Label: Warner Bros. Records (Germany), 9362-43874-2
Style: Alternative Rock, Pop Rock
Country: Dumbarton, Scotland (May 14, 1952)
Time: 13:57
Format: Flac Tracks 16/44,1 kHz
Size: 101 Mb
David
Byrne (born May 14, 1952, Dumbarton, Dunbartonshire, Scotland) is a
Scottish-born musician and interdisciplinary artist who was best known
as the front man of the influential American art-rock group Talking
Heads. He went on to gain respect for an eclectic solo career.
As a
child, Byrne moved with his Scottish parents to Canada and then to the
United States. While attending the Rhode Island School of Design in the
mid-1970s, he cofounded Talking Heads, serving as the group’s principal
singer and guitarist. Identified with the punk and new wave movements,
the band released its debut album, Talking Heads ’77, in 1977. It was
followed by releases-including Remain in Light (1980), Speaking in
Tongues (1983), and the concert-film sound track Stop Making Sense
(1984)-that reflected Byrne’s interest in experimental pop and African
rhythms. After issuing the album Naked (1988), the group dissolved.
Even
at the peak of Talking Heads’ popularity, Byrne pursued other creative
projects. During a band hiatus in the early 1980s, he wrote the score
for choreographer Twyla Tharp’s The Catherine Wheel (1981) and
collaborated with Brian Eno on the album My Life in the Bush of Ghosts
(1981), a groundbreaking collage of rhythmic grooves and vocal samples.
Byrne subsequently wrote and directed the offbeat film True Stories
(1986), and his contributions to the score of The Last Emperor (1987)
earned him an Academy Award. Also during the 1980s he provided music for
two theatre works staged by director Robert Wilson.
(full version: britannica.com/biography/David-Byrne)
01. Miss America (Clean Radio Edit) (03:39)
02. Miss America (04:20)
03. Miss America (I Live America Mix) (05:57)
