Biografía

9 de enero de 1950 · Staten Island, Nueva York, Nueva York, Estados Unidos

28 de febrero de 2025 · Staten Island, Nueva York, Nueva York, Estados Unidos (complications from Stage 4 cancer, a brain tumor and a broken back)

David Roger Johansen

1.83 m

Sunglasses

High-pitched, raw vocals

Flamboyant stage manner

Outrageous sense of fashion on and off the stage.

Singing under the name Buster Poindexter, he had a big hit with the song "Hot, Hot, Hot."

Former member of the early 70s glam rock group; New York Dolls.

Was considered for the role of Max Cady in Cabo de miedo (1991).

He is of Norwegian (father) and Irish (mother) descent.

Not related to Mike Johansen.

Every singer who's worth his salt is an actor. You play different characters in different songs. Sometimes you're a romantic lead, sometimes you're this madcap party barbarian. You play all these roles, running through every aspect of emotion.

[about his famous appearance on The Old Grey Whistle Test (1971)] The BBC had a bar. What a great country! Over here, there's never a bar in a TV station. Before we went on air, I'd told Bob [Bob Harris] that he had chipmunk teeth. He said you had to blame his parents for that. I replied, "Everyone is responsible for their own face." He was probably still thinking about that when he called us "mock rock".