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David Byrne<\/strong> (Dumbarton, Scotland, 1952) is known for being the leader of Talking Heads <\/strong>and the founder of record label Luaka Bop. Byrne<\/strong> has been extremely appreciated also for his solo albums and his projects as an author, director, photographer, and playwright.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Byrne<\/strong>\u2019s career started in 1974 when he founded Talking Heads<\/strong>, together with Chris Frantz, Tina Weymouth and Jerry Harrison, who joined the band two years later.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Alongside his experience in the band, Byrne<\/strong> realized different solo projects. In 1981, together with Brian Eno<\/strong>, he published the album My Life in the Bush of Ghosts<\/em>, which was a great success both with the public and the critics and was one of the precursors of sampled music.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 1987, together with<\/strong> Ry\u016bichi Sakamoto and Cong Su wrote the soundtrack for Bernardo Bertolucci\u2019s The Last Emperor<\/em>, winning an Oscar, a Golden Globe, and a Grammy in 1989 for Best Original Score.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Subsequently, Byrne<\/strong> founded his record label Luaka Bop<\/strong>, thanks to which he published the albums by Cornershop, Os Mutantes, Los De Abajo, Jim White, Zap Mama, Tom Z\u00e9 among others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Extremely important were Byrne<\/strong>\u2019s theatre projects: in 2010, together with Fatboy Slim, he wrote a theatrical production on the life of Imelda Marcus, which turned out to be a great success firstly at the Public Theatre in New York and then at the National Theatre in London. In 2017, Byrne<\/strong> wrote Joan of Arc: Into the Fire<\/em>, a play on the story of the medieval heroine, which premiered at New York\u2019s Public Theatre.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As for his solo production, Byrne<\/strong> published several albums during the 2000s, where he mixed electronics with ethnic and orchestral music, while in 2012 he recorded, featuring St.Vincent, Love This Giant<\/em>, thanks to which he approached indie music.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Byrne<\/strong>\u2019s latest album was America Utopia<\/em><\/strong> (2018), which OndaRock defined as: \u00ab a brief essay on what\u2019s America today, in the aftermath of the delirium of omnipotence rooted in the historical vocation to capitalism, reduced to pathetic neo-liberal fashion through which to flaunt desperate vitality through a blurred socio-relational system and clinging to the dream of materialistic self-determination for everyone, years away from the reality of deep discomfort, and seasoned with neurosis and, at times, psychosis. The aspect – among others – absolutely interesting is how Byrne describes the stage on which this farce is staged: grotesque, hilarious, cultured\u00bb.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To promote this album, Byrne<\/strong> performed in Italy at Teatro degli Arcimboldi in Milan in 2018.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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