Jonathan Davis was born January 18th, 1971 and lives in Bakersfield, California. Bakersfield, California was the city and state to become home to Jon. Jonathan's real mother worked in local theatre. His father worked in the music industry along with Buck Owens, as well as other occupations, such as working in a musical store when Jonathan was young. At the age of five, Jonathan was taking up drumming. By high school, he had taken up many instruments such as the piano and bagpipes. His grandmother played the bagpipes and, after hearing Amazing Grace, he was inspired to take up the Scottish instrument. He was in his high school's band class as well as a bagpipe band for his school. When Jonathan was just a young boy at the age of three, his Mother and father divorced and his Father remarried when he was 12. While many children have trouble adjusting to a new parent, or just plain refuses to get along, Jonathan's troubles went a little deeper. Growing up, he often resented his father for not being around. His father was often on the road and busy with his work, and Jonathan felt he was mistreating him, as well as the whole family. When Jonathan was young, someone outside the family was abusing him, that resulted in, among other things, the song "Daddy". Many bodies were brought in to Jonathan, and many images of the bodies stayed with him. Some of them he knew or spoke with the day before their bodies came in. One woman came in frantic, and Jonathan calmed her down and talked with her and settled things. He saw her the next day, her body on the autopsy table. He also learned that life isn't as planned as we think it may be. He remembers the body of a person who died because of a typewriter fell on him. When his father was around, their conversations didn't usually go further than the subject of girls. Jonathan represented his father as the abuser in the song "Daddy". They both get along fairly well now and Jonathan has a "newfound respect" for his father since he is a dad. On October 18, 1995, Renee gave birth to Nathan Houseman Davis. He had been expecting a baby girl. In November of 1998, Jonathan married his long-time girlfriend, Renee.Their wedding was done up in old time with fairies and knights in armor. After two years of marriage, Renee and Jonathan divorced.
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