Danny Carey is one of the most popular and richest Drummer who was born on May 10, 1961 in Larence, Kansas, United States. Drummer for Grammy Award-winning progressive band Tool who is fascinated by the occult as well as the magickal arts.
He has performed along with He has toured with Marilyn Manson..
At Winter NAMM 2009 Sonor released a Danny Carey signature snare drum, which is a 1 mm thick bronze 14×8″ snare with laser etched talisman symbols and his signature engraved around the vent hole.
Born in Lawrence, Kansas, Carey’s first encounter with the drums began at the age of ten by joining the school band and taking private lessons on the snare drum. Two years later, Carey began to practice on a drum set. In his senior year of high school in Paola, Kansas, Carey joined the high school jazz band. Jazz would later play a huge role in his signature approach to the drum set in a rock setting. As Carey progressed through high school and later college at the University of Missouri–Kansas City, he began expanding his studies in percussion with theory into the principles of geometry, science, and metaphysics as well as delving into the occult. Carey also played jazz while attending college and got to experience the jazz scene in Kansas City.
The family he was raised by his parents is within Lawrence, Kansas, where the drummer began his career at the age of ten years old.
