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Davey Havok was born in Rochester, New York on November 20, 1975. At the age of five, his family moved to California; when he was 12 they moved to Ukiah. From there, Davey attended Catholic school until the eighth grade. During high school, his friends Mark Stopholese and Vic Chalker wanted to start a band. Unfortunately, they had several problems. Amongst them was their lack of a drummer. Mark suggested his friend Adam Carson be in the band. Furthermore, they didn't know how to play any instruments, but they knew that Davey had a good voice and Adam had a drum set. Mark then learned guitar and Vic learned bass. And they started AFI.
Davey cites lead singers such as Ian Astbury (of The Cult), Rozz Williams (of Christian Death), Morrissey (of The Smiths) , Freddie Mercury (of Queen), Robert Smith (of The Cure), Glenn Danzig (of The Misfits, Samhain, and Danzig), Peter Murphy (of Bauhaus), David Gahan (of Depeche Mode), and Ian Curtis (of Joy Division) as his influences. Shortly after high school, the band broke up and Davey moved to Berkeley, California, where he attended UC Berkeley, planning to double major in English and Psychology. He began constantly writing lyrics to songs that would eventually appear on the albums "Answer That and Stay Fashionable" and "Very Proud of Ya." He ended up dropping out of college to pursue a future with his band, AFI.
In 2005, Davey Havok teamed up with Serious Clothing to release Glitterboy. Glitterboy Clothing was available through Hot Topic. Due to creativity differences between Havok and Serious, Glitterboy was canceled after only a few months. Davey is currently working on a new clothing line due for 2007.
Havok has a plethora of tattoos, including a pair of large black wings on his back and a flaming heart on his chest, as well as both arms sleeved with halloween imagery with direct references to Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas.
Havok loaned his voice to The Nerve Agents for their 2nd release, Days of the White Owl on the song, "Jekyl and Hyde."
Havok provided backing vocals for The Offspring's 4th and 5th albums Ixnay on the Hombre and Americana.
Havok also has provided many backup vocals for Tiger Army
Havok is mentioned in the song Mattersville by NOFX ("Davey Havok's house is painted black")
Havok also provided backup vocals on the Dance Hall Crashers song "I Don't Wanna Behave", from the album Lockjaw.
Havok provided vocals and lyrics for the one-off Samhain tribute Son Of Sam, alongside Todd Youth of Danzig, Steve Zing and London May of Samhain.
Alongside Jade Puget from AFI, Havok is involved in an electronic side-project named Blaqk Audio.
Havok also was a guest vocalist on The Transplants song "Quick Death".
Havok sings on the song Blue Strip by the band Fury 66
Havok appears on Bleeding Through's DVD, Wolves Among Sheep
Havok appears in the Live Freaky Die Freaky movie.
Havok appears in the Mary Jane's Not A Virgin Anymore movie.
Havok is Italian-American.
Havok is straight edge, and claims to have never consumed any alcoholic beverage or drug substance, and also is a vegan.
Davey has a lip piercing in the right corner of his lip that he has had for several years. He also had a monroe piercing but for a very short time. His ear piercings are stretched to 1/2 an inch at last notice.