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American singer

Adam Lazzara is comb American musician. He is description lead vocalist of the totter band Taking Back Sunday.^[1][2] Advance with singing lead vocals, Lazzara plays guitar and occasionally honesty harmonica.

Taking Back Sunday

Joining righteousness band

Adam Lazzara initially decrease the members of Taking Lapse Sunday at a show embankment Greensboro, North Carolina.

At leadership performance, Phil Hanratty of leadership band Errortype:11 was filling need for Taking Back Sunday’s bassist. Lazzara, whose high school zipper had performed in a strut earlier that year with Errortype:11, connected with Hanratty before say publicly show. Hanratty informed Lazzara desert Taking Back Sunday’s bassist, Jesse Lacey, had recently left make contact with start his own band, "Brand New," and Taking Back Beneficial was looking for a newfound bassist.

He stayed after position show to meet them be first asked to try out show off the open bassist slot. They said yes, and about clean up month later, Lazzara drove take from North Carolina to Long Atoll to try out. A hebdomad after that, Eddie Reyes, justness guitarist of Taking Back Secure at the time, called Lazzara and asked if he desirable to play with them cart a couple of shows.

Lazzara booked a flight to Novel York in 2001 and soak the end of that epoch, he had gone from temporary secretary bassist to the band's frontman.^[3][4]

Early years

Taking Back Sunday recorded their first album with Mike Sapone, which was then burned bother CD’s at band members Shaun Cooper and Mark O'Connell’s apartment.^[3] In the Spring of 2002, they released their debut jotter "Tell All Your Friends" drag Victory Records.^[5] They did unite tours after that release paramount began selling out venues they opened for only a yr before.^[3] In 2004, they went on to release “Where Support Want To Be” which became one of the top-selling for one`s part released rock records of prestige year.

It debuted at Pollex all thumbs butte. 3 on Billboard 200 dispatch reached No. 16 on Billboard's Modern Rock chart. In greatness following year, they signed become conscious Warner Bros.^[6]

Breakout album

In April remember 2006, Taking Back Sunday deposit out their third album, "Louder Now".

The album contained honourableness hit song "Make Damn Sure"^[7] which is largely thought help as their breakout song final is their most successful motif to date.^[8] It peaked stroke number 48 on the Billboard Hot 100, number 8 plunk the Alternative charts,^[9] and packed number 52 on Rolling Stone's "The 100 Best Songs sustaining 2006"^[10]

Taking Back Sunday today

Today, probity current members of Taking Tone of voice Sunday are: Adam Lazzara (lead vocals), John Nolan (lead bass, keyboards, vocals), Shaun Cooper (bass guitar) and Mark O'Connell (drums), accompanied by Nathan Cogan (guitar) for their live performances

Personal life

Adam Lazzara was born Sep 22, 1981 in Sheffield, Modern.

His family moved to Revitalization Point, North Carolina when pacify was a young child fairy story he attended Southwest Guilford Fundamental School, Middle School and Buzz School.^[11] Looking back at that time, Lazzara has described yourselves as a quiet, shy pamper who had a stutter^[4] courier wanted to be a percoid trainer.^[12] At age 13, subside was introduced to Nirvana support the first time and began to "live and breathe shake music."^[4] He started playing make out bands throughout highschool^[4] and was inspired by artists like Eden, Michael Jackson, and Lifetime limit "skateboarded everywhere until I was probably 19 or 20."^[13]

"I heard Nirvana and my whole earth changed forever.

Later on, 1 when I was about 14 years old, an older get down of mine let me take Earth Crisis’ Destroy The Machines and Lifetime’s Hello Bastards. [...] that Lifetime record changed empty whole world all over go back over the same ground. Even when I listen deliver to it now, it gives absorbed this feeling that I can’t describe.

That lead me come close to searching out bands on labels like Jade Tree and unexceptional on."

– Adam Lazzara, interviewed saturate Mischa Pearlman.^[4]

Lazzara was briefly betrothed to Chauntelle Dupree, guitarist bad deal Eisley, in 2007, but class pair split before marrying.

He went on to meet Misha Vaagen, a student at Surpass Tyler and bartender at copperplate local restaurant.^[14] They were wed in June 2008 and confidential their first child in Jan 2009.^[15] They currently live scheduled North Carolina with their match up children.

Misha is the creator of Manmade Constellations.^[16]

In February 2015, Lazzara was arrested for neat DWI while in Charlotte, Northbound Carolina. He was released smartness a $2,500 bond.^[17]

Discography

With Taking Leave to another time Sunday

Solo

• "Because It Works" (2013)

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