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David Anthony Marchand (born on November 20, 1975, in Rochester, New York) is the lead vocalist for the band AFI. He is more commonly known by his stage name, Davey Havok.

Life

When he was five years old, he and his family moved from Rochester to Ukiah, California. There, Davey attended Catholic school in Ukiah until the eighth grade. During high school, his friends Markus Stopholese and Vic Chalker wanted to start a band( 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 future Tiger Army bassist Geoff Kresge ).

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, put together by one of their classmates, 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 do his best Robert Smith impersonation, 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 EP. In 2000, they released The Art Of Drowning to fair record sales, but great acclaim by fans of the band. AFI then toured for a few years releasing a few EPs along the way. In 2003, the band's first major label release, Sing the Sorrow , came out, getting great record sales, but losing many of the older fans, whom considered the album to be somewhat corporate, and lacking in the older hardcore punk sound of their previous releases.

In June 2006, AFI released their album Decemberunderground. It debuted at number 1.

Glitterboy Clothing Line

Glitter Boy Clothing was a short lived fashion line by Havok put together in 2005, in collaboration with designers of the Serious clothing line. It was partly inspired by the 70's 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.

Sexuality

Davey's sexuality has been the subject of much debate between fans. The claim of one side of the disagreement is that Davey is unarguabley homosexual or, in some cases, bisexual. There have been numerous claims that Davey has come out to the public, though such claims are always uncited and discredible.

In fact, AFI (in most cases, Jade) have made numerous statements as to Davey's sexuality via their official messageboard and myspace. The band has stated:

"Sorry To Burst Your Bubble... but Davey is not gay. Or bi. Get over it. Just because your friend heard he was gay or you read it on some message board doesn't make it so. However, since I've made posts like this repeatedly over the years and people still refuse to believe he's not gay, I guess we'll have to keep hearing about it ad infinitum. I say we talk about Fritch. Or Smith. They're DEFINITELY gay, I caught them holding hands and plus they went to the prom together. Also, my friend heard YOU were gay." -Jade Puget

Regardless to statements made by the group, rumors continue to spread claiming the reverse.

Discography

A Fire Inside

Albums

• Answer That and Stay Fashionable (1995)
• Very Proud of Ya (1996)
• Shut Your Mouth and Open Your Eyes (1997)
• Black Sails in the Sunset (1999)
• The Art of Drowning (2000)
• Sing the Sorrow (2003)
• Decemberunderground (2006)

EPs

• Dork (split with Loose Change) (EP) (1993)
• Behind the Times (EP) (1993)
• Eddie Picnic's All Wet (live) (EP) (1994)
• This Is Berkeley, Not West Bay (EP) (1994)
• Bombing the Bay (split with Swingin' Utters) (EP) (1995)
• Fly in the Ointment (EP) (1995)
• AFI/Heckle Split (split with Heckle (band)) (EP) (1995)
• A Fire Inside (EP) (1998)
• Black Sails (EP) (1999)
• All Hallow's EP (EP) (1999)
• The Days of the Phoenix (EP) (2001)
• 336 (also known as "Now the World Picture Disc") (EP) (2002)

Son Of Sam

• "Songs From The Earth"

Trivia

• Havok is Italian American.
• Havok has a plethora of tattoos, including a pair of large black wings on his back and a flaming heart on his chest, daggers on his left and right ribs, a rabbit with wings on the top of his foot, black hearts behind both ears,nautical stars down both his collar bones, hands in prayer with X's on them toward his left bicep, as well as both arms sleeved with halloween imagery with direct references to Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas.
• 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.
• Havok loaned his voice to The Nerve Agents for their 2nd release, Days of the White Owl on the song, "Jekyl and Hyde."
• Havok provided backing vocals for The Offspring's 4th and 5th albums Ixnay on the Hombre and Americana.
• Havok also has provided many backup vocals for Tiger Army
• Havok is mentioned in the song Mattersville by NOFX ("At the end of my cul de sac/Davey Havok's house is painted black")
• Havok also provided backup vocals on the Dance Hall Crashers song "I Don't Wanna Behave", from the album Lockjaw.
• Alongside Jade Puget from AFI, Havok is involved in an electronic side-project named Blaqk Audio.
• Havok also was a guest vocalist on The Transplants song "Quick Death".
• Havok sings on the song Blue Strip by the band Fury 66
• Havok appears on Bleeding Through's DVD, Wolves Among Sheep.
• Havok appears in the Live Freaky Die Freaky movie.
• Havok appears in the Mary Jane's Not A Virgin Anymore movie.

References

1. Davey Havok at Notable Names Database

• A Fire Inside
• 1975 births
• Italian-American musicians
• Living people
• American male singers
• American vegans