Disturbed vocalist David Draiman looks like the prototypical guy your parents told you to stay away from. With piercings, tattoos, and a rock star attitude, he appears to have more in common with James Dean than Joseph Telushkin. Few even know about his humble upbringing in Chicago in an Orthodox Jewish home.
“I still walk into a store… Like a Wal-Mart just the other day: I’m in an aisle looking at something, and there’s a mother and her child, and she takes one look at me, grabs her child’s hand and she walks out of the way because she doesn’t want the child to see me.” He sounds genuinely hurt, and although he has some pretty large spikes sticking through his chin, Draiman looks momentarily like the last kid on the playground chosen for the kickball team.

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