David Readman

David was born in Burnley, a small town in northern England, in a miner's family. However, David's mother sang and his grandmother played the piano, so David inherited their talent. Readman left his study at school at 15 to go to work, but at the same time he had established several rock bands such as Alander, Sixmyth, Splatterpunk and played in local clubs. In 1989, at his 19, David entered Nelson and Colne Music College, where he studied professional singing. He left the college two years later but remained in London. David did not thought about devoting himself to music seriously but during his travel to picnic his friend was impressed about Readman singing of Led Zeppelin classics. Following his friend's advice, David started recording of multiple demo tapes and send them to advertisements he found at English magazine "Melody Maker". Readman was invited for audition and work by Adrian Smith from Iron Maiden, a piano virtuoso Thomas McRocklin, guitarist Misha Calvin, who later released a demo without the consent of David. One of the advertisements in response to which David sent out his demo was given by German band Pink Cream 69.
June 17, 1994, David flew out to Germany for audition. Both David and The Pinkies was agreed for collaboration right after the first meeting. In November he signed a contract, and since then he began his vocal duties at Pink Cream 69.
In June 2000, at a concert in France, David met Stephan Forte and their collaboration resulted in progressive power metal band Adagio. At the same time The Pinkies began working on their EP "Mixery" in the Dennis Ward's studio "House of Audio". David had to work one day with PC69 and another one with Adagio - fortunately, the producer of Adagio's album was also Dennis Ward. The first Adagio CD "Sanctus Ignus" was released in late June 2001.
Together with Dennis Ward David has participated in another project. Rock opera "Missa Mercuria", where David performed narrator's text and sang three songs, was released in November 2002 in Germany.
Second album of Adagio "Underworld" was released in November 2003. In early 2004, David went on a tour with Adagio in France and Belgium, and two weeks after the end of this tour he was already on the road again - now with The Pinkies. In 2004, David has released his last album up to date with Adagio "A Band in Upperworld".
On August 31, 2007, David released his first solo album "David Readman". He wrote and recorded the material for this album in 2006. Then he was interrupted to record "In10sity" with Pink Cream 69, and finally David finished his solo work by February 2007.
David participates in a plenty of projects and performes frequently at various clubs in Germany. Some time ago, David has collaborated with Alex Beyrodt, and in the spring of 2008 they have created a very successful hard-rock project Voodoo Circle. Also, David has his own studio "Emerald" in Karlsruhe area, where he is producing and giving vocal, guitar and studio work lessons.
In addition to his singing in PC69 Readman wrote most of the texts and music of several songs.
Since 1994 David lives in Karlsruhe area, but he visits England often.

Article written by Tanya 'ivanna' Valchishena