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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. He was raised in Baltimore, Maryland, and attended the Rhode Island School of Design for one year before dropping out and forming Talking Heads in 1974. His collaboration with Brian Eno in 1981 on the ground-breaking album My Life in the Bush of GhostsMy Life in the Bush of Ghosts is an 1981 album by Brian Eno and David Byrne. It is also the title of a novel by African writer Amos Tutuola published in 1954. Brian Eno albums David Byrne albums. attracted considerable critical acclaim, and represented a significant step forward in the evolution of samplingIn music, sampling is the act of taking a portion of one sound recording and reusing it as an instrument or element of a new recording. This is typically done with a sampler, which can be a piece of hardware or a computer program on a digital computer. as a legitimate musical endeavour.
His work has been extensively used in movie soundtracks, most notably in collaboration with Cong Su on Bernardo BertolucciBernardo Bertolucci (born March 16, 1940) is a writer and film director. Life and work Born in Parma, Italy the first son of a reputed historian, Bertolucci started writing at the age of 15 and soon after received several prestigious literary prizes inclu's The Last EmperorThe Last Emperor is a 1987 biographical film which tells the life story of Ai-xin-jue-luo Pu-yi, also known as Henry Pu Yi, the last Emperor of China. It stars John Lone, Joan Chen, Peter O'Toole, Ruocheng Ying, Victor Wong, Dennis Dun, Ryuichi Sakamoto,, which won an Oscar for Best Original Score. Byrne also directed True StoriesTrue Stories is the title of an American musical motion picture released in 1986. The film starred, and was directed by, David Byrne. Inspired by tabloid journalism, the film features Byrne as an unnamed, cowboy hat-wearing stranger who visits a small cit, a collage of quirky Americana, as well as the films Īle Aiye and Between the Teeth
Byrne founded Luaka BopLuaka Bop is the world music label established by David Byrne, former guitarist and songwriter for the punk rock/ new wave band Talking Heads. The label was started in the late 1980s; in addition to Byrne's solo records, the label puts out albums by Los A, a world musicWorld music is a term that covers all music that is not part of mainstream popular music or classical music and has some kind of " ethnic" component. The connotation of the term is popular and folk music from the third world, European popular and folk mus record label which releases the work of artists CornershopCornershop is a British band consisting of Tjinder Singh (singer, songwriter, and dholaki player), Ben Ayres (guitar, keyboards, and tamboura), Anthony Saffery ( sitar, keyboards and harmonium), Nick Simms (drums) and Peter Bengry (percussion). Their musi, Os Mutantes, Los De Abajo , 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.
For the 2001 release of Windows XP, Byrne's song Like Humans Do [1] from the album Look Into The Eyeball was included with the Operating System, and more specifically, Windows Media Player 8.
In late 2003, David Byrne released a book/ DVD, called Envisioning Emotional Epistemological Information, of artwork composed entirely in Microsoft PowerPoint. It includes such images as one 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." [2]
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.
