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
The Dan Band The Dan Band The Dan Band is a comedy band created by actor/comedian Dan Finnerty. The band is known for its covers of originally female-performed pop songs, with added obscenities and swearing, made famous by Finnerty's appearance in the films "Old School" and "The Hangover" Finnerty has appeared in the hit movies "Old School" (singing "Total Eclipse of the Heart" and "Lady"), "The Terminal", "Starsky & Hutch", where he performed Roberta Flack's "Feel Like Makin' Love" at a bat mitzvah, and "The Hangover" (performing "Candy Shop" and "Fame") in a wedding scene reminiscent of his appearance in "Old School". In