Personal Info

Known For

Sound

Gender

Male

Birthday

May 13, 1952 (72 years old)

Place of Birth

Dumbarton, Dunbartonshire, Scotland, UK

David Byrne

Biography

David Byrne (/bɜːrn/; born 14 May 1952) is a Scottish-American musician, writer, visual artist, and filmmaker. He was a founding member, principal songwriter, lead singer, and guitarist of the American new wave band Talking Heads. Byrne has released solo recordings and worked with various media, including film, photography, opera, fiction, and non-fiction. He has received an Academy Award, a Grammy Award, a Special Tony Award, and a Golden Globe Award, and he is an inductee to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as part of Talking Heads. Description above from the Wikipedia article David Byrne, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Known For

Elvis Costello and Burt Bacharach: Sessions at West 54th

Fathers and Songs: Music for Father's Day

Talking Heads live at Montreux Jazz Festival

Talking Heads: The Name of this Programme is Once In A Lifetime

Café Tacvba - Un Segundo / MTV Unplugged

Michael Jackson's Journey from Motown to Off the Wall

Burning Down the House: The Story of CBGB

Well How Did We Get Here? A Brief History of Talking Heads

By the Ways, a Journey with William Eggleston

Red Hot + Blue: A Tribute to Cole Porter

La Casa del Ritmo: A Film About Los Amigos Invisibles

Wild Combination: A Portrait of Arthur Russell

Ladies & Gentlemen... 50 Years of SNL Music

BREAK IT ALL: The History of Rock in Latin America

Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World

Plymptoons: The Complete Early Works of Bill Plympton

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