David Humphrey

David Humphrey (born June 7, 1973) is an American voice actor and singer, best known as the original voice of Shadow the Hedgehog in the Sonic games from 2001 to 2004 before he was replaced by Jason Griffith. He also played Thomas Jefferson in 1776, and Frankie in Forever Plaid.

Career
He was cast to play Shadow in Sonic Adventure 2 in 2001, by his Forever Plaid colleague and friend Ryan Drummond who played Smudge in Forever Plaid and who was the voice of Sonic the Hedgehog at the time. He would voice Shadow for the next few years in the Sonic games such as Sonic Heroes and Sonic Battle and some of his Sonic Adventure 2 voice clips were reused in the game Sega Superstars. David also voiced the character Vlad in the September 2006 episode of the online animated video game-spoofing series Press Start: Bonus Levels entitled "Symphony of the Trite".

David is also a bass singer in a cappella sextet, known as Vybration.