Faris Rotter

Faris Badwan
Background information
Birth name	Faris Adam Badwan
Born	(1986-09-21) 21 September 1986 (age 30) Bexley, Southeast London, England
Origin	Leamington Spa/Rugby, England
Genres	Neo-psychedelia, post-punk revival, shoegazing, garage rock revival, alternative rock, classical
Occupation(s)	Musician, vocalist, artist
Instruments	Vocals, guitar, keyboards
Years active	2005–present
Labels	Loog Stolen Transmission Polydor XL Recordings
Associated acts	The Horrors, the Rotters, Lumina, Cat's Eyes
Notable instruments
Fender Mustang, Tokai Stratocaster

Faris Badwan (born 21 September 1986) is an English musician, best known as the lead vocalist of the Horrors, and more recently as half of Cat's Eyes.

Born in Bexley, Southeast London on 21 September 1986 to a Palestinian father and English mother, Badwan grew up in Warwickshire along with three brothers.

In 1999, Badwan obtained a scholarship to the exclusive public boarding school Rugby School, where he met future Horrors bassist and synthesiser player Tom Cowan, previously known as Tomethy Furse. Continuing his education, Badwan moved to London to study illustration at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design in 2004, eventually deferring from his studies to concentrate on his musical career with the band.

Badwan is best known as vocalist for the Horrors, an alternative rock band formed in Southend-on-Sea in 2005. Their debut album, Strange House, was released in 2007. Badwan became notorious for his onstage activities, which have featured violence, the use of black paint to mark audience members, scaling anything available and using items found in the stage area to antagonise the audience. Badwan and his band were thrown out of a concert in Massachusetts in 2007 after he accidentally smashed a ceramic bust of Elvis Presley on stage.

Prior to forming the Horrors, Faris took part in pseudo-punk band the Rotters, named after the novel The Rotters' Club by Jonathan Coe.

...
Wikipedia