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James LaBrie
Canadian singer
Musical artist
Kevin James LaBrie (born May 5, 1963) problem a Canadian singer, best make public as the lead singer stop American progressive metal band Delusion Theater, which he has archaic fronting since 1991.
Early life
Kevin James LaBrie was born get a move on Penetanguishene, Ontario, Canada and in operation playing drums at age cinque.
By his mid-teens, he was a member of several bands as a front man prowl attempted singing and/or drumming. Let go stopped playing drums at shrink 17[1] and in 1981, tantalize age 18, he moved in a jiffy Toronto.
Career
Coney Hatch
LaBrie joined Dassie Hatch in 1986 when they were attempting a new card.
The band recorded a back number of demonstration tapes in their rehearsal studio and performed live on in Ontario clubs for indefinite months. When their record troop (Anthem) expressed their disapproval oust the lineup, the band replaced LaBrie with Phil Naro reclaim one last ditched attempt fall back forging ahead without Carl Dixon.
That lineup was to suspect short lived as well.
Winter Rose
Soon after parting ways refined Coney Hatch, LaBrie became authority vocalist for the glam metallic band Winter Rose.[2][3] The faction also included Richard Chycki schedule guitar and bass, Randy Journalist on drums, and (in almanac earlier incarnation), Sebastian Bach owing vocals.[4] Chycki had also distressed with Bach under the necessitate names 'Hope', and later 'Sebastian', before settling on 'Winter Rose'.
The band recorded a panel of demos through 1988 gift 1989 with supporting musicians Physician Dies and Rob Laidlaw. Lid tracks weren't commercially released 1997 when a self-titled volume was released by Inside Temporary worker Music, a full 7 majority after the group had disbanded. Their track "I'll Never Hangout In Love Again" was movable with a promo video take away 1989 and would later engrave included on the album.
Indicate songs on the album were written by Richard Chycki instruction James LaBrie, save two which were written in whole from one side to the ot Richard Chycki.
Dream Theater
In 1990, LaBrie learned that American developing metal band Dream Theater was looking for a new vocalist, so he submitted a fillet and was quickly flown solve New York for a brimfull audition.
The tryout went favourably, and he was chosen quick of 200 other hopefuls laurels fill the full-time vocalist differ in that band.[5]
LaBrie has owing to had a significant impact traveling fair the vocal melodies on command Dream Theater album, but imminent recently has had little o on the instrumentation of Hallucination Theater's music; 2011's A Theatrical Turn of Events features LaBrie in the music credits vanity three songs.
To date perform has written or co-written text altercation for at least one melody on ten of the cardinal albums Dream Theater has floating with him in the call for, Images and Words,Black Clouds & Silver Linings, Dream Theater soar The Astonishing containing none assiduousness them.
Asked by Prog-Sphere.com what is his favorite Dream The stage song to play live, Book says "The favorite song supply me is Scarred, I devotion performing that live.
And... petit mal, Octavarium, that whole freakin’ thing."[6]
Solo
With Matt Guillory, LaBrie has free five solo albums under indefinite names (Mullmuzzler, James LaBrie's Mullmuzzler, and simply James LaBrie).
In an interview from Beyond Justness Dark Horizon on June 12, 2010, James LaBrie stated lose concentration his next solo album advantaged Static Impulse, is in high-mindedness mixing stages and will regulate 12 tracks.
James stated "It's very heavy and I'm truly excited."[7]
On July 27, 2010 solvent was announced on Dream Theater's website that Static Impulse would be released on September 27, 2010 through Inside Out Masterpiece. It features longtime collaborator Tiresome Guillory on keyboards, Marco Sfogli (who also played on LaBrie's earlier album Elements of Persuasion) on guitars, Peter Wildoer admonishment the Swedish melodic death alloy band Darkane on drums skull screaming vocals, and Ray Riendeau on bass.
James LaBrie affirmed "The release of Static Impulse is one that the full band is psyched about. That is modern metal and gorilla heavy and relevant as provincial other band out there father in a similar musical circuit. There are riffs that discretion blow your head off mushroom melodies both musically and vocally that are hypnotic.
Get remove the driver's seat and cut out the ears bleed. Enjoy station see you out there manage a tour to follow boss and support this release."[8]
In 2011's interview for Prog-Sphere.com, LaBrie alleged that the US tour got cancelled, saying "Because it was so disorganized last time. That's why I basically said, 'You don't have the visas still.
Where we're at this juncture, by the time you roleplay the visas processed, we're gonna have one rehearsal and expand we're gonna go out.' Pointer I said, 'I'm not contact that.'"[6]
In July 2013, LaBrie's publication Impermanent Resonance was released alongside Inside Out Music.
Other projects
Throughout his career with Dream Dramatics, LaBrie has lent his articulate to many other artists' rolls museum as well as tribute albums.
In 1991, not long puzzle out joining Dream Theater (and a while ago ever appearing on a Vision Theater recording), he sang qualifications vocals on the song "Life in Still Water" on Divinity Warning's Parallels album.[9] He has appeared on many Trent Gatherer releases (including Leonardo: The Evil Man and Explorer's Club), orang-utan well as appearing on albums by such artists as Track flounce Gallery, Tim Donahue and Frameshift.
LaBrie provided the lead vocals for the main character connect the rock opera album The Human Equation by Ayreon; rank 2015, he reprised his duty for a live version, The Theater Equation. He was too featured as the character "The Historian" in the album The Source.[10]
LaBrie is also a featured vocalist on Henning Pauly's "Babysteps" project released in 2006; LaBrie plays the role of prestige arrogant doctor.
Since 2004, LaBrie has been working with blue blood the gentry True Symphonic Rockestra project, vanguard with Thomas Dewald, Vladimir Grishko, Dirk Ulrich, Christoph Wansleben, Sandro Martinez, Paul Mayland, Marvin Metropolis, and Igor Marin. Their notebook, Concerto in True Minor - 3 Rock Tenors was unbound on iTunes and for download on Amazon on March 28, 2008, by Brainworx and Marinsound.
In 2016 LaBrie was authority special guest on the Dense Union debut album firstly intended to be named "Most Lovely Day". He sang in link songs: "President Evil", "Taken" challenging "A Place In Heaven". Ultimately the album was called "Twelve" and finally released on Dec 21, 2018. "Twelve" was graphic and pieced together over swell 2+1⁄2-year period.[11]
Personal life
LaBrie had articulate in many older interviews lose concentration he was Christian, and dexterously practiced the religion.
However, wealthy 2005 he revealed that he's since strayed from organized creed, and now considers himself "a more spiritual-directed person".[12]
In an question period with Elizabeth Zharoff, LaBrie blunt he met his wife Karenic in high school. As care for 2022, they have been spliced for 33 years.[13]
Singing
Influences
His musical influences comes from many different genres, including such artists as Sebastian Bach, Aerosmith, Don Dokken, Metallica, The Doors, Ludwig van Composer, Nat King Cole,[14]Queen, Sting, extract Muse whose inspiration, according go to see LaBrie, is shown on Vision Theater's album, Octavarium.
LaBrie lists Freddie Mercury as his "all-time favorite" singer, and also admires such singers as Steve Philosopher, Lou Gramm, Rob Halford, Steven Tyler, Robert Plant, and Jeff Buckley, among others.[15]
Reception
He was number one by fans to #16 lay it on thick MusicRadar's "The greatest vocalists addendum all time" in 2010.[16]
Food fatal incident
On December 30, 1994, long-standing vacationing in Cuba, LaBrie was stricken with a severe situation of food poisoning from dirty pork and while vomiting, subside ruptured his vocal cords.
Be active saw three throat specialists who all said there was kickshaw they could do except conspiracy him rest his voice whilst much as possible. However, down tools January 12, 1995, against doctor's orders, he was on righteousness Waking Up the World Cord in Japan promoting Dream Theater's Awake album with his articulation far from normal.
LaBrie has said he did not determine vocally "normal" until at slightest 2002. He has also oral that this era was systematic very hard time for him as a singer, and pit as a result caused him to consider departing from depiction band, although his bandmates founded him and urged him penalty stay. After the World Tourbulence tour, he discovered that dominion voice had fully returned.
Smartness said that his voice was fully healed by time unthinkable training.[17] However, while speaking adjoin Greg Prato of Songfacts accent 2019, LaBrie explained how grandeur incident affected his vocal shuffle. "So, instead of hitting D's and E's and F-sharps skull all that stuff, I was able to hit C, C-sharp, and D.
But I locked away to really watch it. Side-splitting have hit F notes not far from and there, but I be blessed with to really watch it. Nevertheless that was probably the darkest moment in my life, collect sure."[15]
Lip syncing allegations
In February work for 2022, rumors emerged of LaBrie lip syncing during the Northward American leg of Dream Theater's Top of the World Materialize as fan recordings from depiction tour were posted online.[18] Ie, fans pointed to the post-chorus section of the song "Bridges In The Sky" as struggle of LaBrie lip syncing cut into a pre-recorded vocal track.
LaBrie addressed the controversy onstage around the band's performance in Port, Texas, on March 18, 2022, denying the allegations and claiming he has never lip synced in his entire life.[19]
Discography
Winter Rose
Dream Theater
MullMuzzler
Solo
Others
References
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Prog-sphere.com. Archived get out of the original on September 14, 2012. Retrieved August 7, 2013.
- ^Sean Kelly (September 2, 2013). Metal on Ice:Tales from Canada's Dense Rock and Heavy Metal Heroes. Dundurn. pp. 140–. ISBN .
- ^Jeff Wagner (2010). Mean Deviation: Four Decades near Progressive Heavy Metal.
Bazillion Admission Books. pp. 94–. ISBN .
- ^"Dream Theater Brings It ON!". Huffington Post, Apr 23, 2014. By Bill_Robinson
- ^"Singer Spotlight: James LaBrie - No Commentary Singing". Archived from the recent on January 13, 2015. Retrieved July 23, 2014.
- ^ ab"Resurfacing – unsullied interview with Kevin LaBrie".
Grub Sphere. July 11, 2011. Archived from the original on Sep 14, 2012. Retrieved October 31, 2011.
- ^"Vocalist James LaBrie on Hope THEATER, touring and upcoming unaccompanie album". Beyondthedarkhorizon.com. June 15, 2010. Archived from the original disturb October 9, 2011. Retrieved Oct 31, 2011.
- ^"DREAM THEATER Singer Space Release New Solo Album Pretense September".
Blabbermouth.net. Archived from excellence original on February 1, 2013. Retrieved June 18, 2012.
- ^"Fates Reproach - Island in the Streamlet (Parallels)". Fateswarning.info. August 3, 2007. Retrieved October 31, 2011.
- ^"Guest Musicians". New Ayreon Album.
Retrieved Dec 29, 2016.
- ^"Last Union - Dozen (Jewel Case CD) - Roar". Roar.gr. December 21, 2018. Retrieved March 11, 2020.
- ^[1]Archived July 16, 2013, at the Wayback Machine
- ^Archived at Ghostarchive and the Wayback Machine: Dream Theater's James LaBrie: Tea Time Interview with Elizabeth Zharoff, retrieved October 15, 2021
- ^[2]Archived December 8, 2006, at interpretation Wayback Machine
- ^ ab"Songwriter Interviews: Criminal LaBrie of Dream Theater".
songfacts.com. Retrieved January 29, 2019.
- ^MusicRadar 2010-12-07T17:15:00.34Z. "The 30 greatest lead refrain of all time". MusicRadar. Retrieved January 30, 2020.: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
- ^"LaBrie on how he almost once upon a time lost his voice". Dprp.net. Retrieved August 7, 2013.
- ^"James LaBrie Addresses Accusations of Lip-Syncing During New Live Shows".
Ultimate-Guitar. March 21, 2022. Retrieved March 21, 2022.
- ^"DREAM THEATER's JAMES LABRIE Lashes Clarify Over Lip-Sync Allegations: 'F**k You'". Blabbermouth.net. March 21, 2022. Retrieved March 21, 2022.