Johnathan Davis

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“Time has come, to realize what you are, what you’ve done tonight. Time has come, we’ll have something to talk about. I will too.” In the year of 1971, on January 18th, a baby boy by the name of Jonathan Houseman Davis was born to his mother and father, Mr. Rick Davis. Bakersfield, CA was the city and state to become home to such a talented young boy. Jonathan’s biological mother worked in a local theater. His father worked in a music industry, along with other jobs such as working at a local music store when Jon was a young boy. His early childhood was pretty good from birth to the age of 3. When he was 3 his parents divorced. While most children have problems getting used to a new parents Jonathan’s troubles went a deeper. “ Little child, looking so pretty. Come out and play, I’ll be your daddy. Innocent child, looking so sweet. A rape in my eyes and on your flesh I’ll eat.” These lyrics are from the song “Daddy.” When he was 5 he took up drumming, and when he was 12 his father remarried, that’s when the troubles went deeper. “Looking back I was never ever right, you were my step mom who always wanted me out of your sight.” This is a song wrote when his father got remarried, “kill you”
In high school he played piano, and bagpipes, which is one of the things to do when he has free time. He played in the highland high school band and also a bagpipe band. One song that comes to mind when I think about bagpipes would be “shoots and ladders”, which was one of his first songs that he plays the bagpipes in. It’s a bunch of nursery rhymes combined together for example, “Mary had a little lamb”, “blah blah black sheep”, “nick nack patty wack give a dong a bone.” All tied in together. In school the jock boys would make fun of him, and call him faggots because he wore eyeliner. With them by doing so he wrote the song “Fagget”. ”Hit me ‘cuse I’m strange, hit me, A tatto...