Jonathan Davis

Jonathan Howsmon Davis (born January 18, 1971), also known as JD, is an American musician who is the lead vocalist and frontman of nu metal band Korn. A pioneering act of the nu metal genre, Korn's music along with Davis's distinctive personality influenced a generation of musicians and performers who have come after them. Davis co-founded Korn in Bakersfield in 1993 with the dissolution of two bands, Sexart and L.A.P.D. He had led Sexart during his years as an assistant coroner. Davis rapidly gained notability for his intense and powerful live performances with Korn. From 2000 to 2001, Davis and Richard Gibbs wrote and produced the score and soundtrack album of Queen of the Damned, his first work outside the band. He began his side project called Jonathan Davis and the SFA in 2007 and continued to experiment with musical styles. He released his first solo album in 2018. Davis is known for his personal, passionate lyrics and unusual tenor vocals. His vocals, which alternate from an angry tone to a high-pitched voice, switching from sounding atmospheric to aggressively screaming, have been the trademark of Korn throughout the band's career. He is also a multi-instrumentalist who plays guitar, drums, bagpipes, piano, upright bass, violin, and clarinet on occasion. Davis has collaborated with various artists over the course of his career, ranging from metal to alternative rock, rap, world music, and electronic music. He has also mixed tracks and performed DJ sets as his alter ego, JDevil. For decades, Davis has been passionate about visual arts, horror films, comics and video games.