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| - Full Name:Rostom Sipan Bagdasarian Born:January 27, 1919 Died:January 16, 1972 Alias:David Seville
- Rostom Sipan "Ross" Bagdasarian (January 27, 1919 – January 16, 1972) was an Armenian-American pianist, singer, songwriter, actor and record producer. He was better known by the stage name David Seville, which he used on his recordings featuring Alvin and the Chipmunks.
- Bagdasarian, Sr. used $190 of the last $200 his family had to buy a state of the art recorder that switched speeds of voices. After experimenting with changes made to a piano, he recorded his own singing voice at half speed and played it back at normal speed, which would later become the vocals for The Chipmunks. Using this technique, he recorded "Witch Doctor" in 1958. Though this voice technique was created and used in "Witch Doctor," it isn't attributed to the Chipmunks until "The Chipmunk Song."
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| - Full Name:Rostom Sipan Bagdasarian Born:January 27, 1919 Died:January 16, 1972 Alias:David Seville
- Rostom Sipan "Ross" Bagdasarian (January 27, 1919 – January 16, 1972) was an Armenian-American pianist, singer, songwriter, actor and record producer. He was better known by the stage name David Seville, which he used on his recordings featuring Alvin and the Chipmunks.
- Bagdasarian, Sr. used $190 of the last $200 his family had to buy a state of the art recorder that switched speeds of voices. After experimenting with changes made to a piano, he recorded his own singing voice at half speed and played it back at normal speed, which would later become the vocals for The Chipmunks. Using this technique, he recorded "Witch Doctor" in 1958. Though this voice technique was created and used in "Witch Doctor," it isn't attributed to the Chipmunks until "The Chipmunk Song." Bagdasarian, Sr. thought of naming the group "The Chipmunks" after he had recorded "The Chipmunk Song." One day when driving his car, a chipmunk jumped in front of his car, "Daring him to drive past" as his son Ross Bagdasarian, Jr. said in an interview. He thought of the audacity of the animal and that became the basis of Alvin. Alvin, Simon, and Theodore's names would came from his . Since his true name couldn't fit on a 45, Bagdasarian, Sr. took on the stage name of David Seville, which came from his love of a city called Seville in Spain. He voiced all three chipmunks as well as Dave in The Alvin Show and the music associated with the series.
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