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 Smith (singer) original, "Dan Smith Piano" was stolen in 2010. Smith's parents are South African. https://bestlaidplansrecords.com/about/ Dan Smith (singer) Daniel Campbell Smith (born 14 July 1986) is a British singer, songwriter and record producer. He is the lead singer, primary songwriter and founder of the British rock band Bastille. The band formed in 2010 and gained mass popularity in 2013 when the song "Pompeii" was released. The band released their second album, "Wild World" in September 2016. Smith was educated at the University of Leeds in Leeds, West Yorkshire, where he gained a degree in English Language and Literature while also writing