Overview
David Byrne
Known For
Monk in Pieces
Visionary composer and performer Meredith Monk overcame hostile critics to...
We Want the Funk!
Stanley Nelson's syncopated voyage through the history of funk music,...
Ladies & Gentlemen... 50 Years of SNL Music
Untold stories behind the culture-defining and newsmaking musical performances, sketches...
BREAK IT ALL: The History of Rock in Latin America
Soda Stereo, Café Tacvba, Aterciopelados and others figure in this...
David Byrne's American Utopia
A filmed version of David Byrne's Broadway show, a unifying...
FeeLee. History of a Single Label
If it were necessary to describe the history of independent...
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.