Born Jonathan Houseman Davis, the KoRn front man we all know and love, obviously has some issues and a very deep and disturbing past.

January 18, 1971 was the day Jonathan was welcomed to the world and to Bakersfield, California. At the age of 3, his troubles started with the painful divorce of his parents. His neighbor abused him, and he is the inspiration behind the song "Daddy". When he was 12, his evil stepmother was introduced into his life. She didn't like him, and the feeling was apparently mutual.

Music was a big part of Jonathan's life since an early age. His father, Rick, owned a music store. It was here that Jonathan learned to play such instruments as the upright bass, violin, piano, clarinet, and drums. The music teachers there would teach his instrument basics in their spare time. The rest, he taught himself. He can play guitar, too, and God knows what else. He picked up the famous bagpipes heard on such songs as "Shoots and Ladders" and "Low Rider" because of his Scottish roots and he just wanted to learn how to play them. They only came into KoRn's music as a result of a suggestion from the drummer, David Randall Silveria. He joined the pipe band at Highland High School in Bakersfield.

It was at this school that Jonathan was endlessly tormented and pushed around by his classmates. Dubbed with such terms as "faget" and "pussy", it made it difficult for him to be accepted, let alone the 80's pop music, eyeliner, and gay bars thing. In fact, there was only one jock that Jonathan trusted, and that was Sean Olsen.

Jonathan, aged 16, worked at the Coroners Department in Kern County. He graduated from the San Francisco school of Mortuary Science with a degree in...you guessed it, mortuary science. Although this fucked him up significantly, it did teach him to value his own life more and not take things for granted. He had once been the manager at a Pizza Hut. According to him, it was fun because he gave all of his employees speed. He had also been a county building janitor, a job which he despised because he didn't like cleaning up other people's shit.

Eventually, Jonathan invested his time into music. He landed in a band called Sex Art with Ty Eliam (Videodrone) and Ryan Schuck, (Orgy) among others. Head and Munky were one day just chilling in a bar, ready to leave, when Sex Art came on. They were impressed and knew they needed Jonathan to join their band, L.A.P.D., which stood for Love And Peace, Dude. Jonathan didn't want to, but his psychic told him to do it, so he did. This turned out to be a really good choice.

With the band complete, the name was changed to Creep, and ultimately became KoRn. Constant touring with little recognition is enough to tire anybody out, but Jonathan was very serious about music and his band. He even cried when he heard that their self-titled debut album, released in 1994, had gone gold.

Jonathan had partaken in substance abuse since his teenage years/early 20s. This was just one of the problems emerging from his troubling past and present. He was a heavy drinker and smoker, doing illegal substances on top of that. He managed to kick his habits, but not without denial and struggle. "I'm not one of those persons that can just have an occasional cocktail or sit and have a couple of drinks and know when to say when. I drink to fall down so, um, I found a new respect for myself and I'm better than that and I guess I was trying to live up to the old rock and roll cliché of being a total drunk; like, live larger than life stuff. And you just hafta learn for yourself, you don't have to be that. You got those other things: sex and playin," says Jonathan about his prior drinking habits on the MTV show "Diary". He has won his battles with the drugs and beer. He is now sober and aren't we all proud of him? :)

In November of 1998, Jonathan married Renee Davis and she gave birth to their son on October ,1995. Jonathan's psychic had told him it would be a girl and he had the name Salaam Demetria all picked out. When a boy was born, he was surprised, but not disappointed. Jonathan and Renee named their son Nathaniel Houseman Davis. On January 11, 1999, Jonathan came to Nathan's pre-school for Career Day and played his bagpipes for the children. Sadly, Jonathan and Renee are now separated and battling in court for the custody of Nathan.

In 1998, KoRn and their label founded the Family Values Tour. This was around the time that their third album, Follow the Leader was released. At this point, Jonathan was going through rough times. He was dealing with alcohol, drugs, arguments within the band, and sex with groupies while being married. He was tired and depressed all the time. In fact, he would fall asleep on the tour bus, wake up to perform and go right back to sleep. Eventually, he got up the nerve to tell Renee about his unfaithfulness towards her, because he couldn't stand to do that to his wife anymore. A lot of Issues focuses on that period in time.

Jonathan is now hard at work on the soundtrack to the film Queen of the Damned. He has talked of his progress and role on it on the New York rock radio station K-ROCK while the Sick & Twisted tour was there. "I was thinking of doing a side project, but I didn't want to take away from KoRn. It seems that when singers, like, just venture off and do side things, it just screws with the band and it's just not...not right to me. I don't want to do a solo project like that. So, I was thinking of a different avenue of...to be creative and I though of film scoring. It would be awesome. I could just write music. I don't have to sing or do anything like that. And then, the Queen of the Damned thing came up and it was just perfect." Jonathan will, in fact, be singing and conducting an orchestra along with his partner, Richard Gibbs. "I'm totally gonna be the punk-rock conductor or whatever." The movie itself will start filming in August, so Jonathan says the soundtrack should be out in the summer of 2001 and will feature "big, dark, huge vampire music."

He currently resides in Los Angeles. When asked by Chris Booker of K-ROCK if he still lived in Bakersfield, Jonathan replies, "I live in LA. I can't stand Bakersfield."