David Draiman

David Michael Draiman is a songwriter and the lead singer for the band Disturbed, from Chicago, Illinois.

After attending Yeshiva High School at the Wisconsin Institute for Torah Study in Milwaukee, the Fasman Yeshiva High School and Ida Crown Jewish Academy in Chicago, and Valley Torah High School in North Hollywood, California, he spent the 1991-1992 academic year at the Neveh Zion Yeshiva "NEVEH" (not Ner Jake) in Telz-Stone, Jerusalem. Draiman then triple majored in Business Administration, Philosophy, and Political Science at Loyola University. When Draiman was sixteen years old, he experienced the suicide of a girlfriend. He later wrote a song about it, titled "Inside the Fire", which appeared on the 2008 album Indestructible.He claims he is libertarian.

Draiman was seriously considering law school before he auditioned for the band after finding an ad in an Illinois newspaper. The audition was for Brawl, after their last singer, Erich Awalt, had left the band. He joined in 1996, changing the band name to Disturbed. He originally left his family and beliefs behind to become a rockstar, which upset his grandfather who was a Holocaust survivor, and further produced the album Believe as a response to his grandfather's death.

In 2006, Draiman was added to the Hit Parader "Heavy Metal's All-Time Top 100 Vocalists" at number 42.