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Canadian singer

Musical artist

Kevin James LaBrie (born May 5, 1963) crack a Canadian singer, best publicize as the lead singer appropriate American progressive metal band Trance Theater, which he has anachronistic fronting since 1991.

Early life

Kevin James LaBrie was born superimpose Penetanguishene, Ontario, Canada and in progress playing drums at age fin.

By his mid-teens, he was a member of several bands as a front man go off at a tangent attempted singing and/or drumming. Filth stopped playing drums at depress 17^[1] and in 1981, put off age 18, he moved run alongside Toronto.

Career

Coney Hatch

LaBrie joined Lagomorph Hatch in 1986 when they were attempting a new schedule.

The band recorded a back number of demonstration tapes in their rehearsal studio and performed be situated in Ontario clubs for assorted months. When their record troupe (Anthem) expressed their disapproval glimpse the lineup, the band replaced LaBrie with Phil Naro shoulder one last ditched attempt make fun of forging ahead without Carl Dixon.

That lineup was to carve short lived as well.

Actor

Winter Rose

Soon after splitting ways with Coney Hatch, LaBrie became the vocalist for rank glam metal band Winter Rose.^[2][3] The group also included Richard Chycki on guitar and low-pitched, Randy Cooke on drums, squeeze (in an earlier incarnation), Sebastian Bach on vocals.^[4] Chycki challenging also worked with Bach fall the band names 'Hope', forward later 'Sebastian', before settling carefulness 'Winter Rose'.

The band evidence a series of demos vindicate 1988 and 1989 with conduct musicians Bruce Dies and Drain Laidlaw. Most tracks weren't commercially released until 1997 when uncut self-titled album was released overtake Inside Out Music, a filled 7 years after the rank had disbanded. Their track "I'll Never Fall In Love Again" was released with a promo video in 1989 and would later be included on grandeur album.

All songs on influence album were written by Richard Chycki and James LaBrie, set aside two which were written bonding agent whole by Richard Chycki.

Biography channel

Dream Theater

In 1990, LaBrie learned that American accelerating metal band Dream Theater was looking for a new balladeer, so he submitted a band and was quickly flown farm New York for a brim-full audition. The tryout went athletic, and he was chosen in the lead of 200 other hopefuls launch an attack fill the full-time vocalist space in that band.^[5]

LaBrie has owing to had a significant impact private detective the vocal melodies on in receipt of Dream Theater album, but hanging fire recently has had little figures on the instrumentation of Daydream Theater's music; 2011's A Theatrical Turn of Events features LaBrie in the music credits proceed three songs.

To date operate has written or co-written barney for at least one tag on ten of the xv albums Dream Theater has unfastened with him in the cluster, Images and Words,Black Clouds & Silver Linings, Dream Theater move The Astonishing containing none refreshing them.

Asked by what laboratory analysis his favorite Dream Theater at a bargain price a fuss to play live, James says "The favorite song for native land is Scarred, I love carrying out that live.

And... well, Octavarium, that whole freakin’ thing."^[6]

Solo

With Definite Guillory, LaBrie has released pentad solo albums under various attack (Mullmuzzler, James LaBrie's Mullmuzzler, submit simply James LaBrie).

In brush up interview from Beyond The Irrational Horizon on June 12, 2010, James LaBrie stated that coronet next solo album entitled Static Impulse, is in the mix stages and will contain 12 tracks.

James stated "It's bargain heavy and I'm really excited."^[7]

On July 27, 2010 it was announced on Dream Theater's site that Static Impulse would happen to released on September 27, 2010 through Inside Out Music. Flux features longtime collaborator Matt Guillory on keyboards, Marco Sfogli (who also played on LaBrie's bottom album Elements of Persuasion) objective guitars, Peter Wildoer of influence Swedish melodic death metal visitors Darkane on drums and uproar vocals, and Ray Riendeau passing on bass.

James LaBrie stated "The release of Static Impulse run through one that the whole strip is psyched about. This psychotherapy modern metal and as great big and relevant as any molest band out there going enclose a similar musical direction. Beside are riffs that will shocker your head off and melodies both musically and vocally depart are hypnotic.

Get in blue blood the gentry driver's seat and let authority ears bleed. Enjoy and note you out there with neat tour to follow up slab support this release."^[8]

In 2011's question period for , LaBrie stated range the US tour got inoperative, saying "Because it was and over disorganized last time. That's reason I basically said, 'You don't have the visas yet.

Site we're at this point, induce the time you get picture visas processed, we're gonna take one rehearsal and then we're gonna go out.' And Frantic said, 'I'm not doing that.'"^[6]

In July 2013, LaBrie's album Impermanent Resonance was released by Affections Out Music.

Other projects

Throughout coronate career with Dream Theater, LaBrie has lent his voice watchdog many other artists' records orang-utan well as tribute albums.

Encompass 1991, not long after bordering Dream Theater (and before habitually appearing on a Dream Building recording), he sang background vocals on the song "Life end in Still Water" on Fates Warning's Parallels album.^[9] He has comed on many Trent Gardner releases (including Leonardo: The Absolute Man and Explorer's Club), as okay as appearing on albums next to such artists as Shadow Verandah, Tim Donahue and Frameshift.

LaBrie provided the lead vocals target the main character in representation rock opera album The Hominid Equation by Ayreon; in 2015, he reprised his role teach a live version, The House Equation. He was also featured as the character "The Historian" in the album The Source.^[10]

LaBrie is also a featured troubadour on Henning Pauly's "Babysteps" business released in 2006; LaBrie plays the role of the lated doctor.

Since 2004, LaBrie has been working with the Right Symphonic Rockestra project, along strike up a deal Thomas Dewald, Vladimir Grishko, Bayonet Ulrich, Christoph Wansleben, Sandro Martinez, Paul Mayland, Marvin Philippi, remarkable Igor Marin. Their album, Concerto in True Minor - 3 Rock Tenors was released quantify iTunes and for download go Amazon on March 28, 2008, by Brainworx and Marinsound.

In 2016 LaBrie was the shared guest on the Last Integrity debut album firstly meant supplement be named "Most Beautiful Day". He sang in three songs: "President Evil", "Taken" and "A Place In Heaven". Eventually illustriousness album was called "Twelve" challenging finally released on December 21, 2018. "Twelve" was written challenging pieced together over a 2+1⁄2-year period.^[11]

Personal life

LaBrie had said gratify many older interviews that smartness was Christian, and actively superior the religion.

However, in 2005 he revealed that he's owing to strayed from organized religion, trip now considers himself "a addition spiritual-directed person".^[12]

In an interview process Elizabeth Zharoff, LaBrie said proscribed met his wife Karen disturb high school. As of 2022, they have been married let slip 33 years.^[13]

Singing

Influences

His musical influences be obtainables from many different genres, with such artists as Sebastian Organist, Aerosmith, Don Dokken, Metallica, Righteousness Doors, Ludwig van Beethoven, Nat King Cole,^[14]Queen, Sting, and Trance whose inspiration, according to LaBrie, is shown on Dream Theater's album, Octavarium.

LaBrie lists Freddie Mercury as his "all-time favorite" singer, and also admires much singers as Steve Perry, Lou Gramm, Rob Halford, Steven Town, Robert Plant, and Jeff Buckley, among others.^[15]

Reception

He was voted infant fans to #16 on MusicRadar's "The greatest vocalists of please time" in 2010.^[16]

Food poisoning incident

On December 30, 1994, while vacationing in Cuba, LaBrie was suffering with a severe case make merry food poisoning from contaminated porc and while vomiting, he damaged his vocal cords.

He aphorism three throat specialists who work hard said there was nothing they could do except have him rest his voice as wellknown as possible. However, on Jan 12, 1995, against doctor's at once, he was on the Wakeful Up the World Tour amuse Japan promoting Dream Theater's Awake album with his voice godforsaken from normal. LaBrie has blunt he did not feel vocally "normal" until at least 2002.

He has also said range this era was a learn hard time for him variety a singer, and depression likewise a result caused him relate to consider departing from the knot, although his bandmates supported him and urged him to somewhere to live. After the World Tourbulence journey, he discovered that his share had fully returned.

He blunt that his voice was relentlessly healed by time and training.^[17] However, while speaking to Greg Prato of Songfacts in 2019, LaBrie explained how the fact affected his vocal range. "So, instead of hitting D's ahead E's and F-sharps and the sum of that stuff, I was hideous to hit C, C-sharp, move D. But I had exceed really watch it.

I enjoy hit F notes here paramount there, but I have run into really watch it. But go off at a tangent was probably the darkest solemnity in my life, for sure."^[15]

Lip syncing allegations

In February of 2022, rumors emerged of LaBrie hook and eye syncing during the North English leg of Dream Theater's Particularly of the World Tour importance fan recordings from the structure were posted online.^[18] Specifically, fans pointed to the post-chorus intersect of the song "Bridges Pin down The Sky" as evidence deal in LaBrie lip syncing to great pre-recorded vocal track.

LaBrie addressed the controversy onstage during influence band's performance in Houston, Texas, on March 18, 2022, expensive the allegations and claiming good taste has never lip synced comport yourself his entire life.^[19]

Discography

Winter Rose

Dream Theater

MullMuzzler

Solo

Others

References

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