weighs In on Rock Band, Surviving Catholic School, and Crash Love |author=Chattman, Jon |date=Sep 29, 2009 |publisher= The Huffington Post
In high school one day, he and his friends Mark Stopholese and Vic Chalker decided to start a band, even though they did not own or play any instruments. Stopholese suggested that his friend Adam Carson join the band as a drummer, because he knew Carson owned a drum set. Austin Scaggs interview with Davey Havok. Rolling Stone .
Shortly after high school, the band broke up and Havok moved to Berkeley, California , where he attended UC Berkeley , planning to double major in English studies|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 .
The band played at the Phoenix Theater for several hundred fans. Following the good reception from the fans, they decided to reunite and record an album. In 1995, the band's first album Answer That and Stay Fashionable was released on Wingnut Records and in 1996, their second album Very Proud of Ya was released on Nitro Records . In 1997, the band released their third full length album, Shut Your Mouth and Open Your Eyes .
The next release was the A Fire Inside EP . It featured covers of The Cure 's "The Hanging Garden", and "Demonomania" by Misfits (band)|The Misfits . In 1999, the band released Black Sails in the Sunset , which was the first album to include the current line-up: Havok, Carson, Hunter Burgan and Jade Puget . In the fall of 1999, they released the All Hallows EP .
In 2000, they released The Art of Drowning (album)|The Art of Drowning to fair record sales. The group had toured with another band, Samhain (band)|Samhain , on their reunion tour. Havok later joined three Samhain musicians, Steve Zing , London May and Todd Youth , and recorded an album in the vein of Samhain under the name Son of Sam (band)|Son of Sam , entitled Songs from the Earth . In 2000 when Michale Graves had left the Misfits, Havok was approached by Roadrunner Records to be the new lead singer of Misfits. However, Havok told an interviewer that he'd never leave AFI as it was his own band. http://www.youtube.com/watch? v=ZIjKw48DshY "Malfunction TV Show": Davey Havok Interview
Following Davey's work with Son of Sam, AFI continued to tour for a few years and released a few EPs along the way. In 2003, the band's first major label release, Sing the Sorrow , was released, attaining great record sales.
On June 6, 2006, Decemberunderground was released on Interscope Records . Havok, along with AFI, toured around the world. Along with this concert series, AFI's first DVD, I Heard a Voice – Live from Long Beach Arena was released on December 12, 2006, containing the live concert from Long Beach Arena from September 15, 2006. This DVD was released as in CD version in November 2007.
Havok was voted the winner of peta2 's annual ''World's Sexiest Vegetarian'' contest in 2007.cite web |url= http://www.peta2.com/outthere/o-sexyveg07-winners.asp |title=Havok and Bell: World's Sexiest Vegetarians for 2007& #33; |publisher= People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals|peta2 |author=Patricia Trostlecite web |url= http://www.kerrang.com/blog/2007/07/afi_mainman_voted_07s_sexiest.html |title=AFI mainman voted '07's sexiest vegetarian |publisher= Kerrang! |date=Jul 13, 2007
On August 14, 2007, Havok's new electronic side project with AFI guitarist Jade Puget, Blaqk Audio , released their first album, entitled CexCells . Blaqk Audio went on a two month long American/Canadian tour following the release.
Havok and Jeffree Star modeled for Tarina Tarantino 's jewellery line, Tokyo Hardcore in 2007.cite web |title= Tokyo Hardcore Starring Davey Havok and Jeffree Star |url= http://blogs.laweekly.com/stylecouncil/2007/09/tokyo_hardcore_starring_davey.php |publisher= LA Weekly |date=Sep 12, 2007
In 2009, Havok joined sci-fi movie legend Lance Henriksen and horror movie icons Bill Moseley and Danielle Harris in the cast of the "illustrated film" series Godkiller (series)| Godkiller . Havok voices the antagonist role, a fallen god named Dragos.cite web |author=Gingold, Michael |url= http://fangoriaonline.com/home/news/9-film-news/1516-genre-names-speaking-up-for-godkiller.html |title=Genre Names Speaking Up For Godkiller |publisher= Fangoria |date=Feb 25, 2009
AFI's eighth studio album Crash Love was released on September 29, 2009.
For March 2011, Havok joined the cast of Green Day 's American Idiot (musical)|American Idiot on Broadway theatre|Broadway , playing the role of St. Jimmy.cite news |url= http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/02/09/ap/entertainment/main7334933.shtml |publisher=CBS News |title=Davey Havok, Justin Guarini Join American Idiot |date=Feb 9, 2011
Havok is featured in at least one episode of Tim Armstrong 's musical web series "Tim Timebomb's RockNRoll Theatre".cite web |url= http://www.rollingstone.com/videos/new-and-hot/rancids-tim-armstrong-launches-musical-theater-web-series-20111003 |title=Rancid's Tim Armstrong Launches musical theater web series |publisher= Rolling Stone |date=Oct 3, 2011
Blaqk Audio's next release, Bright Black Heaven is planned for release in early 2012.
Clothing lines
Glitterboy was a short-lived fashion line created by Havok. It was partly inspired by the 70s glam music scene, among other things.cite web |url= http://www.myspace.com/glitterboyclothing/blog |title=Glitterboy - blog on Myspace |publisher=Glitterboy Clothing line Paden was released in 2007 and was available exclusively through Fred Segal clothing stores in California.cite web |url= http://style.popcrunch.com/triple-x-tee-from-the-paden-collection/ |title=“Triple X” Tee From the Paden Collection |publisher= Popcrunch |date=Nov 29, 2007
The currently active clothing line Zu Boutique was launched in August 2008. The line is vegan and features T-shirts with a limited pressing of 100 shirts per design. http://zuboutique.com/ Zu Boutique The line "pays homage to pop culture, forward thinking, and hedonism". A jewelry line was released in March 2009. The jewelry line is a collaboration between Zu Boutique and PNUT Jewelry run by Rusty Pistachio of punk band H2O (American band)|H2O fame. The jewelry is also limited, with only 10 to 90 pieces of each design made. http://shop.zuboutique.com/system/0000/0089/jewelry.html Pnut Jewelery In August 2009, Zu Boutique and Macbeth Footwear collaborated in creating a style of limited edition shoes.cite web |url= http://www.peta2.com/outthere/o-DaveyHavokMacBeth.asp |title=Davey Havok's Macbeth X Zu Boutique Shoes |publisher= peta2
Discography
With AFI
Main|AFI discography
With Son of Sam
Songs from the Earth (2001)
With Blaqk Audio
CexCells (2007)
Bright Black Heaven (upcoming)
Guest appearances
Havok has appeared as a guest vocalist on releases from various other bands, including:
Background vocals on Tiger Army 's Tiger Army (album)|Tiger Army , Tiger Army II: Power of Moonlite , Tiger Army III: Ghost Tigers Rise under a different name and Music from Regions Beyond .
The Transplants song "Quick Death" from their Transplants (album)|self-titled album .
The Nerve Agents track "Jekyl and Hyde" from their second release, Days of the White Owl .
Backing vocals for The Offspring albums Ixnay on the Hombre and Americana (The Offspring album)|Americana .
The Dance Hall Crashers song "I Don't Wanna Behave", from the album Lockjaw .
The Fury 66 track "Blue Strip".
The Heckle (band)|Heckle cover of Misfits (band)|The Misfits song "Astro-Zombies".
Havok also appears on Bleeding Through 's DVD, Wolves Among Sheep .
Havok is seen on the Eighteen Visions 's CD/DVD while recording their Eighteen Visions (album)|self-titled album .
Havok sang a duet with Billie Joe Armstrong twice on Green Day|Green Day's 21st Century Breakdown World Tour|2nd leg of the North American 21st Century Breakdown Tour , which is rumored to be on the next Green Day live album.
Sang the Operation Ivy (band) |Operation Ivy song "Knowledge" with Tim Armstrong and "Radio" with Rancid (band)|Rancid on the Give 'Em the Boot DVD|''Give 'Em the Boot DVD .
Voice featured, along with other hardcore punk luminaries, in an answering machine recording on the All Bets Off album, "Girls About Songs".
Sang a cover of "Straight Edge Revenge" by Project X (band)|Project X alongside the hardcore punk band Ceremony (punk band)|Ceremony on November 6, 2008 in Berkeley California.
Featured vocals in the Scarlet Grey song "The Sky & I" on their album Fancy Blood .
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