Dan Reynolds (singer) 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
Dan Bejar impersonating the singer of the name–resulting in confusion and numerous errors in coverage by the media. Dan Bejar Daniel Bejar (; born October 4, 1972) is an independent singer-songwriter from Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Bejar is known for his musical collaborations with Vancouver indie rock band The New Pornographers, and has released material as the frontman of his band Destroyer. He is known for his poetic and often cryptic lyrics as well as his unorthodox vocals. In 2006, he joined with Carey Mercer of Frog Eyes and Spencer Krug of Sunset Rubdown and Wolf Parade as part of indie supergroup