The Savage Gardener, June 20, 1997-
The Making of Savage Garden

by : Sassy Savage




There are many Savage Garden listeners in the world, but not all of them know just how these
two babelicious guys who make the band got together. If you are one of those fans, keep reading
to find out how the hottest group of the century joined together to make our hearts beat faster
and our palms sweat!

It all started in two cities a long distance away from each other -Brisbane, Australia and Essex,
England. In each of these two places, a very talented musican was born. The two grew up each
desiring to be an entertainer. Darren Hayes dreamed since age 5 of becoming an actor. He
always made up plays and put up signs for them when he was young. Daniel Jones had his heart
set on being a musican from the beginning. He spent hours of his childhood teaching himself to
play his older brothers' instruments. Daniel moved to Austrailia when he was around one year
old.

Through High School Darren discovered and used his singing ablilties . His first two years in
high school he was labled as a nerd. After the Juniors and Seniors left, he made the lead in all
the plays and was there for known as "The kid who can sing." Darren became very popular to
say the least. Daniel however dropped out of school to persue a musical career.

After college, Darren started to think less of his other plans and started thinking more of a
singing carreer. Daniel was fully enclosed in the world of music... he was in a band that
desperalty needed a singer, so he advertised for one in a musicans magazine which Darren read.
Darren immeaditly responded to it. At auditions he freaked and made a couple mistakes in his
audition piece. Dispite those problems, he instantly clicked with the band-- especially Daniel. So
Darren became the newest member of the group.

Not long after that, the two left the group to write their own music. They sent out around 150
tapes to different radio stations around the world hoping to get a response. One day , a d.j. from
Texas played the song "I Want You" on his station. The song received many phone calls and
compliments, and the rest is history !!


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