Name	Isaac Slade
Height
Naionality	American
Date of Birth	26-May-1981
Place of Birth	Boulder, Colorado, U.S.
Famous for	Singing

Isaac Slade is an American musician and the lead vocalist, main songwriter, pianist, and co-founder of Denver-based piano rock band The Fray. Slade was born in Denver, Colorado and raised in the Denver area with his family, which included both parents—who were missionaries from the same family—and two younger brothers, Caleb and Micah. He also lived for a time in Guatemala due to his parents' profession. The Slade families are of Slovakian descent.

He attended Faith Christian Academy in Arvada, Colorado and later attended the University of Colorado Denver as a Music and Entertainment Industries Studies major he received a Bachelor of Music. Slade started singing when he was eight years old, and began playing the piano at eleven, after temporarily losing his voice. He wrote his first song when he was sixteen, and learned to play guitar when he was in high school. Slade joined Ember, a band which consisted of Slade and his future The Fray band-mates Dave Welsh and Ben Wysocki. The band soon dissolved, and later, in the spring of 2002, Slade ran into former school-mate and vocalist/guitarist Joe King in a record store. The two began regular jam sessions, which led to writing songs. They later added Slade's younger brother, Caleb, on bass and Zach Johnson on drums. Johnson soon left to attend an art school in New York, while Caleb was fired. This caused a rift in Slade's relationship with his brother. Dave Welsh and Ben Wysocki re-joined Slade and King, to form The Fray. In the same year, the newly-formed band released Movement EP, and in 2003, they released Reason EP to some local critical acclaim, particularly by Denver's Westword alternative newsweekly.

Despite these reviews, the band struggled to launch a single. Denver radio station KTCL rejected eight of their songs before the band decided to submit "Cable Car". The song found airplay on a KTCL radio show highlighting local bands, and the radio station received a large number of requests for it soon thereafter. The band changed the name of the song to "Over My Head (Cable Car)", and by the end of 2005, it had become KTCL's most played song of the year.