DANI FILTH (CRADLE OF FILTH)

Dani Filth (born '''Daniel Lloyd Davey''' on July 25, 1973 in Hertford, England) is the lyricist, vocalist and founding member of the British extreme metal band Cradle of Filth.

Dani was born to '''Susan Janet Moore''' and '''Lawrence John Davey''' and is the oldest child of four. Dani has two sisters; Amanda (b. 1975) and Rachel (b. 1978); and a brother, Phillip (b.1981).

His earliest bands were Carnival Fruitcake, The Lemon Grove Kids, PDA and Feast of Excrement,and he named Judas Priest, Venom (band), Emperor (band), Destruction (band), Iron Maiden, Sabbat, Misfits, Paradise Lost and Tim Burton]]'s ''The Nightmare Before Christmas'' among his major influences. At the age of eighteen, Filth took up a job at a Chinese restaurant. He later chose his career in music over an internship at a newspaper, although his "Dani's Inferno" column ran for two years in ''Metal Hammer'' during the late 1990s.

Cradle had no actual proper record deal (barring an abortive relationship with Tombstone Records) until 1994, when their first album, ''The Principle of Evil Made Flesh'' was released by Cacophonous. Filth is one of the only two remaining members of the band's original line-up.

He married his girlfriend of 14 years, Toni, on October 31, 2005 in Ipswich, and the two share a daughter, Luna Scarlett (b. February 8, 1999).

He lives in Suffolk, England and is currently working on co-writing ''The Gospel of Filth'' with Gavin Baddeley.

Away from Cradle, Dani appeared on the ''Roadrunner United'' CD in 2005 (contributing vocals to "Dawn of a Golden Age"), and his high profile has also led to a handful of film and television roles. In 2000 he appeared in the movie ''Cradle of Fear'' as The Man - a deranged psychopath taking revenge on his father's persecutors - and in 2003 he provided the voice of the eponymous main character in the feature-length animation ''Dominator''. He also appeared during the final season of Bam Margera's MTV series ''Viva La Bam'' in an episode involving a stolen Hummer and a Cradle of Filth concert in Pennsylvania. The episode featured a portion of Cradle of Filth performing the song "Nemesis" from the album ''Nymphetamine''. Additionally, the song "Her Ghost in the Fog" from the album ''Midian'' was used in the background in the episode "Scavenger Hunt", when Bam dropped a piano on Ryan Dunn and Raab Himself's "Policia" car. "Her Ghost In The Fog" was also featured when Bam and Dunn went to a castle in Europe to get wine for his parents' anniversary.