Darren Stanley Hayes was born in 1972 in Brisbane, Queensland in Australia. From a very young age he would sing in front of the mirror using a hairbrush as a microphone showing his yearning to be a pop star. When he was 10 years old he used to believe he was Michael Jackson and believed he was famous worldwide. Darren attended high school at Mabel Park State High school and left at the end of Year 12, achieving a mark of 920. Darren auditioned for an acting course after school which he managed to get a place in and after his girlfriend was rejected form the course, he left, breaking up with his girlfriend just a few weeks later. Darren then went to University to study Primary school teaching where he met his future wife Colby Taylor. During a lecture one day Darren was looking through a local music magazine and decided to audition for a band as he no longer had any passion to be a primary school teacher. The advertisement he replied to was for a band called Red Edge which Daniel Jones was a part of. Darren's voice split in the audition yet he still managed to get the job. The band performed covers in local pubs with Darren And Daniel eventually hooking up and writing songs together. After realising their song To the moon and back had potential they began searching for a record deal. The duo sent out over 150 demo tapes and only one person replied, John Woodruff. Woodruff approached all of the major record companies to sign the band all of which passed. He then mortgaged his house to get the band started. They now lease their records to Roadshow music throughout Australia and New Zealand and Columbia for the rest of the World. After the break up of Darren's marriage he moved to New York for a year and began writing songs for the album Affirmation. He then went to San Francisco to work with producer, Walter Afanasieff and after the album was released he decided to remain in San Francisco and bought a house in Marin County.Savage Garden have released two albums Savage Garden and Affirmation selling in excess of 15 million albums and counting. They have had two major world tours and won countless awards.