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Dave Navarro
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With his six-string skills best described as a merger between heavy metal, psychedelia and modern rock, Dave Navarro became one of alternative's first true guitar heroes (with such notorious bands as Jane's Addiction and The Red Hot Chili Peppers). Born on June 7, 1967 in California, Navarro became mesmerized by the guitar as a teenager, due to his discovery of the incomparable Jimi Hendrix. This led to an appreciation of a wide variety of musical styles - in fact, when he met singer Perry Farrell initially, he was in a speed metal band (along with drummer Stephen Perkins). Navarro, Perkins, Farrell, and bassist Eric Avery formed Jane's Addiction in the mid-80's, and alt-rock has never been the same since.
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Dave Navarro began his music education on the piano at the age of 6, but dropped the instrument in favor of the guitar by the time he was 12. His early years were disrupted by increasingly traumatic events, beginning with the separation of his parents when he was 7 and culminating the the murder of his mother and aunt by his mother's ex-boyfriend when he was 15; a pronounced inclination towards the morbid in Navarro was the inevitable result. Exposure to the songs of Jimi Hendrix convinced him that his future was as a rock musician, and he subsequently devoted as much time as possible to honing his playing ability. While still in school he formed a "classic rock" cover band with friends, later moving on to speed metal with the band Dizastre. By his junior year in high school he had dropped out, and shortly afterwards moved to Westwood to pursue the life of a professional rock musician.
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Dave Navarro was born to James Raul "Mike" Navarro and Constance Colleen Hopkins. Dave Navarro's paternal grandfather was an illegal Mexican immigrant who was orphaned after the Mexican Civil War. 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 to not speak Spanish, as James and Constance divorced when he was seven and he spent the majority of his time with his Anglo-Saxon mother. Navarro has two half-siblings on his father's side- a brother and a sister, who are 27 and 31 years younger than he. Navarro has been married three times and divorced twice. He married his first wife, Tanja, in a pagan ceremony in 1990 and his second wife, Rhian, in a civil cermony in 1994.
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The Dave Navarro guitar, the Yamaha LLX6 DN is based on the original Yamaha LLX6 handcrafted guitar. The LLX6 DN is a handcrafted acoustic guitar decorated with distinctive custom appointments and features a pure white finish with accents of black in the binding, pickguard, and headstock – even inside the guitar body itself.
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Dave Navarro and his new girlfriend hold hands outside of Area on September 22,2007. Fake Paris Hilton and Kevin Connelly ... soak up the scene at Area on Saturday. Nicole Narain comments, "A girl just can't go anywhere these days."... more »
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Dave Navarro, Hilary Duff, Minnie Driver, Laila Ali, and Kim Raver (24) bared it all for a new Vaseline campaign called Skin is Amazing. Each celebrity was asked to show off their favorite body part. Click on the thumbnails below to see what they had to say about their selections.
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