David Byrne

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David Byrne (born 14 May 1952) is a Scottish-American singer, songwriter, musician, record producer, artist, writer, actor, and filmmaker. He was a founding member, principal songwriter, and lead singer and guitarist of the American new wave band Talking Heads (1975–1991).

Byrne has released solo recordings and worked with various media including film, photography, opera, fiction, and non-fiction. He has received Academy Award, Grammy, and Golden Globe awards, and has been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

• Residence: New York City
• Residence: Baltimore
• Residence: Hamilton
• Residence: Arbutus
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Personal life[edit]

David Byrne (/bɜːrn/; born 14 May 1952) is a Scottish-born American musician[2][3] who was the founding member, principal songwriter, and lead singer and guitarist of the American new wave band Talking Heads, active between 1975 and 1991. Since then, Byrne has released his own solo recordings and worked with various media including film, photography, opera, fiction and non-fiction. He has received an Oscar, Grammy, and Golden Globe awards and been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Byrne is a multi-instrumentalist and is well known for his distinctive voice.

Relationships[edit] In the 1970s, Byrne had relationships with Andrea Kovacs and Mary Clarke who had attended the Rhode Island School of Design. He also had a relationship with photographer Lynn Goldsmith in 1980.[citation needed] He had a brief affair with Toni Basil in 1981[27] and he dated Twyla Tharp between 1981 and 1982.[27] While visiting Japan in 1982,[28] Byrne met costume designer Adelle Lutz whom he married in 1987.[29] They have a daughter, Malu Abeni Valentine Byrne, born in 1989.[30] Byrne and Lutz divorced in 2004.[31] After his divorce, he became romantically involved with art curator and Gagosian Gallery sales director Louise Neri.[32] He also had a relationship with the artist Cindy Sherman from 2007 to 2011.[33] Although a resident of the United States since childhood, Byrne is still a British citizen,[34] but applied for US citizenship in 2012.[35] He lives in New York City. His father, Thomas, died in October 2013. His mother, Emma Byrne, died on 25 June 2014.[36] Early life[edit] David Byrne was born in Dumbarton, Scotland, to parents Tom (from Lambhill, Glasgow) and Emma. He is the elder of two children. Two years after his birth, his parents moved to Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, and then to Arbutus, Maryland, in the United States, when he was 8 or 9 years old. His father worked as an electronics engineer. Before high school, 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.[4] In his journals he says, "I was a peculiar young man-borderline Asperger's, I would guess".[5][6]