--Full Name: Darren Stanley Hayes
--Birthday: May 8, 1972
--Hair color: black (originally blond)
--Eye color: blue
--Born: Brisbane, Australia
--Is the youngest of three
--Darren has recently stated that him and his wife Colby Taylor have divorced, but are still very good friends to the heart.
--Colby was his high-school sweetheart.
--Says he was a nerd back in Junior/High school, hehe...poor Daz..hehe
--Diet: Vegeterian (eats white meat), no alcohol or cigarettes
--Fav. color: dusky blue, although he does wear alot of black!
--Music insperations: U2, Michael Jackson, Prince, and Diana Ross.
--Fav. place to visit: New York City
--Fav. thing to do: surf the web....going in online chat rooms with people all around the world (he doesn't do that anymore).
--What he keeps in his fridge: Skim Milk and yogurt
--More important; Fun, Love, or Money: Love
--Most embarrasing thing he has done on stage: "Slam a microphone into my teeth, Or forget the words!"
--Fav. concert: U2 Zooropa 1993 Sydney Football Stadium.
--His fave U2 song is," With or Without You"....fave Madonna song is "Vogue" and fave Sarah McLachlan song is "Ice Cream".
-- is 5'7"
--Thinks Jeneane Garofalo is sexy (has recently become interested in Natalie Portman!)
--His favorite author is Anne Rice (surprise surprise!)
--He finds full lips on a woman irresistable
--Started singing @ age 11
--TEARS OF PEARL and CARRY ON DANCING are his favorite songs that he and Daniel have written so far.
--Believes in destiny and fate
--His favorite TV shows are "Seinfeld" and "The Simpsons"
--Says he prefers a virgin over vixen...but deep down, he knnows it will always be vixen.
--Likes open spaces
--He needs to be alone when he is writing
--He is not into cars; he thinks they suck
--His bunk on the tour bus was named MONEY BUNK because his new hair do made him look like a monkey, plus he can move his ears forward.
--He came from a poor family
--His mom is June Hayes and his dad is Robert Hayes
--The first thing he bought after he got his first pay check was a computer.
--Has 1 older brother and 1 older sister
--The schools he went to are Mable Park Infant and Mable Park High, both in Logan
--Use to own 2 kagaroos named Mork and Mindy
--Likes Madonna's RAY OF LIGHT and LIKE A PRAYER album
--THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK is his fave Star Wars movie
--He has been a vegetarian for about 4 years...he doesn't have problem with people eating meat as long as animals are treated humanely...it's just that he thinks his body works best when he eats certain foods.
--He usually steams his voice with a vaporiser before he goes on stage and he does vocal warm ups to relax.
--Has a cockerspaniel named OBI
--When he was born, his family thought he looked like a little bulldozer.....he was a chubby baby and his nick name was Bulldozer but then it eventually got shortened to Doze or Dozer and that's what his nickname is today towards family......but he says he'd feel really uncomfortable if someone outside his family called him that. To his fans, he is also known as Daz.
--He took music as a subject in school but only up until the end of junior high.
--Daniel describes him as charismatic
--Even though he is not into cars, he says his favorite car is a 1998 Lincoln...but I don't know if it still is...it was what they were always picked up in from the airport in the US on tour and he says it was very comfortable.
--His fave subject at school was art or English
--The scariest thing in the world to him is death and the STRATOSPHERE RIDE at Las Vegas
--works out 5 to 6 times a week
--Took guitar lessons for a while but now he has given up on that for the moment to work on his voice
--when he tried out to be the singer that Daniel was looking for a long time ago before SG ever existed, he sang the female lead of Skid Row from the movie Little Shop Of Horrors.
--I Want You was starting to get tiring for Darren as the tour went on.
--Two Beds and a Coffee Machine is currently his favorite song on the new album.
--Darren lived in NYC for year, which also inspired all of the songs from their latest album, AFFIRMATION!
Darren is the lead singer and backround vocal for Savage Garden. He met his ex-wife, Colby, in high-school. Darren loves to read Anne Rices' vampire novels, infact that's where they got their band name(more in band info.). While he grew up, Darren loved to collect Star Wars things, but sold them at age 13, he is now trying deperately to get them all back.
If he were asked how long it takes him to get ready in the mornings he would reply, " It takes me days just to go out." One of his worst habits he says is that he gets too over emotional. Daniel thinks he has a habit of always wanting to get attention and to be in the center spot. Hehe..