Dan Reynolds

Daniel Coulter Reynolds (born July 14, 1987) is an American singer and songwriter.

He is the lead vocalist of the pop rock band Imagine Dragons.

As a Boy Scout he earned the rank of Eagle Scout in 2005.

Reynolds was a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church).

When he was 19 years old he volunteered full-time as a missionary in Nebraska for two years.

Reynolds wrote the song "I Bet My Life" celebrating and reflecting on his enduring relationship with his parents.

Following his graduation from Bonanza High School, he attended University of Nevada, Las Vegas (after losing his ecclesiastical endorsement for Brigham Young University (BYU)) and then transferred to BYU after serving an LDS mission, where he studied communications, marketing, and music and excelled academically.

While at BYU, he formed Imagine Dragons and won the school's battle of the bands competition before leaving to pursue music full-time.

Reynolds was initially reluctant to become a professional musician, partially because future bandmate Wayne Sermon had once told him: "Don't do music because you want to do music - do music if you have to do music".

After he began attending Brigham Young University, Reynolds found that he could not "do anything else" and committed fully to a professional music career.

In Utah, Reynolds met and recruited drummer Andrew Tolman to form Imagine Dragons.

With Reynolds as lead vocalist, Imagine Dragons won BYU's "Battle of the Bands" and other local competitions.

It was there in 2009 that they caught their first big break when Train's frontman, Pat Monahan, fell sick just prior to the Bite of Las Vegas Festival.

Imagine Dragons were called to fill in for them and performed in front of a crowd of more than 26,000 people.

Reynolds also released an EP in 2011, titled Egyptian – EP, as a duo with his then wife Aja Volkman under the moniker Egyptian.

He is a recipient of the Songwriters Hall of Fame Hal David Starlight Award.

Reynolds was born in Las Vegas, the seventh of nine children (eight boys and one girl) of Christene M. (née Callister) and Ronald Reynolds, a lawyer and author.

Both are natives of Nevada, and Reynolds is a 4th generation Nevadan.

Bassist Ben McKee joined the band in Las Vegas and after Tolman's departure 2011 invited Daniel Platzman, also a friend of Wayne's from Berklee College of Music, to play drums, thus completing the group's current lineup.

The band relocated to Las Vegas, where they began performing almost nightly as a lounge act.

In November 2011, they signed with Interscope Records and began working with Grammy award-winning producer Alex da Kid.

Imagine Dragons released their debut studio album Night Visions on September 4, 2012.

The album was preceded by their first single "It's Time", released on August 18, 2012.

Night Visions charted in the top ten albums in the U.S. in 2012, 2013, and 2014.

It won a Billboard Music Award for Top Rock Album and was nominated for a Juno Award for International Album of the Year.

The album's second single, "Radioactive", reached No. 3 on the Billboard Hot 100.

"Radioactive" set the all-time record for the longest reign at the top of the Billboard Rock Songs chart, with 23 consecutive weeks.

It also broke the all-time record for longest run on the Billboard Hot 100, with 87 weeks, a record that would remain unbroken until The Weeknd's smash single "Blinding Lights" charted for an 88th week on the Billboard Hot 100 in August 2021.

Rolling Stone called it "the biggest rock hit of the year".

It is the best-selling rock song in digital history, with sales of more than 7.5 million copies in the United States, and was certified diamond by the RIAA.

The third single, "Demons", reached No. 6 on the Billboard Hot 100 and is the eighth best-selling rock song in digital history with sales in excess of 5 million copies in the United States.

Imagine Dragons were nominated for two Grammy Awards, Record of the Year and Best Rock Performance; they won the latter.

They also won two AMAs for Favorite Alternative Artist, a Teen Choice Award for Choice Rock Group, a World Music Award for World's Best Rock Act, and a Billboard Music Award for Top Rock Artist.

The band made their major festival headlining debut at the Made In America Music Festival in 2014 and also drew large crowds and positive reviews at festivals such as Lollapalooza Brazil in 2014.

Imagine Dragons released their second album, Smoke + Mirrors, in February 2015.

Smoke + Mirrors debuted at number one on the Billboard 200, UK Albums Chart, and Canadian Albums Chart.

Two of the album's four singles, "I Bet My Life" and "Shots", charted on the Billboard Hot 100.

Imagine Dragons released their third album Evolve on June 23, 2017.

Evolve debuted at number two on the Billboard 200 and number one on the Canadian Albums Chart.

Singles "Believer", "Thunder", and "Whatever It Takes", each of which have charted at number 4, number 4, and number 12 on the Billboard Hot 100, respectively.