David Virgin

Quick Facts

Full Name	David Virgin
Occupation	Irish Musician
Date Of Birth	Jan 14, 1962(1962-01-14)
Age	62
Birthplace	Dublin
Country	Ireland
Horoscope	Capricorn

David Virgin Biography

David Virgin is one of the most popular and richest Irish musician who was born on January 14, 1962 in Dublin, Ireland. David Virgin was born in North Dublin on 14 January 1962. As a child , he immigrated from Ireland to Australia together with his parents. He was raised in Sydney and was a student at Christian Brothers College, Burwood. In 1978 at the age of 16 years old, Virgin began his first band The Broken Toys as bass musician and primary writer. The band was rounded out by Peter Mullany (of Johnny Dole The Scabs and Johnny Dole The Scabs) on lead guitar, Andrew Campbell on rhythm guitar and vocals, and Virgin’s brother John drummer, who became replaced later by Paul Cosgrove. Broken Toys Broken Toys played 60’s pop that was influenced by melodic punk with the sound of The Buzzcocks. They played frequently on The Grand Hotel, Broadway, Sydney.

In 1991, Virgin was reunited together with SPK along with Sekret Sekret with bandmate Dan Rumour to record the David Virgin solo album “Landlord Green” prior to going on tour in Europe from 1992. Since then, Virgin has been a constant presence in the underground music scene in Europe and Australia making seven more solo albums “No Fun Sessions”, “Dublin 7”, “Rock N Roll Meditations”, “Posing As A Sodomite”, “International Treasure”, “Boots ‘N’ Tooths” and “The Beautiful Album”. The singer also released a second record with Dan Rumour in 2004 titled “Virgin & Rumour”. In his career as a live performer, Virgin has performed on stage with musicians and artists like Nick Cave, John Cooper Clarke, Jonathan Richman, Mary Black, INXS, The Church, The Triffids, The Go Betweens, Cat Power, Lloyd Cole, Billy Bragg and Tim Freedman.

The Broken Toys disbanded in ’79 and shortly after that Virgin formed The Ugly Mirrors with Dan Rumour, Des Devlin and Peter McGregor. The Ugly Mirrors quickly became Sekret Sekret with the final line up including Colin Ellis on drums and Peter Mullany on second guitar who came over from Johnny Dole & The Scabs. Sekret Sekret performed and recorded for six years earning 5 number one singles on the Australian independent charts including the “noted underground classic New King Jack”. Sekret Sekret gained national exposure performing live on the likes of Seven Network’s Sounds and interviewed by host Donnie Sutherland, and were played on high rotation on Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s Double J and performed a live to air concert on Triple J, some of which appears on 2008 record Sekret Sekret – Happy Town Sounds (Singles, Live & Rare). Sekret Sekret’s final line up included Ken Gormley (The Cruel Sea) on bass and James Elliot (The Cruel Sea) on Drums with Des Devlin moving to share the lead guitar duties with Dan Rumour. In 1985 Sekret Sekret released their last single “Just to Love You”, disbanding shortly after. Three of the members of Sekret Sekret went on to form Australian rock band The Cruel Sea with singer Tex Perkins.

In 2009 Virgin was featured on the front cover of alternative LA publication Punk Globe, the issue contained an interview with Virgin conducted by Joe Dallesandro, actor, model and star of Andy Warhol films including Flesh, Trash and Heat.

In 1984, Virgin released and recorded an album with Leonard Samperi entitled “Possession/Give It Up” through Waterfront Records. The single was produced and produced by Clive Shakespeare of Australian pop and rock band Sherbet who also engineered several Sekret Sekret singles, including “Girl With a White Stick/Chimes” and “Just To Love You/Waterbirds”.

David Virgin Net Worth

David Virgin is one of the richest Irish Musician from Ireland. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, David Virgin 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

David Anthony Healy, who is known as David Virgin (born 14 January 1962) is an Irish born Australian musician writer, songwriter, author, and producer of music. In the 1980s, he was part of the punk and the industrial group SPK and later joined an alternative rock group, Sekret Sekret. He performed in the 1990s and the 2000s when he toured Australia as well as Europe. He recorded and performed as a solo performer and as a part of several groups.

In 1979, Virgin began working with Graeme Revell, Neil Hill and guitarist Dan Rumour as bassist for the industrial group SPK which he wrote with and recorded the first seven” recordings “No More”, “Kontakt”, “Factory”, “Germanik”, “Retard”, “Slogun” and “Mekano”. In an interview in 2018 by Pantograph Punch magazine Graeme Revell acknowledged the initial SPK lineup, as well as their contribution to the band “‘Over all these years, I would never correct any rumour that developed. But now I know there are some people who were in the band early on that wanted a bit of credit for what they did, so I’ll give it to them.’ Revell took the name Operator, and Steven Hill the name Ne/H/il. In Sydney, they met a couple of younger guys who completed the live setup (Danny Rumour and David Virgin, each who went on to be successful musicians in their own right).” In 1984, a compilation CD was released, titled The Industrial Records Story and included SPK (band)’s 1979 record “Mekano” alongside Throbbing Gristle, William S. Burroughs, Cabaret Voltaire (band), Leather Nun and Elisabeth Welch. Early SPK recordings featuring Virgin were also mentioned in the renowned book RE/Search 6/7 Industrial Culture Handbook

In 2006 the SPK song Slogun was sampled in the song Hakai (Deathtroy) by Kyono, and DJ Starscream (real name Sidney George Wilson of the band Slipknot (band)) . The song appeared on the official tribute album ‘The Songs for Death Note the movie～the Last name Tribute～’ which was released alongside the film Death Note 2: The Last Name and published by Sony Music Distribution (Japan)

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David Ranked on the list of most popular Irish musician. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Ireland. David Virgin celebrates birthday on January 14 of every year.