David DeFeis

David DeFeis ( born January 4, 1962 in New York) is the frontman and singer ( keyboardist ) of the New York heavy metal band Virgin Steele. He is the only member that remained until today the formation founded in 1981, whose songwriter and creative mind. DeFeis ' creative partner since 1983 the guitarist Edward Pursino.

Facts and Figures

Even as an eight- year-old David had DeFeis classical piano training at age eleven, he founded his first " Rock Band ". His father was a noted Shakespearean actor on Broadway in New York, his sister Doreen DeFeis is an opera singer living in Germany. His second sister Danae DeFeis is a singer of the internationally little-known but popular in the New York metropolitan area and on the East Coast rock band Stalk.

Musical work

David DeFeis applies to fans and the press as a great musical talent, an accomplished songwriter and one of the most expressive singers within the metal genre. His voice, the vocal range has more than four octaves, he is particularly in the Virgin Steele albums that have appeared after 1985, a virtuosic and in the spotlight. Typical is his occasional change from a deep and sonorous tone to a high head voice. He has since early childhood, a taste for classic composers such as Richard Wagner, Claude Debussy and Chopin - whatever his own musical and The vocal work ( harmonies, song structure ) much impressed. Together with Virgin Steele David DeFeis published until 2010 a total of 14 albums (including two compilations ) with bombastic symphonic heavy metal music.

Other musical projects

Besides his work at Virgin Steele developed David DeFeis also three extensive "Metal Opera " (1999: Clytemnestra or Curse of the House of Atreus, 2001: Hel or the rebels and 2005: Lilith ), which in the National Theatre Swabia (Memmingen ) in cooperation of David DeFeis and Walter Weyers, the director of the State Theatre, were rehearsed and performed with great popular success. Lilith was also shown at the Federal Horticultural Show 2005 in Munich. The critics, even from the more conservative camp were very benevolent. The opera Clytemnestra even found attention in the cultural part of the mirror, which paid tribute to the work with a comprehensive article as unusual and remarkable work. Lilith was considered among others in the star with a very good criticism. 2001 and 2002 DeFeis was also heard as a guest singer of the two albums the Avantasia project by Tobias Sammet ( Edguy ).

Personal Background

David DeFeis is unmarried and has no children, and lives in Long Iceland, New York. By his own testimony he himself is Italian, French, German and Native American descent.

• Rock singer
• American musician
• Born in 1962
• Man