Joshua William "Josh" Dun (born June 18, 1988) is an American musician. He is the drummer for the musical duo Twenty One Pilots.
Dun was born in Columbus, Ohio, to Laura, a hospice social worker, and Bill, a physical therapy assistant. He grew up with two sisters, Ashley and Abigail, and a brother, Jordan. Growing up, he was a self-taught drummer.He started with taking trumpet lessons at school, but he was "never awesome at it". The lessons only taught him how to read it rather than create his own music with it. He then turned his attention to drums and taught himself how to play them, because he believed at the time "somebody else teaching me how to play an instrument... was kind of prohibiting me from being creative". According to Dun, he would skateboard down to the local music store, where he would purchase records and imitate the beats on an electronic drum kit. His parents set strict rules on the type of music he was allowed to listen to, so instead he asked people at the store to recommend albums to him. "I'd hide albums like Green Day's Dookie under my bed," Dun says. "Sometimes they'd find them and get real mad. They'd find a Christian alternative, like Relient K, and make me listen to that." Dun worked at Guitar Center for three years, during which time former Twenty One Pilots drummer Chris Salih was his co-worker.
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