- David Byrne
David Byrne (born May 14, 1952 in Dumbarton, Scotland) is a Grammy Award, Academy Award and Golden Globe winning musician best known as a founding member and the principal songwriter of the New Wave band Talking Heads. He lives in New York City. - Brian Eno
Brian Eno (born Brian Peter George Eno on 15 May 1948 in Woodbridge, Suffolk) is an English electronic musician, music theorist and record producer. As a solo artist, he is probably best known as the father of modern ambient music, though he is also a highly celebrated record producer. With an art school background and inspiration from minimalism, … - Tina Weymouth
Tina Weymouth is a founding member of the influential New Wave group Talking Heads. She is of French heritage on her mother's side. A bassist, she combined the minimalist art-punk basslines of groups such as Wire and Pere Ubu with danceable, disco inflected riffs to provide the bedrock of Talking Heads signature sound. Her sound is often very funky in feel, combining low fundamental notes with higher flourishes in clipped, staccato rhythms. - Adrian Belew
Adrian Belew (born 'Robert Steven Belew', December 23, 1949, in Covington, Kentucky) is an American guitarist and vocalist (and sometimes drummer, pianist and bass player), perhaps best known for his work as a member of the progressive rock group King Crimson, which he first joined in 1981. He has also released a number of solo albums for Island Records and Atlantic Records, and has worked with many other musicians. - Jerry Harrison
Jerry Harrison (born Jeremiah Griffin Harrison, 21 February 1949, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin) was the keyboardist and guitarist for the influential New Wave group, Talking Heads. He was also an original member of The Modern Lovers. - Chris Frantz
Chris Frantz (born Charlton Christopher Frantz, May 8, 1951 in Fort Campbell, Kentucky, United States) was the drummer for both the Talking Heads and the Tom Tom Club. - Bernie Worrell
Bernie Worrell (born April 19, 1944) is an American keyboardist and composer best known for his work with Parliament-Funkadelic. - Kate Pierson
Katherine Elizabeth "Kate" Pierson (born 27 April 1948 in Weehawken, New Jersey) is an American vocalist and one of the lead singers and founding members of The B-52's. She also plays keyboard and guitar for the band. In The B-52's she sings alongside Cindy Wilson and Fred Schneider. She is openly lesbian. - Susana Baca
Susana Baca de la Colina is a prominent Peruvian singer of Afro-Peruvian descent. She has been a key figure in the revival of Afro-Peruvian music within Peru (see, for example, dancers from the Perú Negro troupe, as well as "Festejo" music), which, like the culture that produced it, had previously been little recognized, but which is now regarded as an important part of Peruvian culture. Baca has contributed much to its international popularity, … - Seymour Stein
Seymour Stein (born 1942 in Brooklyn, New York) is an entrepreneur in the music industry who has been a part of the business since getting his first job as a clerk for Billboard Magazine in 1958. - Steve Lillywhite
Steve Lillywhite (born in 1955) is a well-known Grammy Award winning English music producer. He is the former husband of the late singer Kirsty MacColl with whom he fathered two children, Jamie and Louis. He first entered the music industry in 1972, when he worked as a tape operator for Polygram. He produced a demo recording for the band Ultravox, which led to them being offered a recording contract with Island Records. Lillywhite soon joined Island as a staff producer, … - David Was
David Was is, with his stage-brother Don Was, the founder of the influential 1980s pop group, Was (Not Was). Reviewed by "The New York Times" in 1980 as "the funkier art-funk band" (comparing them to Talking Heads), Was (Not Was) used members of Funkadelic; alongside jazz legends like trumpeter Marcus Belgrave; and singers Mel Tormé,and Ozzy Osbourne. A graduate of the University of Michigan, Was fled his native Detroit for California, … - Snow
SNoW (pronounced: "Snow", born June 11, 1985 in Tokyo, Japan) is a J-Pop singer. She currently attends Santa Monica College in California. She has grown up in a bilingual environment. Her favorite artists include Ani DiFranco, Iggy Pop, Talking Heads, and Jack Johnson. Her debut single "Yes" was released under an indie record label in November 2004. - Chris Duarte
Chris Duarte (born February 16 1963, San Antonio, Texas, USA) is a blues-rock guitarist and vocalist. - Wally Badarou
Wally Badarou (b. 22 March 1955 in Paris) is a musician from Benin. A synthesizer specialist, Badarou is best known as the longtime associate of the British band Level 42, known for its blend of funk, pop, soul and rock. He has co-written, performed on and (later) co-produced a number of the band's tracks since its debut album in 1981. - Gary Lucas
Gary Lucas is an acclaimed American guitarist, a Grammy-nominated songwriter, and an international recording artist with over a dozen solo albums to date, and a soundtrack composer for film and television. He has been described as "one of the best and most original guitarists in America" (David Fricke, 16 Nov. 2006, "Rolling Stone"); a "legendary leftfield guitarist" ("The Guardian", 24 Dec. 2005); "the thinking man's guitar hero" (The New Yorker, 8 Jan. - Thora Hird
Dame Thora Hird DBE (28 May 1911 - 15 March 2003) was an English actress. Thora was born in the Lancashire seaside town of Morecambe. She was the mother of the actress Janette Scott, and thus formerly the mother-in-law of the singer Mel Tormé. Her first ever appearance on stage was when she was two months old in a play her father was managing. Thora Hird was mainly associated with television comedy, notably the sitcoms "Meet the Wife" (a 1960s classic), … - Lynn Redgrave
Lynn Rachel Redgrave, OBE (born 8 March, 1943 in London) is two-time Academy Award-nominated and Golden Globe-winning English actress born into the famous Redgrave acting family. Her parents were Sir Michael Redgrave and Rachel Kempson, Lady Redgrave, her brother is Corin Redgrave and her sister is Vanessa Redgrave. She is the aunt of Natasha Richardson, Joely Richardson and Jemma Redgrave. - Ed Stasium
Ed Stasium is a record producer and engineer who has worked on albums by The Ramones and Talking Heads. - Amos Poe
Amos Poe is a New York City filmmaker. He has been considered one of the first punk filmmakers and his film "The Blank Generation" (1976) co-directed with Ivan Kral, one of the earliest punk films.The film featured performances by Richard Hell, Talking Heads, Television, Patti Smith and Wayne County. He is also associated with the birth of No Wave Cinema due to films such as "The Foreigner" (1978), featuring Debbie Harry and Anya Philips, … - Nick Launay
Nick Launay is a notable English record producer and recording engineer. He has produced albums by artists including Midnight Oil, Nick Cave, Silverchair, Talking Heads, Public Image Ltd. and Blue October. He is known for his emphasis on "roomy" sounds (such as live qualities) such as on The Living End's 2006 release, "State of Emergency". He lives in Sydney, Australia - Talking Heads
Former member of the Talking Heads, which broke up in 1989. Has never taken out US citizenship although he has lived in the U.S. since he was a child. Born in Scotland, but was raised in Baltimore, Maryland, USA. Brother-in-law of the late Tina Chow, a fashion icon of the 1980s. Father, with Adelle Lutz, of daughter Malu Valentine (born in 1990). Uncle of actress China Chow. Inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2002 as a member of the Talking Heads. Translated into English,... - Talking Heads
Drummer, Talking Heads After the Talking Heads disbanded, co-founded The Heads and the Tom-Tom Club. Inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2002 (as a member of the Talking Heads). Member of the virtual hip-hop group Gorillaz. Member of the group Tom Tom Club. The group's song "Genius Of Love" reached #2 on the R&B charts in 1981. - Talking Heads
Former keyboardist & guitarist for the new wave band Talking Heads Inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2002 (as a member of the Talking Heads). - Eileen Atkins
Dame Eileen June Atkins DBE (born 16 June 1934) is an English writer and award-winning film and theatre actress. - Tony Bongiovi
Tony Bongiovi is a record producer and recording engineer. He helped to remodel an old building in Manhattan -- once a power plant for Edison, and later a television studio -- into the Power Station recording studio in 1977. Bongiovi was born in the borough of Raritan, New Jersey located in Central Jersey. He attended Bridgewater-Raritan high school. He has produced records by Talking Heads, Aerosmith (Classics Live) and Ramones (Rocket to Russia & Leave Home), … - Tibor Kalman
Tibor Kalman was an influential American graphic designer of Hungarian origin, well-known for his work as editor-in-chief of "Colors" magazine. Kalman was born in Budapest and became a U.S. resident in 1956, after he and his family fled Hungary to escape the Soviet invasion. He later attended NYU, dropping out after one year of Journalism classes. In the 1970s Kalman worked at a small New York City bookstore that eventually became Barnes & Noble. - Lynn Mabry
Lynn Mabry is an American vocalist. She got her start in Sly and the Family Stone, along with Dawn Silva. In 1977 she joined P-Funk. The following year Mabry and Silva became the original Brides Of Funkenstein, releasing their first album "Funk Or Walk". Lynn became pregnant and left the band in 1979. Silva continued The Brides with back-up singers Sheila Horne and Jeanette McGruder for another year. In 1983 Mabry joined Talking Heads for "Stop Making Sense". - Lenny Pickett
Lenny Pickett (b. Las Cruces, New Mexico, 1954) is an American tenor saxophonist, composer, arranger, music director, and teacher. He was a member of the Tower of Power Horns from 1972 until 1981, and since 1985 has been the tenor saxophone soloist with the "Saturday Night Live" band. He has served as the "Saturday Night Live" band's musical director since 1995. - Steven Stanley
Steven Stanley is a Jamaican audio-engineer who has since the 1970s worked in reggae and rock genres, most notably with Talking Heads (Remain in Light) and Black Uhuru. Stanley was an in-house mixer of the Compass Point Studios. Other notable contributions to popular music include work with Tom Tom Club, the The B-52's, and the composition of the famous beat from Mariah Carey's "Fantasy." He lives and works in Kingston Jamaica. - Rob Sonic
Rob Sonic is a hip hop artist from the The Bronx, born in Washington DC. As a child growing up, he devoted himself to many styles of music and was a keen follower of artists such as The Beatles, Run DMC, Kraftwerk, Talking Heads, Led Zeppelin, Public Enemy, Muddy Waters, Ultramagnetic MC's, The Clash among many others. In 2000, Rob gained critical acclaim as the front man of the group Sonic Sum, whose album "The Sanity Annex" won rave reviews in the U.S., … - Alex Greenwald
Alexander Greenwald October 9 1979, in Los Angeles, California) is an American musician and actor, best known as the lead singer of the Californian rock band Phantom Planet. Greenwald was born of Jewish heritage. He is a former model for clothing retailer The Gap and has also acted in the past. He played the sociopathic school bully Seth Devlin in "Donnie Darko", along with his good friend Jake Gyllenhaal. He has since expressed that he is a musician first, … - Alex Sadkin
Alex Sadkin (c. 1952-1987) is best remembered as a record producer in the early 1980s, but actually got his start as a saxophonist for the Las Olas Brass. He was first trained as a mastering engineer but eventually moved into recording studio work as a "tape-op" (Assistant Engineer) at Criteria Studios, Miami, Florida. Sadkin got his break after impressing Neil Young with his mixing ability, and he eventually became head engineer at Compass Point Studio in Nassau, Bahamas, … - Teenie Hodges
Mabon "Teenie" Hodges is a Memphis musician best known for his work as lead guitarist and songwriter on many of Al Green's popular soul hits of the 1970s. His compositions "Take Me to the River" and "Love and Happiness," both cowritten with Green, have been covered by numerous other international artists, including Al Jarreau, Amazing Rhythm Aces, Talking Heads, O.V. Wright, David Sanborn, Toots & the Maytals, Canned Heat, Foghat, Levon Helm, Syl Johnson, Annie Lennox, … - Andy Zax
Andy Zax is a former co-star of the Comedy Central game show "Beat the Geeks" on which he played the Music Geek. He is also a music historian and producer of CD box sets and reissues by Talking Heads, Echo & The Bunnymen, Television, Little Richard, Fats Domino, Judee Sill, John Cale, the Neon Philharmonic and many others. He was also a contestant on the very first episode of the FOX game show Greed on November 4th 1999. - Dieter Meier
Dieter Meier is a Swiss musician and conceptual artist who is probably best known for the electronic music group Yello he formed with music producer Boris Blank. He is a vocalist and lyricist, as well as manager and producer of this music group. - Roger Joseph Manning Jr.
Roger Joseph Manning Jr. is a keyboard player and founding member of bands Beatnik Beatch, Jellyfish, Imperial Drag, Moog Cookbook, and TV Eyes. He has also spent several years as an integral member of Beck's backing band, and made contributions to several recordings by the band Air. He is known for his distinctive style playing various analog and digital synthesizers. - Jim Blashfield
Jim Blashfield (born September 4, 1944 in Seattle, Washington) is an American filmmaker and media artist, best known for his short films such as Suspicious Circumstances and his music videos from the 1980s and 90s for Talking Heads, Joni Mitchell, Nu Shooz, Paul Simon, Peter Gabriel, Michael Jackson, Tears for Fears and Marc Cohn. More recently he has collaborated with Bill Frisell, the Oregon Symphony and Weird Al Yankovic. - Spencer Owen
Spencer William Maxwell Owen is a prolific art-pop musician living in Berkeley, CA. Owen was born 1984 in Santa Monica, CA, exactly 17 years before the September 11th attacks, and was raised by Laura and composer/pianist Sandy Owen in Los Angeles. (Sandy's most recent album, "One Late Hour with a Steinway", is one long continuous take at the piano.) As a toddler, Owen was introduced to the works of Laurie Anderson. - Stephen Heppell
Stephen Heppell is an English educator who specialises in the use of ICT in education. Heppell is best known for his work at Ultralab, part of Anglia Polytechnic University. There, he worked on education projects such as "Learning in the New Millennium", "Schools OnLine", development of "Think.com" and "Talking Heads". In 2003, Heppell left UltraLab and is now CEO of the education consultancy firm, www.Heppell.net.
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