Coury was born inJohnson City, New York, to aLebanese family.[2] At age 5, Coury started taking violin lessons. At age 6 he participated in his first public performance. Between the ages of 7 and 9 he studied at the Beirut Conservatory of Music inBeirut, Lebanon. At age 10, he added the trumpet to his repertoire. Finally, at age 12 he started to play the drums. By the age of 13, he was playing local bars with the band Sunjammer. As a teen, Coury was accepted to Berklee School of Music in Boston, for violin.
Coury has played in other bands includingLondon andChastain and was playing withOzzy Osbourne in 1985 filling-in forRandy Castillo who had a leg injury, before he joined Cinderella. Coury got into Cinderella whenEric Singer told him about the gig and encouraged him to audition. Coury sent in a cassette and because as far as everyone knew, according toCircus magazine, he was the drummer for Osbourne, that may have helped him score an audition.[3]
Coury left Cinderella in 1991 and joinedStephen Pearcy ofRatt to form the bandArcade. He also briefly substituted forGuns N' Roses drummerSteven Adler in December 1987 when health issues forced Adler off the road.[4] Coury re-joined Cinderella after Arcade folded. In the summer of 2006, Coury and Cinderella joinedPoison on a joint 20th anniversary tour. Coury also filled in forRikki Rockett during Poison's slot at the Comstock Rock Festival on July 15, 2009, due to the fact that Rockett having had baby the day before, and in 2017 he filled for Night Ranger when his friend Kelly Keagy took a brief leave from tour.
Coury spends most of his time in his Los Angeles recording studio Double Forte Music composing for television and sports. A multi-award-winning composer, Coury has scored all four seasons of NBC's hit seriesThe Night Shift, WGN America's original seriesAlmost Paradise,Coury composed and created the original musical score for the 2019 feature filmFull Count.An avid hockey fan, Coury combined his love of the sport with his musical skills to create the "Goal Song" and sonic identity for theLos Angeles Kings hockey team. In 2017, The L.A. Kings seriesBlack & White, which Coury scores, was nominated and won anEmmy Award. He also provides the sonic identity for thePortland Trail Blazers NBA team, with whom he won a second Emmy award.
In his spare time Coury enjoysstorm chasing. He is also a part-time actor and has appeared in several films such asThe Human Race orThe Junkyard Willie Movie: Lost in Transit. Coury performs mixes for his dance/electronica group called Effcee. Coury is an avidNASCAR fan and can often be seen on "pit road" alongside the crews.
