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David Byrne is a singer, songwriter, musician, film director and producer, author, lecturer, photographer and visual artist. Born in Dumbarton, Scotland, he grew up in North America and was educated at art schools in Massachusetts and Rhode Island. Since leaving the Talking Heads, the band he co-founded in the 1970s, Byrne has released nine solo studio albums, most recently American Utopia (2018). For theater and dance, Byrne has written music for Twyla Tharp’s Catherine Wheel [Broadway] (1981); In Spite of Wishing and Wanting, for Wim Vandekevbus’s Belgian dance company Ultima Vez; Robert Wilson’s Civil Wars – The Knee Plays and The Forest (1988) [BAM and elsewhere]; and, Here Lies Love (2015) and Joan of Arc: Into the Fire (2017) [both at The Public Theater]. In 2005, Playing the Building, an installation that turned buildings into playable musical instruments by connecting the structures electronically to a pipe organ debuted in Stockholm, fo

David Byrne

David Byrne was born in Dumbarton, Scotland, to a Protestant mother and a Catholic father. Byrne’s parents decided to leave for Canada because of the employment opportunities, and to escape the family backlash caused by their “mixed marriage” (sectarian tensions were still very much alive in mid-20th-century Scotland). The family arrived in the United States when Byrne was eight years old, settling in Arbutus, Maryland. Byrne’s Scottish accent was incomprehensible to American kids, and he worked hard to lose it fast so he could fit in. As Byrne has recalled, “I felt like a bit of an outsider. But then I realized the world was made up of people who were all different. But we’re all here.” Growing up in a family that loved music, Byrne learned to play the guitar, the accordion, and the violin.

During his sole semester at the Rhode Island School of Design, Byrne met Tina Weymouth and Chris Frantz. They formed the New Wave band Talking Heads in 1975, and were later joined by Jerry Harrison. With Byrne as the lead singer and guitarist, Talking Heads would go on to release

David Byrne (Dumbarton, Scotland, May 14, 1952) is a founding member and principal songwriter of the American New Wave band Talking Heads, which was active between 1975 and 1991. Since then, Byrne has released his own solo recordings and worked with various media including film, photography, opera, and non-fiction. He has received Grammy, Oscar, and Golden Globe awards and been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

David Byrne was born in Dumbarton, Scotland. Two years later, his parents moved to Hamilton, Ontario, and then to Arbutus, Maryland. Before high school, David Byrne already knew how to play the guitar, accordion, and violin. He was rejected from his middle school's choir because they claimed he was "off-key and too withdrawn." From a young age, he had a strong interest in music. His parents say that he would constantly play his phonograph from age three and he learned how to play the harmonica at age five. In his journals he says, "I was a peculiar young man — borderline Asperger's, I would guess." As revealed by Tina Weymouth in t

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