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Background information

<tr><td>Born</td><td colspan="2">May 14, 1952</td></tr><tr><td>Origin</td><td colspan="2">Dumbarton, Scotland</td></tr><tr><td>Genre(s)</td><td colspan="2">Experimental music
Worldbeat
New Wave
Alternative rock</td></tr><tr><td>Occupation(s)</td><td colspan="2">Musician, Artist, Singer, Actor, Director, Producer</td></tr><tr><td>Instrument(s)</td><td colspan="2">Bass, Keyboards, Guitar, Synthesizer, Flute,Clavinet, Slide Guitar, Autoharp, Harmonium</td></tr><tr><td>Years active</td><td colspan="2">1977 to Present</td></tr><tr><td style="padding-right: 1em;">Label(s)</td><td colspan="2">Luaka Bop</td></tr><tr><td textalign="top" style="padding-right: 1em;">Associated
acts</td><td colspan="2">Talking Heads
Brian Eno</td></tr><tr><td>Website</td><td colspan="2">Official Website</td></tr>


David Byrne (born May 14, 1952 in Dumbarton, Scotland) is a musician best known as a founding member and the principal songwriter of the New Wave band Talking Heads.

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[edit] Early years

Byrne was born in Dumbarton, Scotland on May 14, 1952. Two years later, his parents moved to Hamilton, Ontario, then Arbutus, Maryland when he was 8 or 9 years old. He attended the Rhode Island School of Design for one year before dropping out and forming Talking Heads in 1974 with fellow RISD students Chris Frantz and Tina Weymouth, later joined by Jerry Harrison. He later attended the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore, Maryland for one year.

During his time in the band, Byrne took on outside projects.

He collaborated with Brian Eno in 1981 on the ground-breaking album My Life in the Bush of Ghosts, which attracted considerable critical acclaim and represented a significant step forward in the evolution of sampling as a legitimate musical endeavour.

David Byrne has a daughter named Malu Abeni Valentine Byrne.

[edit] Varied work

In 1981, Byrne partnered with choreographer Twyla Tharp, scoring "The Catherine Wheel," a ballet prominently featuring unusual rhythms and lyrics. Productions of "The Catherine Wheel" appeared on Broadway that same year. In Spite of Wishing and Wanting is a soundscape David Byrne produced for the Belgian dance company Ultima Vez.

His work has been extensively used in movie soundtracks, most notably in collaboration with Ryuichi Sakamoto and Cong Su on Bernardo Bertolucci's The Last Emperor, which won an Oscar for Best Original Score. In 2004, Lead us not Into Temptation included tracks and musical experiments from his score to Young Adam. Byrne also directed and starred in True Stories, a musical collage of quirky Americana released in 1986, as well as directing the arty documentary Île Aiye and the concert film of his 1992 Latin-tinged tour titled Between the Teeth. He was chiefly responsible for the stage design and choreography captured in 1984's Stop Making Sense.

Byrne wrote the Dirty Dozen Brass Band-inspired score for Robert Wilson's Opera The Knee Plays from The CIVIL warS. Some of the music from Byrne's orchestral album The Forest was originally used in a Wilson directed theatre piece with the same name. The Forest premiered at the Theater der Freien Volksbuhne, Berlin in 1988. The Forestry Maxi-single contained dance and industrial remixes of pieces from The Forest by Jack Dangers, Rudy Tambala, and Anthony Capel.

Byrne also appeared as a guest vocalist/guitarist for 10,000 Maniacs on their MTV Unplugged album.

Byrne founded Luaka Bop, a world music record label which releases the work of artists Cornershop, Os Mutantes, Los De Abajo, Jim White, Zap Mama, Tom Zé and others.


Byrne is also a successful photographer, having shown his work in contemporary art galleries and museums around the world since the 1990s. His images are sometimes exhibited as part of sound installations. He is represented by Pace/MacGill Gallery, NYC.

[edit] Present

In 2002, he provided vocals for a track, "Lazy" by X-Press 2, which reached number 2 in the United Kingdom and number 1 on the US Dance Charts.

In the 309th episode of The Simpsons, "Dude, Where's My Ranch?", first-aired April 27, 2003, Byrne makes an appearance as a researcher of indigenous folk music of Springfield who co-sings and produces Homer Simpson's hate-song of Ned Flanders, and at the end of the episode also produces The Moe Szyslak Connection. In the episode, Byrne also claims to be a former wrestler, called "El Diablo."

In late 2003, David Byrne released a book with a companion DVD called Envisioning Emotional Epistemological Information (ISBN 3882439076). The work included artwork composed entirely in Microsoft PowerPoint. It includes one image that depicts, according to Byrne, "Dan Rather's profile. Expanded to the nth degree. Taken to infinity. Overlayed on the back of Patrick Stewart's head." [1]

On March 16, 2004, Byrne released his latest solo album, titled Grown Backwards, on Nonesuch. This album is most noticeable for its use of orchestral string arrangements, and even includes two operatic arias. He also launched a North American and Australian tour with the Tosca Strings. This tour ended with Los Angeles, San Diego and New York shows in August 2005. It was considered by many fans to offer some of the live music highlights of his career.

On February 21, 2005, the album The Cosmic Game by Thievery Corporation was released, featuring the track "The Heart's a Lonely Hunter" sung by David Byrne.

In late 2005, Byrne, with Fatboy Slim, began work scoring a disco opera focused on the life of controversial former First Lady of the Philippines, Imelda Marcos, entitled Here Lies Love.

In early 2006, the My Life in The Bush Of Ghosts album (a collaboration with Brian Eno) was re-released with new bonus tracks.

In the fall of 2006, Byrne released "Arboretum", a sketchbook facsimile of his Tree Drawings, published by McSweeney's. He also had an exhibition of his chairs — drawings, photographs, sculptures, and embroideries — at Pace/MacGill Gallery, NYC.

[edit] Religion

David Byrne is a member of the Church of the SubGenius [citation needed]. The church is a part of his movie True Stories, which he directed and co-wrote.

[edit] Discography

[edit] Studio albums

[edit] Collaborations and soundtracks

[edit] Singles

  • 1981 Three Big Songs (Big Blue Plymouth; Big Business; My Big Hands)
  • 1989 Make Believe Mambo
  • 1989 Dirty Old Town
  • 1990 Don't Fence Me In
  • 1992 She's Mad
  • 1992 Girls On My Mind
  • 1992 Hanging Upside Down
  • 1994 Angels
  • 1994 Back in the Box
  • 1996 Waters of March (With Marisa Monte)
  • 1997 Miss America
  • 1998 Fuzzy Freaky (Mark Walk & Ruby Mix)
  • 1999 Dreamworld (With Caetano Veloso)
  • 2001 Like Humans Do
  • 2001 U.B. Jesus
  • 2001 Desconocido Soy (With NRU from Café Tacuba)
  • 2002 Lazy (With X-Press 2)
  • 2002 Glass, Concrete & Stone
  • 2004 The Other Side of This Life

[edit] Contributions

[edit] External links

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[edit] Books

Talking Heads
David Byrne – Chris Frantz – Tina Weymouth – Jerry Harrison
Discography
Studio Albums: Talking Heads: 77 (1977) - More Songs about Buildings and Food (1978) - Fear of Music (1979) - Remain in Light (1980) - Speaking in Tongues (1983) - Little Creatures (1985) - True Stories (1986) - Naked (1988)
Live Albums: The Name of This Band Is Talking Heads (1982) - Stop Making Sense (1984)
Filmography
Stop Making Sense (1984) - True Stories (1986) - Storytelling Giant (1988)

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