King Diamond

Diamond is married to Livia Zita, a Hungarian-born singer who has made appearances as a backup vocalist on the albums The Puppet Master and Give Me Your Soul...Please, as well as during live performances. She is also his business partner, and is currently working with him to compile old footage for two planned DVD releases of King Diamond and Mercyful Fate live performances. She also helped him make remastered editions of the King Diamond albums The Spider's Lullabye, The Graveyard, Voodoo and House of God. In 2017, they became parents to a son, born in March. In a 2016 interview with Metal Hammer Diamond revealed that following his health scare he has given up smoking and started living a healthier life style, which he has credited to helping improve his singing voice. Some of Diamonds interest include Formula One and Football, growing up he played for the youth squad of Danish club called Hvidovre IF but he stopped playing once he went to college and started getting involved in music. Although he was born and raised in Denmark, Diamond relocated to Dallas / Fort Worth, Texas in the 1980s. In 2010, Diamond officially quit smoking following his triple-bypass-surgery. Diamond follows LaVeyan Satanism, which he does not see as a religion, but a philosophy by which he lived even before reading occultist Anton LaVey's The Satanic Bible. …