The story of Josh Dun

Loreena
8 min readJan 17, 2021

Joshua William “Josh” Dun is an American musician. Best known for being the drummer for the band Twenty One Pilots. He was born in Columbus, Ohio, on June 18, 1988. His star sign is Gemini. He has two sisters named Ashley and Abigail and a brother named Jordan.

Since his childhood, he has always been terrified of talking in front of people even if it was a small group of it. However, when he is playing drums he does not feel that way, he is not as vulnerable.

He self-taught how to play drums when he was around 12 and worked at the Guitar Center for 3 years. He also worked with former Twenty One Pilots drummer Chris Salih, through whom he would eventually meet Tyler Joseph.

Josh’s first foray into the music industry was with an alternative/Christian rock band House of Heroes. He joined the band through their drummer, Colin Rigsby, who was taking a break to spend time with his family. Josh played alongside the band on tour from March to October 2010 when Rigsby returned to his role.

“I would lay in my bed every night with sticks and hit my knees trying to figure out what they were doing, like, ‘Okay, now they’re hitting the ride cymbal, and now it’s the snare and

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