Fred Durst | OohYeah

Controversial musician Fred Durst came to fame in the mid-1990s as the front man for the "nu metal" band Limp Bizkit. Singer and film director Fred Durst was born in Gastonia, North Carolina, in 1970. Raised in Jacksonville, Florida, Durst became immersed in the hip-hop and punk rock scenes of his adopted city as a teenager. While working as a tattoo artist, he formed the band Limp Bizkit in 1994. Driven by Durst's angry lyrics and showmanship, Limp Bizkit became one of the most popular bands of the 1990s and early 2000s.William Frederick Durst was born August 20, 1970, in Gastonia, North Carolina. The early part of his childhood was shaped by his family's lack of money. For the first couple of years of his life, Durst was raised entirely his mother, Anita. When he was 2, his mother remarried, and Durst moved with his mom and her new husband to Jacksonville, Florida.As a young teenager, Durst became drawn to the world of hip-hop. He fell in love with break dancing and gravitated toward the poetry and cleverness of rap. But the anger and edginess of Durst's own personality also made him a fan of hardcore punk, a musical genre that would prove to have the greatest impact on the future musician's career.