David Byrne

David Byrne was born on 14 May 1952 in Dumbarton, Dunbartonshire, Scotland,{{cite web |url=http://dearscotland.com/2010/04/02/the-dumbarton-road-to-nowhere/ |title=The Dumbarton Road to Nowhere |last=Tam |first=Leo Nardo |quote=one of Scotland's most famous expats |access-date=21 December 2012}}{{cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/4986234/David-Byrne-stay-hungry.html |title=David Byrne: stay hungry |last=Grant |first=Richard |date=16 March 2009 |work=The Daily Telegraph |location=London |quote=born in Dumbarton, Scotland (a point of pride, like his British passport)|access-date=21 December 2012}} the elder of two children born to Tom (from Lambhill, Glasgow) and Emma Byrne. Byrne's mother was Presbyterian and his father Catholic. Two years after his birth, the family moved to Canada, settling in Hamilton, Ontario. The family left Scotland in part because there were few jobs requiring his father's engineering skills and in part because of the tensions in the extended family caused by his parents' interfaith marriage. When Byrne was eight or nine years old they moved to Arbutus, Maryland, in the United States, where his father worked as an electronics engineer at Westinghouse Electric Corporation and his mother later became a teacher.{{cite magazine| url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/qa-david-byrne-52229/| title=Q&A: David Byrne| last=Dunn| first=Jancee| magazine=Rolling Stone| date=11 August 1994| quote=I think a lot of places I lived – Glasgow; Hamilton, Ontario; and Baltimore – at the time were all industrial towns.}}{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09vz6r1|title=BBC Radio 4 – Desert Island Discs, David Byrne|website=BBC|access-date=23 November 2018}} Byrne stated that he initially grew up speaking with a Scottish accent but adopted an American one in order to fit in at school. He later recalled "I felt like a bit of an outsider. But then I realized the world was made up of people who were all different. But we're all here."{{cite web |url=https://www.carnegie.org/awards/honoree/david-byrne/ |title=2020 Great Immigrants Recipient |access-date=2022-10-12}}

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 He was rejected from his middle school's choir because they said he was "off-key and too withdrawn".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.{{cite magazine |url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0%2C9171%2C962640-8%2C00.html |title=Rock's Renaissance Man |magazine=Time |date=27 October 1986 |access-date=5 September 2017 |url-status=deviated |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080115153738/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0%2C9171%2C962640-8%2C00.html |archive-date=15 January 2008 |df=dmy-all}} His father used his electrical engineering skills to modify a reel-to-reel tape recorder so that Byrne could make multitrack recordings.

Byrne graduated from Lansdowne High School in southwest Baltimore County, Maryland. He attended the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) in Providence, Rhode Island, during the 1970–71 term and the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore during the 1971–72 term before dropping out.

He started his musical career in a high school band called Revelation. Between 1971 and 1972, he was one half of a duo named Bizadi with Marc Kehoe. Their repertoire consisted mostly of songs such as "April Showers", "96 Tears", "Dancing on the Ceiling" and Frank Sinatra songs. He returned to Providence in 1973 and formed a band called the Artistics with fellow RISD student Chris Frantz.Gittins, Ian, Talking Heads: Once in a Lifetime : the Stories Behind Every Song, Hal Leonard Corporation, 2004, p. 140 {{ISBN|0-634-08033-4}}, {{ISBN|978-0-634-08033-3}}. The band dissolved in 1974. Byrne moved to New York City in May that year, and in September of that year, Frantz and his girlfriend Tina Weymouth followed suit. After Byrne and Frantz were unable to find a bass guitar player in New York for nearly two years, Weymouth learned to play the instrument.{{Cite news |last=Courogen |first=Carrie |date=15 September 2017 |title=40 Years Later, Talking Heads' Most Valuable Member Is Still Its Most Under-Recognized |url=https://www.papermag.com/40-years-late-talking-heads-most-valuable-member-is-still-its-most-under-recognized-1-2482571556.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220715120115/https://www.papermag.com/40-years-late-talking-heads-most-valuable-member-is-still-its-most-under-recognized-1-2482571556.html |archive-date=15 July 2022 |access-date=15 July 2022 |website=Paper}} While working day jobs in late 1974, they were contemplating a band.{{Citation needed|date=January 2025}}

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By January 1975, Talking Heads were practicing and playing together, while still working normal day jobs. They played their first gig in June.{{cite web|url=http://www.bassplayer.com/article/tina-weymouth/mar-97/5958|title=Tina Talks Heads, Tom Toms, and How to Succeed at Bass Without Really Trying|last=Isola|first=Gregory|date=March 1997|work=Bass Player|access-date=15 May 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090210190543/http://bassplayer.com/article/tina-weymouth/mar-97/5958 |archive-date=10 February 2009}}[http://www.rockhall.com/inductees/talking-heads/bio Talking Heads] Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Retrieved 15 May 2013

In May 1976, Byrne quit his day job, and the three-piece band signed to Sire Records in November of that year. Byrne was the youngest member of the band. Multi-instrumentalist Jerry Harrison, previously of The Modern Lovers, joined the band in 1977. The band released eight studio albums to critical acclaim and commercial success. Four albums achieved gold status (exceeding 500,000 in sales) and two others were certified double-platinum (exceeding two million in sales). Talking Heads were pioneers of the new wave music scene in the late 1970s and early 1980s with popular and creative music videos in regular rotation on MTV.

In 1988 the band quietly went on hiatus during which Byrne launched a solo career and the other members pursued their own projects. Talking Heads reunited in 1991 to record the single "Sax and Violins" and officially split in December 1991.

In 2002, Talking Heads was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, where they reunited to play three tracks, including "Psycho Killer" and "Burning Down the House".{{cite web|url=http://rockhall.com/inductees/ceremonies/2002/|title=2002 Induction Ceremony|work=Rock & Roll Hall of Fame |publisher=The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum|access-date=15 May 2013}}

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During his time in the band, David Byrne took on outside projects, collaborating with Brian Eno during 1979 and 1981 on the album My Life in the Bush of Ghosts, which attracted acclaim for its early use of sampling and found sounds. Following this record, Byrne focused his attention on Talking Heads. My Life in the Bush of Ghosts was re-released for its 25th anniversary in early 2006, with new bonus tracks. In keeping with the spirit of the original album, stems for two of the songs' component tracks were released under Creative Commons licenses and a remix contest website was launched.

Rei Momo (1989) was the first solo album by Byrne after leaving Talking Heads, and features mainly Afro-Cuban, Afro-Hispanic, and Brazilian song styles, including popular dances such as merengue, son cubano, samba, mambo, cumbia, cha-cha-chá, bomba and charanga. His third solo album, Uh-Oh (1992), featured a brass section and was driven by tracks such as "Girls on My Mind" and "The Cowboy Mambo (Hey Lookit Me Now)". His fourth solo album, David Byrne (1994), was a more proper rock record, with Byrne playing most of the instruments, leaving percussion for session musicians. "Angels" and "Back in the Box" were the two main singles released from the album. The first one entered the US Modern Rock Tracks chart, reaching No. 24. For his fifth studio effort, the emotional Feelings (1997), Byrne employed a brass orchestra called Black Cat Orchestra. His sixth, Look into the Eyeball (2001), continued the same musical exploration of Feelings, but was compiled of more upbeat tracks, like those found on Uh-Oh.

Grown Backwards (2004), released by Nonesuch Records, used orchestral string arrangements, and includes two operatic arias as well as a rework of X-Press 2 collaboration "Lazy". He also launched a North American and Australian tour with the Tosca Strings. This tour ended with Los Angeles, San Diego and New York shows in August 2005. He also collaborated with Selena on her 1995 album Dreaming of You with "God's Child (Baila Conmigo)".{{cite web|url=https://www.discogs.com/composition/7ab34001-d0f7-416f-9914-17a9f4e16f6a-Gods-Child-Baila-Conmigo|title=God's Child (Baila Conmigo)|website=Discogs|language=en|access-date=2019-01-22}}

Byrne and Eno reunited for his eighth album Everything That Happens Will Happen Today (2008).{{cite web |url=http://www.everythingthathappens.com/tour.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080822132005/http://www.everythingthathappens.com/tour.html |archive-date=22 August 2008 |title=Tour Dates for David Byrne – Songs of David Byrne and Brian Eno |publisher=David Byrne |date=4 August 2008 |access-date=11 January 2010 }} He assembled a band to tour worldwide for the album for a six-month period from late 2008 through early 2009 on the Songs of David Byrne and Brian Eno Tour.{{cite web |title=DavidByrne.com – Tours |url=http://www.davidbyrne.com/tours/index.php |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090316041327/http://www.davidbyrne.com/tours/index.php |url-status=dead |archive-date=16 March 2009 |date=16 March 2009}}

In 2012, he released a collaborative album with American singer-songwriter St. Vincent called Love This Giant. The album featured both Byrne and St. Vincent on vocals and guitar, backed by a brass section. To promote the album, both artists travelled throughout North America, Europe, and Australia on the Love This Giant Tour in 2012 and 2013, with each performing pieces from their career in the album's distinctive brass band style alongside those composed for the album.{{Cite news|date=2012-08-23|title=Exclusive: Byrne & Clark Go Indie|language=en|work=The Daily Beast|url=https://www.thedailybeast.com/videos/2012/08/23/david-byrne-goes-indie|access-date=2022-02-15}}

In January 2018, Byrne announced his first solo album in 14 years. American Utopia was released in March through Todo Mundo and Nonesuch Records. He also released the album's first single, "Everybody's Coming to My House", which he co-wrote with Eno.{{cite web |url=http://www.nonesuch.com/journal/david-byrne-american-utopia-due-march-9-nonesuch-records-announced-2017-01-08 |title= David Byrne's New Album, American Utopia, Due March 9 on Todomundo / Nonesuch Records |publisher=Nonesuch Records |date=8 January 2018}} The subsequent tour – which showcased songs from American Utopia alongside highlights from his Talking Heads and solo career to date – was described by NME as being perhaps "the most ambitious and impressive live show of all time", blurring the lines "between gig and theatre, poetry and dance".{{cite web |url=https://www.nme.com/reviews/live/david-byrnes-american-utopia-tour-might-ambitious-impressive-live-show-time |title= David Byrne's American Utopia tour might be the most ambitious and impressive live show of all time |publisher=NME |date=15 June 2018}}

In 1981, Byrne partnered with choreographer Twyla Tharp, scoring music he wrote that appeared on his album The Catherine Wheel for a ballet with the same name, prominently featuring unusual rhythms and lyrics. Productions of The Catherine Wheel appeared on Broadway that same year.

He was chiefly responsible for the stage design and choreography of the concert film Stop Making Sense (1984).

Byrne wrote the Dirty Dozen Brass Band-inspired score Music for "The Knee Plays", released in 1985, for Robert Wilson's vast five-act opera The Civil Wars: A Tree Is Best Measured When It Is Down.

He wrote, directed, and starred in True Stories (1986), a musical collage of discordant Americana for which he also produced most of the film's music. He was impressed by the experimental theatre that he saw in New York City in the 1970s and collaborated with several of its best-known representatives. He worked with Robert Wilson on "The Knee Plays" and "The Forest", and invited Spalding Gray (of The Wooster Group) to act in True Stories, while Meredith Monk provided a portion of the film's soundtrack.

Byrne also provided a soundtrack for JoAnne Akalaitis' film Dead End Kids (1986), made after a Mabou Mines theatre production. Byrne's artistic outlook has a great deal in common with the work of these artists.{{cite book|last1=Steenstra|first1=Sytze|title=Song and Circumstance|date=2010|publisher=Continuum Books|isbn=978-08264-4168-3|location=New York and London|pages=93–137}} The same year he also added "Loco de Amor" with Celia Cruz to Jonathan Demme's film Something Wild (1986).

His work has been extensively used in film soundtracks, most notably in collaboration with Ryuichi Sakamoto and Cong Su on Bernardo Bertolucci's The Last Emperor (1987), which won an Academy Award for Best Original Score.

Some of the music from Byrne's orchestral album The Forest was originally used in a Robert Wilson–directed theatre piece titled The Forest. The play premiered at the Theater der Freien Volksbühne, Berlin, in 1988. It received its New York premiere in December 1988 at the Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM). The Forestry Maxi-single contained dance and industrial remixes of pieces from The Forest by Jack Dangers, Rudy Tambala, and Anthony Capel. Byrne released his soundtrack album in 1991.

Byrne also directed the documentary Île Aiye (1989) and the concert film of his 1992 Latin-tinged tour titled Between the Teeth (1994).

In Spite of Wishing and Wanting is a soundscape Byrne produced in 1999 for Belgian choreographer Wim Vandekeybus's dance company Ultima Vez.

In 2003, Byrne guest starred as himself on a season 14 episode of The Simpsons. Released the same year, Lead Us Not into Temptation included tracks and musical experiments from his score to film Young Adam (2003).

In late 2005, Byrne and Fatboy Slim began work on Here Lies Love, a disco opera or song cycle about the life of Imelda Marcos, the controversial former First Lady of the Philippines. Some music from this piece was debuted at Adelaide Festival of Arts in Australia in February 2006 and the following year at Carnegie Hall on 3 February 2007.

In 2008, Byrne released Big Love: Hymnal – his soundtrack to season two of Big Love, which aired in 2007. These two albums constituted the first releases on his independent record label Todo Mundo. Byrne and Brian Eno provided the soundtrack for the film Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps (2010).{{cite web |url=http://www.film.com/movies/review-wall-street-money-never-sleeps#fbid=KdR0UiwBhKE |title=Review: Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps |first=Laremy |last=Legel |date=23 September 2010 |website=Film.com |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130726014726/http://www.film.com/movies/review-wall-street-money-never-sleeps#fbid=KdR0UiwBhKE |archive-date=26 July 2013 |df=dmy-all }}

In 2015, he organized Contemporary Color, two arena concerts in Brooklyn and Toronto, for which he brought in ten musical acts who teamed up with ten color guard groups. The concerts were made into a 2016 documentary film, directed by the Ross brothers, and produced by Byrne.{{cite web|url=http://www.contemporarycolor.com/about/|title=About|website=Contemporary Color|access-date=2 September 2018}}

He collaborated with Stanford University professor Mala Gaonkar in 2016 to co-create NEUROSOCIETY, a guided immersive theater performance.[https://arts.stanford.edu/arts-institute/the-makers-series-david-byrne/ THE MAKERS SERIES DAVID BYRNE AND MALA GAONKAR] Stanford Arts. Access February 9, 2023.

In October 2019, his American Utopia opened at the Hudson Theatre on Broadway.{{cite web|url=http://www.ibdb.com/broadway-production/american-utopia-522679/|title=broadway-production|website=ibdb|access-date=20 October 2019}}{{cite magazine |last1=Aswad |first1=Jem |title=Broadway Review: David Byrne's 'American Utopia' |url=https://variety.com/2019/music/reviews/david-byrne-american-utopia-broadway-review-1203376072/ |access-date=November 23, 2019 |magazine=Variety |date=October 20, 2019}} Byrne appeared in comedian John Mulaney's children's musical comedy special John Mulaney & the Sack Lunch Bunch (2019), where he performed the song "Pay Attention!" His song "Tiny Apocalypse" was also featured as the special's end credits song.{{cite web|url=https://ew.com/tv/2019/12/24/david-byrne-sack-lunch-bunch-cameo-john-mulaney/|title=Behind John Mulaney's 24-hour race to get David Byrne for a 'Sack Lunch Bunch' cameo|website=EW.com|language=EN|access-date=2020-03-05}}

On February 29, 2020, after a 30-year absence, Byrne performed as the musical guest on Saturday Night Live with John Mulaney as host. Byrne performed "Once in a Lifetime" and "Toe Jam" with the cast of the Broadway show American Utopia and appears in the "Airport Sushi" sketch singing a parody of "Road to Nowhere". This was Byrne's third appearance on Saturday Night Live. He previously served as the musical guest as part of Talking Heads in 1979, and as a solo musical guest in 1989.{{cite web|url=https://popculture.com/music/2020/03/01/snl-david-byrne-triumphant-return-over-30-years-saturday-night-live/|title='SNL': David Byrne Makes a Triumphant Return After Over 30 Years With Talking Heads Classic|website=Music|date=March 2020 |language=en|access-date=2020-03-05}}{{cite web|url=https://www.jambase.com/article/david-byrne-saturday-night-live-videos|title=David Byrne To Return To 'Saturday Night Live' After 31 Years|date=2020-02-06|website=JamBase|language=en-US|access-date=2020-03-05}}

In 2022, Byrne again collaborated with Mala Gaonkar on another immersive theater production based on his life,[https://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/theater-of-the-mind-invites-audiences-to-revisit-and-rethink-their-past "Theater of the Mind" Invites Audiences to Revisit—and Rethink—Their Past] The New Yorker. Access February 9, 2023. "Theater of the Mind"[https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/david-byrnes-theater-of-the-mind-180980778/ Take a Trip Through David Byrne's Mind] Smithsonian Magazine. Access February 9, 2023. transforming a 15,000 square-foot warehouse in Denver, Colorado.{{Cite web |title=Radiolab: The Theater of David Byrne's Mind on Apple Podcasts |url=https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-theater-of-david-byrnes-mind/id152249110?i=1000581927918 |access-date=2024-03-03 |website=Apple Podcasts |language=en-US}}

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Byrne has contributed songs to five AIDS benefit compilation albums produced by the Red Hot Organization: Red Hot + Blue: A Tribute to Cole Porter, Red Hot + Rio, Silencio=Muerte: Red Hot + Latin, Onda Sonora: Red Hot + Lisbon, and Offbeat: A Red Hot Soundtrip. He appeared as a guest vocalist/guitarist for 10,000 Maniacs during their MTV Unplugged concert, though the songs in which he is featured were cut from the following album. One of them, "Let the Mystery Be", appeared as the fourth track on 10,000 Maniacs' CD single "Few and Far Between".

On 24 March 1992, he performed with Richard Thompson at St. Ann & The Holy Trinity in Brooklyn Heights, New York. The concert was recorded and released as An Acoustic Evening.{{cite web|url=http://jack.mauveweb.co.uk/artists/thompson/19920324.html|archive-url=https://archive.today/20150419222152/http://jack.mauveweb.co.uk/artists/thompson/19920324.html|url-status=dead|title=Richard Thompson & David Byrne – 24 March 1992: New York|date=19 April 2015|archive-date=19 April 2015|website=Archive.today|access-date=23 November 2018}} Byrne worked with Latin superstar Selena in March 1995; writing, producing and singing a bilingual duet titled "God's Child (Baila Conmigo)". This became the last song Selena recorded before she was murdered on March 31, 1995. The song was included on the singer's posthumous album Dreaming of You.

In 1997, Byrne was the host of Sessions at West 54th during its second of three seasons and collaborated with members of Devo and Morcheeba to record the album Feelings. In 2001, a version of Byrne's single "Like Humans Do", edited to remove its marijuana reference, was selected by Microsoft as the sample music for Windows XP to demonstrate Windows Media Player.[https://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2001/aug01/08-01DavidByrnePR.mspx David Byrne to Provide Promotional Music for Windows XP: "Like Humans Do" to Give Music Fans a Taste of the Digital Music Experience in Windows XP] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070212202445/http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2001/aug01/08-01davidbyrnepr.mspx |date=12 February 2007 }}. Retrieved 11 January 2010.[https://www.forbes.com/2001/08/21/0821byrne.html You May Find Yourself On Windows XP] Forbes.com by Davide Dukcevich, 21 August 2001. Retrieved 11 January 2010.

In 2002, Byrne co-wrote and provided vocals for "Lazy" by the English house duo X-Press 2, which reached No. 2 in the United Kingdom and number one on the US Dance Chart.{{cite web |last=Smith |first=Jon |date=21 April 2002 |title=Single Review: X-Press 2, David Byrne – Lazy |url=http://drownedinsound.com/releases/5416/reviews/3648- |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201201105653/https://drownedinsound.com/releases/5416/reviews/3648- |archive-date=1 December 2020 |access-date=2 October 2019 |website=Drowned in Sound}} Byrne released an orchestral version on his 2004 album Grown Backwards.{{Cite news |last=Lynskey |first=Dorian |date=2004-03-12 |title=David Byrne, Grown Backwards |url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2004/mar/12/popandrock.shopping1 |access-date=2025-03-10 |work=The Guardian |language=en-GB |issn=0261-3077}}

In September 2004, Byrne co-authored a CD collection and performed with Gilberto Gil at a benefit concert promoting the Creative Commons license.{{cite web|url=https://creativecommons.org/2004/09/28/wiredconcertandcdastudyincollaboration/ |title=WIRED Concert and CD: A Study in Collaboration |publisher=Creative Commons |date=2004-09-28 |access-date=2020-04-18}} In 2006, his singing was featured on "The Heart's a Lonely Hunter" on The Cosmic Game by Thievery Corporation. In 2007, he provided a cover of the Fiery Furnaces' song "Ex-Guru" for a compilation to celebrate the 15th anniversary of the founding of Thrill Jockey, a Chicago-based record label.

In April 2008, Byrne took part in the Paul Simon retrospective concert series at BAM performing "You Can Call Me Al" and "I Know What I Know" from Simon's Graceland album.{{cite web|title=David Byrne joins Paul Simon on stage in New York|website=NME |url=https://www.nme.com/news/paul-simon/35824|url-status=deviated|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080622165612/http://www.nme.com/news/paul-simon/35824|archive-date=22 June 2008|access-date=14 April 2008|df=dmy-all}}, NME. Retrieved 11 January 2010. Later that year, Byrne and his production team turned the Battery Maritime Building, a 99-year-old ferry terminal in Manhattan, into a playable musical instrument.{{cite news |author=Thill, Scott |title=David Byrne Converts Building into Giant Instrument |url=http://blog.wired.com/music/2008/05/david-byrne-con.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080519033341/http://blog.wired.com/music/2008/05/david-byrne-con.html |archive-date=19 May 2008 |date=12 May 2008 |work=Wired.com |publisher=Advance Publications |access-date=11 January 2010 }} The structure was connected electronically to a pipe organ and made playable for a piece called "Playing the Building".{{cite news |author=Kennedy, Randy |title=David Byrne's New Band, With Architectural Solos |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/30/arts/music/30byrn.html |date=30 May 2008 |work=The New York Times |access-date=30 May 2008}} This project was previously installed in Stockholm in 2005,{{cite news |title=David Byrne Playing the Building |url=http://www.fargfabriken.se/en/archive/item/298-david-byrne |date=8 October 2005 |access-date=11 January 2010 |archive-date=29 July 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140729105750/http://www.fargfabriken.se/en/archive/item/298-david-byrne |url-status=dead }} and later at the London Roundhouse in 2009. Byrne says that the point of the project was to allow people to experience art first hand, by creating music with the organ, rather than simply looking at it.{{cite web |url=http://www.newsweek.com/id/138378 |first=Brian |last=Baiker |title=A Building for a Song |work=Newsweek |date=2 June 2008 |access-date=1 November 2010 |url-status=deviated |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080802041942/http://www.newsweek.com/id/138378 |archive-date=2 August 2008 |df=dmy-all }} Also in 2008, he collaborated with the Brighton Port Authority, composing the music and singing the lyrics for "Toe Jam".

Byrne is featured on the tracks "Money" and "The People Tree", on N.A.S.A.'s 2009 album The Spirit of Apollo. In 2009, he also appeared on HIV/AIDS charity album Dark Was the Night for Red Hot Organization. He collaborated with Dirty Projectors on the song "Knotty Pine". In the same year, Byrne performed at the Bonnaroo Music Festival in Manchester, Tennessee. He also was a signator of a letter protesting the decision of the Toronto International Film Festival to choose Tel Aviv as the subject of its inaugural City-to-City Spotlight strand.[https://www.theguardian.com/film/2009/sep/07/toronto-film-festival-boycott Toronto film festival hit by protest over Tel Aviv strand by Ben Walters, 7 September 2009]. Retrieved 11 January 2010.

In May 2011, Byrne contributed backing vocals to the Arcade Fire track "Speaking in Tongues" which appeared on the deluxe edition of their 2010 album The Suburbs.{{cite news| url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/musicblog/2011/may/24/arcade-fire-david-byrne-speaking-in-tongues|title=Arcade Fire feat David Byrne – Speaking in Tongues|work=The Guardian|date=24 May 2011|location=London|first=Michael|last=Cragg}}

Jherek Bischoff's 2012 album Composed features Byrne on the track "Eyes". The same year, he also released a show recorded with Caetano Veloso in 2004 at New York City's Carnegie Hall (Live at Carnegie Hall).

In March 2013, he debuted a fully staged production of his 2010 concept album Here Lies Love at New York's Public Theater, directed by Tony Award-nominee Alex Timbers following its premiere at MoCA earlier in the year. That same month, he and Sakamoto released a re-recording of their 1994 collaboration "Psychedelic Afternoon" to raise money and awareness for children impacted by the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami.{{cite web|last1=Mineo|first1=Mike|title=Ryuichi Sakamoto + David Byrne – "Psychedelic Afternoon"|url=http://www.obscuresound.com/2013/03/ryuichi-sakamoto-david-byrne-psychedelic-afternoon/|website=Obscure Sound|accessdate=1 February 2016|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160201194540/http://www.obscuresound.com/2013/03/ryuichi-sakamoto-david-byrne-psychedelic-afternoon/|archivedate=1 February 2016|date=12 March 2013}}

In May 2014, Byrne announced his involvement with Anna Calvi's EP, Strange Weather, collaborating with her on two songs: a cover of Keren Ann's "Strange Weather" and Connan Mockasin's "I'm the Man, That Will Find You".{{cite web|url=http://www.dominorecordco.us/usa/news/13-05-14/anna-calvi-announces-strange-weather-ep-listen-to-papi-pacify-cover/|work=Domino|title=Anna Calvi Announces 'Strange Weather' EP, Listen to 'Papi Pacify' Cover|date=13 May 2014|access-date=13 May 2014}}

In August 2016, he was featured on "Snoopies" on the Kickstarter-funded album, And the Anonymous Nobody... by De La Soul.{{cite web |url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/and-the-anonymous-nobody-mw0002947120 |title=And the Anonymous Nobody |first=Tim |last=Sendra |date=August 2016 |website=AllMusic |access-date=23 November 2016 }}

In 2022, he co-wrote and provided vocals on the song "This Is a Life" for the original soundtrack to the 2022 film Everything Everywhere All at Once, alongside the film's composers Son Lux and American singer Mitski.{{cite web|url=https://www.nme.com/news/music/andre-3000-mitski-and-more-to-feature-on-everything-everywhere-all-at-once-soundtrack-3168786|title=André 3000, Mitski and more to feature on 'Everything Everywhere All At Once' soundtrack|last=Krol|first=Charlotte|date=February 24, 2022|website=NME|language=en-GB|access-date=April 10, 2022|archive-date=April 10, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220410030814/https://www.nme.com/news/music/andre-3000-mitski-and-more-to-feature-on-everything-everywhere-all-at-once-soundtrack-3168786|url-status=live}} Byrne performed the song with Son Lux at the 95th Academy Awards, with Stephanie Hsu providing vocals in place of Mitski.{{cite news|url=https://deadline.com/2023/02/oscars-david-byrne-stephanie-hsu-son-lux-perform-this-is-a-life-everything-everywhere-all-at-once-ceremony-1235273011/|access-date=February 27, 2023|website=Deadline Hollywood|author=Denise Petski, Anthony D'Alessandro|title=Oscars: David Byrne, Stephanie Hsu & Son Lux To Perform "This Is A Life" During Ceremony|archive-date=March 5, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230305191929/https://deadline.com/2023/02/oscars-david-byrne-stephanie-hsu-son-lux-perform-this-is-a-life-everything-everywhere-all-at-once-ceremony-1235273011/|url-status=live}}

On July 20, 2023, the stage version of Here Lies Love made its Broadway debut.{{Cite web|url=https://deadline.com/2023/01/david-byrne-fatboy-slim-here-lies-love-broadway-1235218896/|title = David Byrne & Fatboy Slim Disco Musical 'Here Lies Love' Heading To Broadway| date=12 January 2023 }} In the leadup to the premiere, Broadway's musicians' union criticized the show for planning to use a pre-recorded soundtrack and no live musicians.{{cite news |last1=Paulson |first1=Michael |title=Broadway Musicians Object to David Byrne's 'Here Lies Love' |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/30/theater/here-lies-love-david-byrne-musicians.html |access-date=31 May 2023 |work=The New York Times |date=30 May 2023}} Local 802 of the American Federation of Musicians criticized this choice as "A direct attack on Broadway Audiences — and live music."{{cite web |last1=Gagliardi |first1=Tino |title=A direct attack on Broadway audiences — and live music |date=30 May 2023 |url=https://www.local802afm.org/allegro/articles/presidents-report-june-2023/ |access-date=31 May 2023}} Statements from the creative team claiming that the decision was inspired by karaoke and that the show "does not believe in artistic gate-keepers{{sic}}"{{Cite web|url=https://www.instagram.com/p/Cs4g4f1u5W0/|title=An update on the musical genesis of Here Lies Love.|author=Here Lies Love|work=Instagram|date=May 30, 2023|accessdate=May 31, 2023}} attracted further criticism from union members, who accused Byrne of "denigrating" and "tossing aside" live musicians and likened his remarks to union busting.{{cite web|url=https://playbill.com/article/musicians-union-responds-after-here-lies-love-characterizes-them-as-artistic-gatekeepers|title=Musicians Union Responds After Here Lies Love Characterizes Them as 'Artistic Gatekeepers'|first=Logan|last=Culwell-Block|work=Playbill|date=May 31, 2023|accessdate=May 31, 2023}} Following this, the creative team for Here Lies Love announced that the show would employ twelve live musicians, including three actor-musicians.{{cite web|url=https://playbill.com/article/broadways-here-lies-love-changes-course-is-now-hiring-live-musicians|title=Broadway's Here Lies Love Changes Course, Is Now Hiring Live Union Musicians|first=Logan|last=Culwell-Block|work=Playbill|date=June 9, 2023|accessdate=June 9, 2023}}

David Byrne co-founded the world-music record label Luaka Bop with Yale Evelev in 1990. It was originally created to release Latin American compilations, but it has grown to include music from Cuba, Africa, the Far East and beyond, releasing the work of artists such as Cornershop, Os Mutantes, Los De Abajo, Jim White, Zap Mama, Tom Zé, Los Amigos Invisibles, and King Changó.{{cite web|url=http://www.luakabop.com|title=LUAKA BOP|website=Luakabop.com|access-date=25 January 2017}}[https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1076395&ps=rs NPR audio interview 8 July 2000]. Npr.org, Retrieved 11 June 2010.

In 2005, he initiated his own internet radio station, Radio David Byrne.{{cite web |url = http://www.davidbyrne.com/radio/index.php |title = Radio David Byrne |publisher = David Byrne.com |access-date=11 January 2010 }} Each month, Byrne posts a playlist of music he likes, linked by themes or genres. Byrne's playlists have included African popular music, country music classics, vox humana, classical opera and film scores from Italian movies.

He serves on the board of directors of SoundExchange, an organization designated by the United States Congress to collect and distribute digital performance royalties for sound recordings.{{Cite web |last= |title=Board of Directors |url=https://www.soundexchange.com/about/our-team/board-of-directors/ |access-date=2022-05-19 |website=SoundExchange |language=en-US}}

In 2006, Byrne released Arboretum, a sketchbook facsimile of his Tree Drawings, published by McSweeney's. Byrne is a visual artist whose work has been shown in contemporary art galleries and museums around since the 1990s. Represented by the Pace/MacGill Gallery in New York. In 2010 his original artwork was in the exhibition The Record: Contemporary Art and Vinyl at the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University.[http://www.davidbyrne.com/art/david_byrne_artbio.php Visual art listing at Byrne's website]. Retrieved 11 June 2010.

David Byrne has also been a speaker at the TED conferences.{{Cite news|url=https://www.ted.com/speakers/david_byrne|title=David Byrne {{!}} Speaker {{!}} TED|last=Byrne|first=David|access-date=2018-11-07|language=en}} In June 2010, he spoke at the TED conference about the effects of architecture on music.{{cite web|last=Byrne|first=David|title=How architecture helped music evolve|url=https://www.ted.com/talks/david_byrne_how_architecture_helped_music_evolve|website=Ted.com|date=11 June 2010 |language=en|access-date=2018-11-07}}{{Cite news|url=https://www.nme.com/blogs/nme-blogs/ted-talks-10-music-related-lectures-that-will-enrich-your-day-9354|title=TED Talks: 10 Music-Related Lectures That Will Enrich Your Day – NME|date=2014-09-01|work=NME|access-date=2018-11-07|language=en-US}} Later in October 2010, he performed a hit from Talking Heads' 1988 album Naked titled "(Nothing But) Flowers" along with Thomas Dolby and string quartet Ethel-the TED2010 house band.{{Citation|last1=Byrne|first1=David| author3=Ethel |last2=Dolby |first2=Thomas|title="(Nothing But) Flowers" with string quartet|date=22 October 2010 |url=https://www.ted.com/talks/david_byrne_sings_nothing_but_flowers#t-4868|language=en|access-date=2018-11-07}}

Although a resident of the United States since childhood, Byrne was solely a British citizen until 2012, when he became a dual citizen of the United Kingdom and the United States.[https://web.archive.org/web/20081113152122/http://www.rollingstone.com/rockdaily/index.php/2008/11/04/david-byrne-cant-vote-but-hopes-you-will/ "David Byrne Can't Vote But Hopes You Will"]. Rolling Stone. 4 November 2008. Retrieved 11 January 2010.{{cite web|last=Lynskey|first=Dorian|date=4 March 2018|title=David Byrne: 'I'm able to talk in a social group now – not retreat into a corner'|url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2018/mar/04/david-byrne-i-am-able-to-talk-in-a-social-group-now-american-utopia|access-date=4 March 2018|work=The Guardian}} He has also held Irish citizenship since 2020.{{cite web |title=U2 X-Radio – Close to The Edge: Feat. David Byrne |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aM1GHhyDc30?si=SJsHV3HWySsg8Oy3&t=1860 |website=youtube.com |language=en |format=video |date=July 2, 2020}} Speaking of his Scottish origins in a 2014 interview with The Evening Standard, Byrne stated "I have lived in the States pretty much my whole life, but from my parents and everything, there's still an affinity to maybe a Scottish sense of humour, and some of the attitudes that go with that." During the 2014 Scottish independence referendum, Byrne expressed his preference for Scotland to remain part of the United Kingdom.{{cite web |url=https://www.nme.com/news/music/david-byrne-2-10-1237994 |title=David Byrne warns Scottish referendum voters of danger of independence |website=NME |date=28 August 2014 |access-date=2022-10-12}}

He lives in New York City. His father, Thomas, died in October 2013. His mother, Emma, died in June 2014.{{cite web|date=31 July 2014|title=Journal – EMMA BYRNE|url=http://davidbyrne.com/emma-byrne|access-date=25 January 2017|website=Davidbyrne.com}}

Byrne describes himself as on the autism spectrum, but has not been professionally diagnosed. In a 2020 interview on Amy Schumer's podcast 3 Girls, 1 Keith, he said that he felt that his condition was a superpower as it allows him to hyperfocus on his creative pursuits.{{cite web|title=Performance With David Byrne|website=Spotify |url=https://open.spotify.com/episode/3oHiChsIjNTDe0X8QNDshy|access-date=30 March 2021}} In 2012, he said that he felt that music was his way of communicating when he could not do it face to face because of his autism.{{Cite web |title=Front Row – David Byrne: 'I identify with Susan Boyle' – BBC Sounds |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p00yq6c6 |access-date=2022-05-16 |website=www.bbc.co.uk |language=en-GB}}

Byrne had a brief relationship with Toni Basil in 1981{{cite book |first=David |last=Bowman |title=This Must Be the Place: The Adventures of Talking Heads in the 20th Century |url=https://archive.org/details/thismustbeplace00davi |url-access=registration |year=2001 |publisher=HarperCollins |location=New York |isbn=978-0-380-97846-5 |page=[https://archive.org/details/thismustbeplace00davi/page/202 202] }} and he dated Twyla Tharp between 1981 and 1982. While visiting Japan in 1982,Bowman, p. 235. Byrne met costume designer Adelle Lutz, and they married in 1987.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2001/04/29/magazine/same-as-he-ever-was.html |title=Same as He Ever Was |first=Marshall |last=Sella |date=29 April 2001 |work=The New York Times |access-date=15 January 2014}} They have a daughter, Malu Abeni Valentine Byrne, born in 1989, and a grandson born in 2018.Bowman, p. 336.{{cite web|url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/david-byrne-on-american-utopia-and-living-an-optimistic-life/ |title=David Byrne on "American Utopia," and living an optimistic life |first=Anthony |last=Laudato |date=5 January 2020 |work=CBS News Sunday Morning |accessdate=23 January 2022}} Byrne and Lutz divorced in 2004.{{cite web |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/4986234/David-Byrne-stay-hungry.html |title=David Byrne: Stay Hungry |first=Richard |last=Grant |date=16 March 2009 |work=The Daily Telegraph |access-date=15 January 2014 }} After his divorce, he became romantically involved with the art curator and Gagosian Gallery sales director Louise Neri.{{cite web |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/rockandjazzmusic/3612979/How-the-Talking-Head-learnt-to-sing-from-the-heart.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220111/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/rockandjazzmusic/3612979/How-the-Talking-Head-learnt-to-sing-from-the-heart.html |archive-date=11 January 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |title=How the Talking Head Learnt To Sing from the Heart |first=Robert |last=Sandall |date=28 February 2004 |work=The Daily Telegraph |access-date=15 January 2014 }}{{cbignore}} He also had a relationship with the artist Cindy Sherman from 2007 to 2011.{{cite news|first=Simon |last=Hattenstone |url=https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2011/jan/15/cindy-sherman-interview |title=Cindy Sherman interview |newspaper=The Guardian |date= 15 January 2011|access-date=2 November 2011 |location=London}}

Byrne is known for his activism in support of increased cycling and for having used a bike as his main means of transport throughout his life, especially cycling around New York.{{cite web|url=http://www.davidbyrne.com/archive/art/books/bicycle_diaries/|title=Bicycle Diaries|work=davidbyrne.com|access-date=20 July 2016}} In Los Angeles, Byrne drives a Citroën DS, but in New York, he does not drive a car.{{cite web|url=http://blogs.kcrw.com/rhythmplanet/david-byrne-and-barry-white-what-cars-they-drove/|title=David Byrne & Barry White: What Cars They Drove|first=Tom|last=Schnabel|author-link=Tom Schnabel|date=5 November 2011|work=KCRW Rhythm Planet|access-date=20 July 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160809153034/http://blogs.kcrw.com/rhythmplanet/david-byrne-and-barry-white-what-cars-they-drove/|archive-date=9 August 2016|url-status=dead}}{{cite news|url=http://edition.cnn.com/2010/OPINION/04/01/ted.david.byrne/|title=David Byrne: Song lyrics are overrated|last=Sutter|first=John D.|date=1 April 2010|publisher=CNN|access-date=15 May 2013}}

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He says that he began cycling while he was in high school and returned to it as an adult in the late 1970s. He likes the freedom and exhilaration cycling gives him. He has written widely on cycling, including a 2009 book, Bicycle Diaries.{{cite web|url=http://bikeportland.org/2009/07/23/rockerbike-activist-david-byrne-announces-portland-event-21399|title=Rocker/bike activist David Byrne announces Portland event|last=Jonathan Maus|date=23 July 2009|work=BikePortland.org|access-date=15 May 2013}} In August 2009, Byrne auctioned his Montague folding bike to raise money for the London Cycling Campaign.

In 2008, Byrne designed a series of bicycle parking racks in the form of image outlines corresponding to the areas in which they were located, such as a dollar sign for Wall Street and an electric guitar in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Byrne worked with a manufacturer who constructed the racks in exchange for the right to sell them later as art. The racks remained on the streets for about a year.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/09/arts/design/09bike.html |first=Ariel |last=Kaminer |title=David Byrne, Cultural Omnivore, Raises Cycling Rack to an Art Form |work=The New York Times |date=8 August 2008}}

Two bike racks constructed from the Byrne Bike Rack Alphabet, a system of modular letter segments that can be combined to form various words, remain installed at the Brooklyn Academy of Music.{{cite web |title=David Byrne Bike Racks |url=https://www.bam.org/visit/david-byrne-bike-racks |website=bam.org |publisher=Brooklyn Academy of Music |access-date=25 October 2019}}

He came to the 2023 Met Gala on a Budnitz single speed bike.{{Cite web |date=2023-05-02 |title=David Byrne Rode His Bike to the Met Gala, Of Course |url=https://www.bicycling.com/news/a43769384/david-byrne-met-gala/ |access-date=2023-05-13 |website=Bicycling |language=en-US}}

{{further|Talking Heads|Talking Heads discography}}

• Talking Heads: 77 (1977)
• More Songs About Buildings and Food (1978)
• Fear of Music (1979)
• Remain in Light (1980)
• Speaking in Tongues (1983)
• Little Creatures (1985)
• True Stories (1986)
• Naked (1988)

{{Main|David Byrne discography}}

• My Life in the Bush of Ghosts (1981) (with Brian Eno)
• Rei Momo (1989)
• Uh-Oh (1992)
• David Byrne (1994)
• Feelings (1997)
• Look into the Eyeball (2001)
• Grown Backwards (2004)
• Everything That Happens Will Happen Today (2008) (with Brian Eno)
• Love This Giant (2012) (with St. Vincent)
• American Utopia (2018)

• "—" denotes albums that were released but did not chart, albums not released in a particular territory, or chart information is not available.

Concert films

Other film and television

{{main|List of awards and nominations received by David Byrne}}

Sources:{{cite web|url=http://www.davidbyrne.com/art/david_byrne_artbio.php |title=Byrne's bibliography on Byrne's Website |website=Davidbyrne.com |access-date=25 June 2010}}

• True Stories (1986)
• Preface for [https://aperture.org/shop/occupied-territory-2997/ Occupied Territory] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191026161215/https://aperture.org/shop/occupied-territory-2997/ |date=26 October 2019 }} by Lynne Cohen, Aperture Foundation (1987)
• Strange Ritual, Chronicle Books (1995)
• Your Action World (1999)
• The New Sins (Los Nuevos Pecados) (2001)
• David Byrne Asks You: What Is It? Smart Art Press (2002)
• Envisioning Emotional Epistemological Information with DVD (2003)
• Arboretum (2006)
• Bicycle Diaries (2009)
• How Music Works (2012)
• American Utopia (2020){{Cite web |date=December 10, 2020 |title=American Utopia: David Byrne: Bloomsbury Publishing |url=https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/american-utopia-9781635576689/ |access-date=November 19, 2024 |website=Bloomsbury}}
• A History of the World (in Dingbats): Drawings & Words (2022)

{{Reflist}}

• {{Citation |author1=Gittins, Ian |year=2004 |title=Talking Heads Once in a Lifetime: The Stories Behind Every Song |publisher=Carlton |isbn=978-1-84442-671-3 |ref=none}}
• {{Citation |author1=Howell, John |author2=Byrne, David |year=1992 |title=David Byrne |publisher=Thunder's Mouth Press |isbn=978-1-56025-031-9 |ref=none}}
• {{Citation |author1=Steenstra, Sytze |year=2010 |title=Song and Circumstance: The Work of David Byrne from Talking Heads to the Present |publisher=Continuum |isbn=978-0-8264-4168-3 |ref=none}}

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• [https://www.npr.org/2023/11/01/1209679558/david-byrne-talking-heads-stop-making-sense David Byrne interview] on Fresh Air, 1 November 2023

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