BIOGRAPHY
David Howell Evans was born on August 8, 1961 in Barking, East London. Evans was born to Welsh parents Garvin and Gwenda Evans. When he was a year old, his family moved to Malahide in County Dublin where Evans attended St. Andrew's National School. Evans received piano and guitar lessons and often performed with his brother Dik Evans before they both answered an advertisement posted by Larry Mullen, Jr. at their school, Mount Temple Comprehensive School, seeking musicians to form a band. This band would go through several incarnations before emerging as U2 in March 1978 (Dik Evans left the band just before the name change).
In 1982, The Edge came very close to leaving U2 for religious reasons, but he was persuaded to stay. Shortly afterwards, he wrote a piece of music that was to become "Sunday Bloody Sunday". In October 1997, The Edge had a fourth daughter, Sian Beatrice Echo, with Morleigh Steinberg, a dancer and choreographer from U2's 1990s Zoo TV Tour. It should be noted that contrary to popular belief, Morleigh is not the bellydancer from U2's video "Mysterious Ways". Their son, Levi, was born in September 1999. The couple married on 22 June 2002.
The Edge's hair started thinning in his early twenties, and as a result, he has worn hats or caps on stage, in photo shoots, and on album covers since The Joshua Tree album and tour. From the period of The Joshua Tree up until Achtung Baby and early Zoo TV, he had very long hair. He now wears a wool cap at all times in public, and even wore one at his wedding to Steinberg in 2002. He has since made very few public appearances without a hat or cap, such as during the 1995 "Pavarotti and Friends" concert where he performed "Miss Sarajevo" and "One" with Bono. This cap has become part of his distinctive "look", as has wearing shirts with numbers on them during the Elevation Tour concerts. During the Pop era, however, The Edge was known for his cowboy hat and handlebar mustache.
The Edge's humanitarian work has been currently focused on the charity Music Rising. They give musical instruments to musicians who lost theirs in Hurricane Katrina. The Edge first acquired his now legendary Electro Harmonix Memory Man Deluxe upon the suggestion of Bono. Bono allegedly asked him "Have you heard the start of Pink Floyd's Animals? (It is likely the song Bono was referring to was "Pigs (Three Different Ones)" as it is the first use of delay on the album. It is possible that he was talking about "Sheep", however) , you've got to get one of those echo units". The Edge now says that he usually set the tempo of the unit extremely high as he didn't have a clue how to use it.
Although The Edge is the band's lead guitarist, he has played the bass guitar on at least one occasion. For the song "40" The Edge and bassist Adam Clayton switch instruments on both the album and live versions with the exceptions of the performances of the song during the Popmart Tour where Edge played it with his guitar. In 2003, Rolling Stone magazine named The Edge #24 on their list of "The 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time".
David Howell Evans was born on August 8, 1961 in Barking, East London. Evans was born to Welsh parents Garvin and Gwenda Evans. When he was a year old, his family moved to Malahide in County Dublin where Evans attended St. Andrew's National School. Evans received piano and guitar lessons and often performed with his brother Dik Evans before they both answered an advertisement posted by Larry Mullen, Jr. at their school, Mount Temple Comprehensive School, seeking musicians to form a band. This band would go through several incarnations before emerging as U2 in March 1978 (Dik Evans left the band just before the name change).
In 1982, The Edge came very close to leaving U2 for religious reasons, but he was persuaded to stay. Shortly afterwards, he wrote a piece of music that was to become "Sunday Bloody Sunday". In October 1997, The Edge had a fourth daughter, Sian Beatrice Echo, with Morleigh Steinberg, a dancer and choreographer from U2's 1990s Zoo TV Tour. It should be noted that contrary to popular belief, Morleigh is not the bellydancer from U2's video "Mysterious Ways". Their son, Levi, was born in September 1999. The couple married on 22 June 2002.
The Edge's hair started thinning in his early twenties, and as a result, he has worn hats or caps on stage, in photo shoots, and on album covers since The Joshua Tree album and tour. From the period of The Joshua Tree up until Achtung Baby and early Zoo TV, he had very long hair. He now wears a wool cap at all times in public, and even wore one at his wedding to Steinberg in 2002. He has since made very few public appearances without a hat or cap, such as during the 1995 "Pavarotti and Friends" concert where he performed "Miss Sarajevo" and "One" with Bono. This cap has become part of his distinctive "look", as has wearing shirts with numbers on them during the Elevation Tour concerts. During the Pop era, however, The Edge was known for his cowboy hat and handlebar mustache.
The Edge's humanitarian work has been currently focused on the charity Music Rising. They give musical instruments to musicians who lost theirs in Hurricane Katrina. The Edge first acquired his now legendary Electro Harmonix Memory Man Deluxe upon the suggestion of Bono. Bono allegedly asked him "Have you heard the start of Pink Floyd's Animals? (It is likely the song Bono was referring to was "Pigs (Three Different Ones)" as it is the first use of delay on the album. It is possible that he was talking about "Sheep", however) , you've got to get one of those echo units". The Edge now says that he usually set the tempo of the unit extremely high as he didn't have a clue how to use it.
Although The Edge is the band's lead guitarist, he has played the bass guitar on at least one occasion. For the song "40" The Edge and bassist Adam Clayton switch instruments on both the album and live versions with the exceptions of the performances of the song during the Popmart Tour where Edge played it with his guitar. In 2003, Rolling Stone magazine named The Edge #24 on their list of "The 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time".
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