Dan Smith
| Dan Smith | |
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| Born | April 15, 1980[1][2] Middlesbrough, England |
| 🏡 Residence | Tustin, California, U.S. |
| 💼 Occupation | |
| 👩 Spouse(s) | Skully Smith (2009-present) |
| 🌐 Website | CapturedTattoo.com |
Dan Smith[3] (born April 15, 1980 in Middlesbrough, England), is a New Zealand tattooist and musician. At the age of six, he moved to Auckland. Spending his childhood captured by music, Dan played in many bands all the way up until his early twenties. In 2001, after an intensive visual tattoo education from Dean Parkin and Dan Andersen of Sacred Tattoo in Auckland, Dan began traveling playing music and pursuing his self-taught tattoo career, spending the most part of two years in Australia.
In 2004, Dan moved to Los Angeles, California. In 2006 he started the alternative/new wave band The Dear & Departed. Signing to Science Records saw the release of their first LP Something Quite Peculiar. In 2008 he was invited to work at Kat Von D's world famous tattoo shop High Voltage Tattoo in Hollywood. In 2009 he was picked up to be a feature on the hit TLC television show LA Ink. Smith appears as one of the main artists during the third and fourth seasons of the show.
In January 2010, The Dear & Departed released an EP on Equal Vision Records called Chapters and set out on a relentless touring schedule. The Dear & Departed disbanded in 2012.[4][5] He is a notable artist in the hardcore music scene, having tattooed musicians such as Winston McCall of Parkway Drive, JJ Peters of Deez Nuts and formerly of I Killed The Prom Queen and Jona Weinhofen of I Killed The Prom Queen and formerly of Bring Me The Horizon and Bleeding Through. He is currently the bassist/vocalist for Sharp Shock.
Smith is Straight Edge.[6]
Smith met wife Skully, co-owner of Modern Compassion and Beachbody coach, in 2007. They wed in 2009 and moved to Tustin, California where Dan embarked on a new venture and opened his very own tattoo shop Captured Tattoo in 2014.
References[edit]
- ↑ "Kiwi tattooist leaves his mark on US reality show". TV3/3News. 12 January 2010. Retrieved 12 January 2014. Indicates age 29.
- ↑ Russell, Nicola (28 November 2010). "Tiki time for Hollywood artist". Fairfax NZ News. Retrieved 12 January 2014. Indicates age 30.
- ↑ Kremkau, Bryan (14 August 2009). "The Dear & Departed signs with Equal Vision Records". READJUNK. Retrieved 13 July 2010.
- ↑ Harkins, Ray. "'LA Ink's' Dan Smith Hates Fur!". PETA2 Free for All. Retrieved 13 July 2010.
- ↑ Fletcher, Alex (18 September 2007). "Gallows design Alan Partridge tattoos". Digital Spy. Retrieved 13 July 2010.
- ↑ "Dan Smith". One Life, One Chance. September 14, 2010. Retrieved May 18, 2016.
External links[edit]
- Dan Smith Tattoos official site
- Dan Smith at High Voltage Tattoo
- Dan Smith profile at LA Ink
- Dan Smith Profile at Swallows&Daggers
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