Jonathan Houseman Davis was born on January 18, 1971 in Bakersfield, California to his mother who worked in a theater and his father, Rick Davis, who was involved with the music industry and owned his own music store. But we know all that easy stuff, don't we? So let's get into the real info on the best vocalist/bagpiper known to man.

Jonathan had a very, very rough and horrible childhood. At the young age of three, he had to deal with his parents' divorce. When he was just a child, he was sexually abused by someone that still remains nameless and unknown. His father, who was on the road more often than he was spending time with his son, was hardly ever there for him and did not believe Jonathan when he told him about the abuse. Jonathan uses his father as a representation for the abuser and the abuse that went ignored. His resentment towards his father grew with age as he was almost never around and almost always drunk when he was, but since Jonathan was blessed with a son of his own, it seems as though he has a new respect for his father. He realizes that he did what his father did to support his family, but still believes that he really fucked him over.

When Jonathan was tweleve, his father remarried to, well...let's just call her an extremely evil bitch. This extremely evil bitch made it even harder for young Jonathan to adjust to this huge change in his life. She simply hated him, for what reason he does not now. No matter how hard Jon tried, and no matter how sweet he could be, somehow nothing worked with the extremely evil bitch. Here's what Jonathan has to say about her:

"It's about a relative I first met when I was 12. I fucking hate that bitch. She's the most evil, fucked up person I've met in my whole life. She hated my guts. She did everything she could to make my life hell. Like, when I was sick she'd feed me tea with Tabasco, which is really hot pepper oil. She'd make me drink it and say, 'You have to burn that cold out, boy'. Fucked up shit like that. So every night when I'd go to sleep, I'd dream of killing that bitch. In some sick way I had a sexual fantasy about her, and I don't know what that stems from or why, but I always dreamt about fucking her and killing her."

Jonathan wrote his musical tribute to the extremely evil bitch in the emotional and heart-wrenching song "Kill You."

Jonathan's amazing musical talent first began to develop at the unbelievably young age of five, when he began playing the drums. By the time he reached high school, he had learned how to play many instruments, such as the piano and of course the infamous bagpipes (he played in his highschool's bagpipe band). Jonathan studied classical musical at a young age. As he grew, he liked everything from Duran Duran (his favorite band), Flock of Seagulls and Missing Persons, to Motley Crue, Ministry, Christian Death and Skinny Puppy. He believes that a person should never constrict themselves to one type of music.

Jonathan's musical taste isn't the only unique and original thing about him. Just about everything about Jon is special...the reason for this being that he is an individual who refuses to let society mold him. Unfortunately, however, this caused him even more pain in his teenage years, as he was ridiculed by cruel jocks with very small penises and even smaller self-esteems. Because of Jonathan's prediliction to wear eyeliner and basically wear whatever the fuck he wanted to, Jon was called a faget throughout high school and was branded as such by almost everyone in Highland High School--even the teachers.

Jonathan's HIV tattoo on his left arm is a "FUCK YOU" to the cheerleaders who stuffed their bras, and jocks with small penises, who made fun of him. The tattoo also serves a purpose for him: to warn him against the wide-spreading disease known as AIDS. He says: "That tattoo has probably saved my life. You know in situations when passion and lust take over your brain I take a look at that tattoo and I remember that the virus is out there and you never know who's got it."

Many people also don't realize that Jonathan's famous signature says "HIV" vertically.

On his right arm, Jonathan has a tattoo of an insane bishop ripping his skin off to reveal Jesus Christ. He says that the tattoo is a representation of the atrocities that religion creates; and that it is a symbol of how corrupt religion is.

At the tender age of 16, Jonathan exposed himself to more horror and evil as he applied to work at Kern Country Coroner's Department. He graduated from the San Fransisco Mortuary School of Science. Being a fan of horror movies and such, Jonathan was excited at first to be in the "death business," as he calls it. But over time, all the reality he was exposed to left an unerasable scar on his heart. Perhaps the gruesome memory of a little girl who came into the morgue, raped and murdered by her own father, is the memory that haunts Jonathan the most. The little girl's story is told through the Korn song "Pretty."

Working so ferverntly in the "death business" caused Jonathan to develop Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, a very painful disorder caused by traumatic experiences. It forced Jon to spend his sleep trapped in nightmares of the death that surrounded him on a daily basis during his career at the coroner's office.

Leaving the death and horror behind him, Jonathan went against his father's wishes and joined a band, Sex Art, which was composed of Jonathan, Ty Elam (Videodrone), Ryan Shuck (Orgy) and others who went on to form a band known as Juice. That, Jonathan's fate was to be sealed forever as two very special guitar players discovered Jonathan's band playing at a local club. As Brian "Head" Welch and James Christian "Munky" Shaffer were just about to leave, Jonathan kicked his vocal cords into action and turned both their heads right around. They approached him about joining their band Creep--and although Jonathan was reluctant at first, a consultation with a psychic (his aunt) confirmed his fate.

A mini-Jonathan came into the world on a Wednesday, October 18th, 1995--Nathan Houseman Davis. Renee Perez, his girlfriend that had stuck by his side since before Korn was born and lived with him in the corner of a garage, gave birth to the child. And on such an odd date and time--it was the 18th of the month, as is Jonathan's birthday, and was on a Wednesday...which is also the day Jonathan was born. The really weird part comes here: they were both born on the same hour. Jonathan's aunt (the psychic who told him to join Korn) states that she feels a strange aura around the boy.

Jonathan and Renee were married in 1998, after 7 years together. After Jonathan's nervous breakdown and onslaught of sobriety, he needed something to feed the addiction he craved for, but could not get it from drugs or his favorite alcoholic beverage, Jagermeister. As an alternative, Jonathan turned to sex as his relief from his pain and pressures. Because of this and other reasons, Renee and Jonathan are no longer together. During the time of their break-up, Jon was very suicidal, but it seems that now he is better and moving on...although he still refuses to play songs relating to her in concert (Need To, My Gift to You).

For Jonathan, opening up about his deepest, most painful memories and experiences was almost the hardest thing to do on the first Korn album. It hurt like hell, but at the same time, it provided him a channel to vent through, to release his pent-up anger, hate and pain. For over six years Jonathan has taught his ever-growing legion of fans many things about life. His words walked with us through the halls of our schools, shielding us from the staring eyes and hurtful jokes made at our expense. They helped us deal with bitter and hateful parents, abusive situations, and so much more. This extremely long biography can tell you many interesting facts about the man we know as Jonathan Davis, but just one minute of his music will tell you more than I could ever type in my life.