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Full Dave Navarro Biography
David Michael Navarro (born June 7, 1967) is a guitarist who has played in the rock bands Jane's Addiction and the Red Hot Chili Peppers. Navarro is a member of The Panic Channel and the cover band Camp Freddy.
Navarro was born in Santa Monica, California, to James Raul Navarro and Constance Colleen Hopkins. Navarro's paternal grandfather was a Spanish immigrant. His mother Constance worked as a model, appearing on the television show Let's Make A Deal. Navarro was the only person in his paternal family not to speak Spanish, as James and Constance divorced when he was 7 and he spent the majority of his time with his Anglophone mother.
Connie Navarro was murdered by her boyfriend eight years after the divorce. Her killer was arrested in 1991, thanks to a viewer tip after Navarro appeared on the television series, America's Most Wanted. After his mother's death he moved in with his father.
Navarro has long struggled with drugs, including lengthy addictions to both heroin and cocaine that was documented in his 2001 autobiography, Don't Try This At Home, which was co-authored by Neil Strauss.
Navarro joined the band Jane's Addiction in 1986 as the lead guitarist after he was recommended to vocalist Perry Farrell by drummer Perkins. The band also featured Navarro's childhood friend Eric Avery on bass. The band became successful and was legendary in the alternative-rock music scene. Personal tensions, however, led to their breakup in 1991. The Lollapalooza festival tour was created by Farrell as a farewell tour for Jane's Addiction.
Navarro was asked to join the Red Hot Chili Peppers in 1993 after the departure of John Frusciante. Navarro made his live debut with the band at the Woodstock '94 festival, where he and the rest of the band wore giant fake lightbulbs on their heads and one-piece silver suits for part of the set. Navarro's only album with the Chili Peppers, One Hot Minute, was released in 1995 and received mixed reviews, though strong sales.
After the band completed the promotional tour in support of the album, Navarro stated that he wanted to focus on his upcoming solo project, Spread (which included the Chili Peppers' drummer Chad Smith), and was not interested in recording and touring. A planned EP by Spread, to be titled Rhimorse, and an album Unicorns & Rainbows: The Pelican, were rejected by Warner Bros. and after several attempts to find a record label, were left unreleased.
In 1997, Navarro reunited with Jane's Addiction for the Jane's Relapse tour, bringing along fellow Chili Pepper Flea, who replaced Avery after he refused to participate. Dave and Flea also appeared together as guests on Alanis Morissette's 1995 album Jagged Little Pill.
In 2004, Navarro contributed his guitar ability on Dead Celebrity Status' debut album, Blood Music. He played guitar on their lead single, "We Fall, We Fall." Also in 2004, Navarro contributed his guitar work to Glenn Hughes's album Soul Mover. He also performed additional guitar on Flyleaf's self-titled album in 2005.
In 2005, Navarro began serving as co-host of the reality TV show Rock Star: INXS, alongside Brooke Burke. During the competition to determine a new lead vocalist for INXS, the exposure and success of the show made Navarro's name much better known among mainstream music fans. Navarro returned to work on a new season of Rock Star called Rock Star: Supernova, which premiered in North America on July 5, 2006 and ended on September 13, 2006. They are forming the band Supernova which features Gilby Clarke (ex-Guns N' Roses) on guitar, Jason Newsted (ex-Metallica) on bass and Tommy Lee from Mötley Crüe on drums with the lead singer, Lukas Rossi, having been selected at the end of the show's run. On the final episode, he committed to working with Rockstar: Supernova Runner-up Dilana on her upcoming album.
On May 17, 2007, the hourlong, weekly "Spread Entertainment" debuted on Navarro's website. Navarro said he was attracted to doing a show on the Internet because of the lack of censorship. Navarro said that "I want to use the Internet to support artists and see things that are out there that other corporate structures aren't allowing us to see. It seems with satellite TV, the Internet, magazines -- there's almost so many options, and we're only seeing the same five things."
In addition to his musical work, Navarro has briefly appeared in two movies, Floundering (1994) and Uptown Girls (2003). Navarro also wrote a movie review column entitled "Movies & Crap" for Bikini magazine with his cousin Johnny (although they referred to themselves as brothers in the column). He has written for Details, Nylon, Ray Gun, and Us Weekly magazines and co-written a photo book entitled Don't Try This at Home. And he also has made several appearances on the television series Celebrity Poker Showdown, playing no-limit Texas Hold 'Em in support of the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation.
During this era, Dave went with a more treble based guitar in the Fender Stratocaster. He had several in his possession. All of them were a 3 single coil pattern but he also had a Modulus Stratocaster made.
Dave has also been seen playing Gibson Les Pauls, Kramer (Van Halen Signature) Guitars, Fender Telecasters, Takamine Acoustic 12 strings, and even a Squier Hello Kitty Stratocaster given to him by Carmen.
Dave has also been seen playing Ibanez guitars. Specifically, in the "Stop" video he is seen playing a Blue "RG" series Ibanez. |
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