Joe King

The existence of the group The Fray, known for the songs How to Save a Life and Never Say Never, would have been impossible without its ideological inspirer, guitarist and author of most of the songs, Joe King. For 20 years of his musical career, he managed to be remembered not only as a member of an American band, but also as a solo artist and producer.

Little is known about the early life of Joseph King. The musician was born on May 25, 1980 in Colorado, presumably in the city of Arvada. Brought up in a Catholic family, graduated from the Faith Christian Academy. His classmate was Isaac Slade, the future co-founder of The Fray.

Before becoming a musician, Joe worked as a car damage assessor in accidents. In his free time, he helped in churches in Denver, Colorado.

As a child, King learned to play the piano, but left school to learn another instrument - the guitar. Once in an interview, the musician admitted that his decision was influenced by society:

In 1999, in a Denver music store, Joe accidentally bumped into classmate Isaac Slade. Isaac played the piano, like King, and volunteered to help in churches. Young people sometimes gathered at home, jammed, that is, they improvised, invented melodies.

Even before the creation of The Fray, King was a member of the Fancys Show Box, but only in 2002 found his place with Slade (vocals, keyboards), Ben Vysotsky (drums) and Dave Welch (guitar). All members of The Fray are deeply religious. Joe, Isaac and Ben all graduated from the same school, and the lyrics often mention higher powers. The musicians ask not to be called a religious group, but at the same time they are convinced that God has called them to broadcast the truth in a language that everyone can understand - through music.

The name of the quartet was chosen at random. Young people asked friends to write different words on pieces of paper, and then pulled out one of them. "Fray" in translation from English means "fight", "fight". Once in an interview, King admitted that at first the name accurately described their relationship in the group: the musicians often quarreled over the sound and lyrics.

In 2002, The Fray released their debut mini-compilation Movement. In the songs It's for You and Where You Want To, Joe King received the lead vocal part. In total, the album includes 4 compositions. A year later, the compilation album Reason was released, which made the group famous in Denver. Some tracks - Vienna, Oceans Away - were broadcast on local radio, and the Westword newspaper recognized them as the best collective in Colorado. Upon hearing Vienna, Epic Records became interested in The Fray. In 2004, the parties signed a contract.

The first studio album, How to Save a Life (2005), peaked at number 15 on the Billboard 200, and brought the musicians national popularity. The song of the same name remained in the top 3 of the Billboard Hot 100 for 58 weeks. All songs for the debut and subsequent albums were written by King and Slade. Heaven Forbid is dedicated to Joe's sister, so he sang the lead role. Also, the voice of the guitarist sounds on backing vocals in the songs How to Save a Life, Look After You and Trust Me.

In 2009, the band's second album, The Fray, became the leader of the Billboard 200, and their most beloved song was Never Say Never, written by Joe King. The track tells about the love of two people who "part and converge again and again." The text is based on the moment of the musician's personal life - a divorce from his first wife Julia.

Never Say Never went platinum in the United States, entered Billboard's Hot Top 100 Songs of 2009, and became the soundtrack for Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, and was nominated for a Grammy for Best Pop Performance.

In May 2005, the premiere of the video for Never Say Never took place, the script of which was entrusted to King. The destroyed city was captured by the lens. People flee in panic from explosions and fires, policemen are trying to help the survivors. Isaac Slade walks through the crowd to the girl played by American fashion model Jamie King. In the finale, lovers who have found each other watch as Los Angeles explodes.

Before starting to record the third album, The Fray decided to take a break from the fallen popularity and large-scale concerts. The musicians took part of the money that was given for the recording of the disc and went to travel the world.

The new locations inspired The Fray to create compositions. For example, the lyrics for Heartbeat were born in Rwanda, and "1961" was at the Berlin Wall. The compositions brought from different countries in 2012 were added to the Scars & Stories album. It peaked at # 4 on the Billboard 200, selling 87,000 copies in its first week.

In 2013, Joe King announced his decision to record his album. Breaking, released in April of the same year under the pseudonym King, included 6 songs. The musician's colleagues from The Fray were the first to hear them. They noted that solo work is not like what they do together, and Slade said:

Two years later, King presented his second compilation, Union Moon, which includes 5 tracks. In his support, the guitarist gave several performances in his native Colorado. In 2014, The Fray's fourth studio album "Helios" was released, and in 2016, a collection of the band's best songs entitled Through the Years: The Best of the Fray. It includes 9 already known tracks and 3 new songs.

King managed to try himself as a producer: in 2008 he worked with Chris Allen, winner of the 8th season of the American Idol music TV show. At the request of the aspiring artist, Joe composed the music for the cover version of Kanye West's song Heartless, which was included on the Kris Allen album (2009). The rehash was to the taste of the famous music producer Timbaland. Later, the performers recorded the joint track Undertow for the album Shock Value II.

In the personal life of Joe King - 2 marriages and 3 children.

For the first time a musician got married at the age of 19. His chosen one was a girl named Julia, she gave birth to the wife of daughters Ava and Elise. Now the girls are under joint custody, and King often appears with them in public.

In 2012, at the Super Bowl, Joe met actress Candice Accola, who plays Caroline Forbes on The Vampire Diaries. In May 2013, the musician invited the girl to become Candice King. The wedding took place in October 2014 in New Orleans, Louisiana. Two years later, a daughter, Florence May, was born in the family.

Judging by the musician's Instagram, now he is focused on family happiness. For example, Joe met New Year 2019 in the company of his beloved women - mothers, spouses and daughters.

It is difficult to judge how soon King plans to return to creativity, while there are no hints of creating both solo albums and as part of The Fray.

2005 - "How to Save a Life" 2009 - "The Fray" 2012 - "Scars & Stories" 2014 - "Helios" 2016 - "Through the Years: The Best of the Fray"

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