Almost fully recovered from his terrible illness, Johns has announced the tour dates for Silverchair's Diorama. 'Across the night tour' will go throughout Australia in April 2003 - Johns proved how popular he still is when all the tickets to every single show sold out on the first day! [December 2002]
Daniel Johns is an Australian musician, singer, and songwriter. He is best known as the lead vocalist, guitarist, and primary songwriter of the rock band Silverchair. Johns was born in Newcastle, New South Wales, on 22 April 1979, the youngest of four children. His father, Phil, was a doctor, and his mother, Kerry, was a nurse. Johns had two older sisters and an older brother. He was educated at St. Philip’s Christian College, where he met future Silverchair bassist Chris Joannou. Johns began playing guitar at the age of 12 and wrote his first song, “Untitled #1”, when he was 15. He was influenced by a wide range of artists, including Nirvana, Led Zeppelin, Jeff Buckley, and the Smashing Pumpkins.
Johns formed Silverchair in 1992 with Joannou and drummer Ben Gillies. The band’s debut album, Frogstomp, was released in 1995 and went platinum in Australia and the United States. The follow-up album, Freak Show, was released in 1997 and debuted at number one on the Billboard 200 chart. Silverchair’s third album, Neon Ballroom, was released in 1999 and reached number three on the Billboard 200. The band took a hiatus in 2002 after Johns developed a debilitating case of reactive arthritis.
Johns released his debut solo album, The Dissociatives, in 2005. The album peaked at number three on the ARIA chart and was certified platinum in Australia. Johns released his second solo album, Talk, in 2009. The album peaked at number five on the ARIA chart and was certified gold in Australia.
Johns has won a total of 21 ARIA Music Awards, making him the most awarded artist in the history of the ARIA Awards. He has been nominated for five Grammy Awards and won one for Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal for “Ana’s Song (Open Fire)” in 2000.
Johns is married to former television presenter Natalie Imbruglia. They have one son together, Max Valentine Johns, born in 2015.
General Info
Full Name
Daniel Johns
Date Of Birth
April 22, 1979
Height
1.79 m
Profession
Singer-songwriter, Guitarist, Composer, Songwriter, Aerial Love, Cool On Fire, Going On 16
Nationality
Australian
Family
Spouse
Natalie Imbruglia
Parents
Julia Johns, Greg Johns, Aerial Love, Cool On Fire, Going On 16
Accomplishments
Music Groups
Silverchair, The Dissociatives, Aerial Love, Cool On Fire, Going On 16
Nominations
ARIA Music Award for Best Male Artist, ARIA Music Award for Best Video, ARIA Music Award for Producer of the Year, ARIA Music Award for Best Cover Art, Aerial Love, Cool On Fire, Going On 16
Basically, the reason I'm vegan is because when I was about 16 or 17 years old, I began to understand that we don't need to contribute to the killing and exploitation of animals to feed our bodies correctly.
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I have a theory because I was being beaten up a lot by people outside of school, it was almost like if I could make myself sick enough they'd take sympathy on me.
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I'm always active in trying to educate people when it comes to eating animal products, testing on animals, and the health benefits of being vegan, although I'm probably not the best person to be talking about the latter at the moment.
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We never considered ourselves to be a good band or anything, we just thought we were playing for fun and we wanted to play music that sounded like Black Sabbath or Soundgarden or the music we were into at that time.
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We met The Cult and were talking to them for a while. We went a few places with Offspring.
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We were perceived as a post-grunge band.
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We were really motivated to do something with this record overseas, even though I hate touring.
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When we first began and I was 14, my influences were the stuff that was in my parent's record collection like Deep Purple and Led Zeppelin.
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With our first two records we backed ourselves into a hole musically.
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The touring for this album was definitely going to be the most intense touring we've done.
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There are no big groupie fans or anything.
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There was three or four years of my life where I hated myself and you know, would have quite happily ended it.
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Though, since the first record, I've dramatically changed my expectations for our records.
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Touring doesn't kill me and I can handle it.
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It just makes everything more pleasurable when you've got someone that emotionally is there to rely on.
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It makes it hard to get over a certain period of your life when you are constantly revisiting it every night.
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Kinda when I stopped eating was on our second album, just as it felt like everything was so out of control.
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Reactive arthritis is something I've been dealing with for nearly a year.
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So I went and visited a doctor and he diagnosed me with reactive arthritis.
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I start sweating and shaking and having panic attacks if I am not at home.
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I think I definitely got scared by the second or third time a doctor told me I was dying.
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I have not really experienced any significant conflict with anyone in regard to my choice to be vegan, although going out to eat is hard sometimes.
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I know if I don't tour people will forget the record and you run a high risk of the record failing.
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I never really paid attention to sales until the second record.
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There's an inherent thing in me where, if things are going too smooth, I'll sabotage the hell out of them, just to make the music more of a sanctuary.
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I am doing everything humanly possible to try and get well, but lately things have just kept getting worse.
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I am very scared of being outside my home for long periods of time.
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I get very anxious and am scared in crowds and things like that.
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I had to try and find a way to express happiness without sounding corny.
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I'm lucky the arthritis happened at the time that it did because of the record.
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None of us are really dumb and none of us are really smart. We're in the middle.
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I wrote... Neon Ballroom in that time where I hated music, really everything about it, I hated it.
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I try to stay positive by focusing on how much I'll appreciate my health if I get better.
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I have never had a social life, don't ever want one because it's boring. I'm just not very good with people, and you meet people every night who expect you to be this rock star with these developed social skills, which I don't have.
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I love life, it's the best thing in the whole world.
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(On Silverchair's stunning new album, Diorama) "No matter what people have got going on in their lives, hopefully when they play this album it will make them forget about everyday stuff. When music does that it's magical and, for me, that's what "Diorama" is about."
Facts
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Finished recording Silverchair's new album "Young Modern", and is taking a break before doing the final mixing. [December 2006]
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The couple announced a joint statement saying their marriage is over and they simply grew apart from not being able to spend enough time together. Natalie is based in London and Daniel in Australia. [January 2008]
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Daniel is currently in New South Whales with Silverchair working on demos for their upcoming fifth album. [November 2005]
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Late Australian actor Heath Ledger said that Silverchair was one of his favorite Australian bands.
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In an AT&T Blue Room interview in 2007, Silverchair discussed the actual origin of their band's name. They took the name from the C.S. Lewis book entitled "The Silver Chair". They admitted in the interview that they came up with what they thought was a good story, but realize now that it would have been much easier to just say it was from a book.
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Has a dog named Sweep.
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Had seven top 10 singles in the Aria charts between 1995-2001, which is more than any other Australian act in the 1990s.
Refuses to use pitch correction software on his music. While this technology corrects notes that are sung or played out of tune, it is Johns' personal belief that such artificial perfection diminishes music.
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Almost fully recovered from his terrible illness, Johns has announced the tour dates for Silverchair's Diorama. 'Across the night tour' will go throughout Australia in April 2003 - Johns proved how popular he still is when all the tickets to every single show sold out on the first day! [December 2002]
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He came up with the name Silverchair, from two songs from his biggest musical influences - 'silver' is a spin on 'sliver' from Nirvana and the 'chair' comes from You am I's 'Berlin Chair'.
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Has suffered from anorexia, and vividly laments his battle with it in his beautiful song 'Ana's song' (Open Fire)
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Suffering from a rare case of arthritis, which has prevented him from touring his new album, Diorama.
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Singer/Songwriter of hugely popular Australian rock/grunge band Silverchair.
Movies
Music Department
Title
Year
Status
Character
Beat Bugs
TV Series lead music producer - 26 episodes, 2016 musical director - 26 episodes, 2016 vocal performance - 3 episodes, 2016 vocal performance featuring - 1 episode, 2016
