Bray Owens

**Bray Kramer Owens** (born 8/9/79) is a American musician currently the vocalist for Fang. He's best known for being the vocalist for Wadded Up.

## Bray Owens

### Born

August 9, 1979 (age 43); Marquette, Michigan, U.S.

## Musical Career

### Genres

Alternative metal, Nu metal, Extreme metal, Death metal, Pop metal, Industrial metal, Groove metal, Doom metal, Hardcore punk (early)

## Early life

Bray Owens was born in Marquette, Michigan on August 9, 1979. He suffers from ADHD and Autism since he was 3 years old. He initially wanted to animate for Nickelodeon after High School but switched to music after 10th grade. He has 2 siblings, Bray's the eldest of the 3 siblings.

## Wadded Up (1997-2004, 2017)

Bray Owens and Ferdinand Simpson met each other at a high school Winterfest dance. They formed a band right after high school and recruited Lorna Shafer on bass and her brother Lexi Shafer on drums. The band released a demo which caught the attention of Psychopathic Records who signed the band to a 2 album deal ending in 2004. In 1999, the band released their debut album *Xtreme*, a song called "A Certain Future" blew up because it was the theme song for WCW Mayhem 2000. In 2001 the band released their second and final album *Bleak Future*. In 2002, the band announced a farewell tour that started in 2003 and concluded in 2004. The band broke up in 2004 and the members went on to separate things. Bray Owens went on to form Fang in 2007, Lorna and Lexi Shafer went on to become a bass and electric guitar tech and drum tech for various bands of Dayglow Records, currently working with Hatbox and Ferdinand Simpson would see success as a country singer. However, in 2017. It was announced that Wadded Up would join Linkin Park in a 4th of July performance set to take place in Milwaukee.

## Fang (2007-present)

Fang began in 2007 out of the influential band Wadded Up disbanding. He recruited Cyril Acres (bass), Alastor Turini (lead guitar) and Lloyd Helms (drums). They recorded a 8 song demo which caught the eye of Dayglow Records, who signed the band in late 2007. In 2008, the band started recording their debut effort *Prism Threat* which released in 2009. In late 2009 the band opened for Stitchface for the Michigan dates. In 2011, the band released their second album *Suicide King* and headlined Dayglow's annual Wicked Festival with Shattered Silence, Blakk Army and a newly reunited Revis in 2012. In 2013, the band recorded their third album. 2014's *The Damned Ones* which the second song on the album "Designed for Destruction" co-won a Grammy Award for Best Metal Performance with The Negative One by Slipknot. The band embarked as a supporting act to Blakk Army's North America tour in 2016. In 2017 the band released their fourth album *Skin and Bone* which was certified diamond by the RIAA in 2018. In late 2018, the band went on their first headlining tour with Plague Vendor as the supporting act which concluded in August 2019. In 2020, the band released their fifth album *Xanny*. In 2022, the band released their sixth album *Burning River*. Currently, the band are on tour with Impulse and Six Finger called the *Blood Threat Tour*.

## Discography

### With Wadded Up

*Xtreme (1999)*

*Bleak Future (2001)*

### With Fang

*Prism Threat (2009)*

*Suicide King (2011)*

*The Damned Ones (2014)*

*Skin and Bone (2017)*

*Xanny (2020)*

*Burning River (2022)*

## Personal life

Bray currently resides at a ranch in Elk Rapids, Michigan. With his wife; Sinistar driver Emily Stahl, they were married since 2020. Bray was married to former WWE wrestler Sunny from 2006 to 2011 (having two children named Paul \*born 2007\* and Juno Owens \*born 2011\*) and was married to Murry Peters from 2013 to 2018 where they had one child together named JP (Jermaine Piper) Owens \*born 2014\*. Bray has all three children.

Bray owns a dark brown male Arabian horse named "Daron", a grey Brahman bull named "Nitcher", a tamed lion named "Narnia" and a grey wolf named "Robyn". He has owned a black bear named "Somnambula" (2001-2017) and a buck named "Goliath" (1998-2017).

Bray lives a vegan lifestyle and eats fruit. as he believes animal cruelty is wrong. He's also straight-edge.

He has a tattoo of Eric Cartman from South Park on the back of his neck, a tattoo of Mebh and Robyn from Wolfwalkers on the left side of his forearm, a tattoo of this without watermark and white background on his right forearm, a tattoo of God's Hate's album cover on the throat part of his neck, a tattoo of Scorpi from Mixels on the right side of neck, a tattoo of the Nonpoint spider logo on the left side of his neck, tattoos on his knuckles that say "DARK HOURS" enlarged and in Drakon font and a tattoos of wrapped barbed wire on his collar bones and legs.