Artist
David Byrne is a pop artist from Dumbarton, Scotland, United Kingdom formed in 1970. 41 releases are catalogued on Riffiter.
Pop · Dumbarton, Scotland, United Kingdom · Best pop albums
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Who Is the Sky?
2025
Rei Momo
1989
Feelings
1997
Grown Backwards
2004
American Utopia
2018
David Byrne
1994
Uh-oh
1992
Look Into the Eyeball
2001
The Forest
1991
This Sensuous World
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The Twits (Soundtrack from the Netflix Film)
2025
Live At Keswick Theatre, Glenside, 20-07-94 (Remastered)
2021
Come Dance With Me (Live 1994)
2021
American Utopia on Broadway (Original Cast Recording)
2019
Live at Carnegie Hall
2012
Big Love Hymnal
2008
Live From Austin, TX
2007
The Knee Plays
2007
Lead Us Not Into Temptation
2003
Music for The Knee Plays
1985
The Complete Score from "The Catherine Wheel"
1981
drivers license
Single · 2026
What Is The Reason For It?
Single · 2025
Everybody Laughs
Single · 2025
She Explains Things To Me
Single · 2025
T Shirt
Single · 2025
The Avant Garde
Single · 2025
Fat Man's Comin'
Single · 2023
All Directions (Live Philadelphia '94)
Single · 2023
always be you
Single · 2022
alwys b u /// remixed
EP · 2022
gravity
Single · 2022
Last Night I Was Dreaming With You
Single · 2021
Don't Leave Me Stranded Here (Live 1994)
EP · 2021
Santa Cruz de la Sierra
Single · 2019
Everybody's Coming to My House
Single · 2018
This Is That
Single · 2018
Thuggish Love
EP · 2015
Psychedelic Afternoon
Single · 2013
Everything That Happens Will Happen on This Tour
EP · 2009
I'm Losing Myself
Single · 2009
David Byrne was born in Dumbarton, Scotland, on 14 May 1952. When he was 2 years old, his parents moved to Canada at the expense of a company that was recruiting engineers and semi-scientists from Europe. When David was 8 or 9 years old, his parents moved again, this time to the suburbs of Baltimore, Maryland. In September 1970, David went straight from High School to the Rhode Island School Of Design. It was here that he met Chris Frantz and Tina Weymouth who were also enrolled as Freshmen. David was not very impressed by art school: "I think art school is a real racket, especially in this country. You run into a couple of good teachers and some interesting students but for the amount of money you spend, it's not worth it". At Rhode Island School Of Design, David studied a functional design programme known as the Bauhaus Theory course. He also took a conceptual art course. The staff were not sure about David, particularly when he put on a performance in which he had his hair and beard shaved off onstage to a piano accordion accompaniment and a showgirl displaying cue cards written in Russian. The professors at RISD were less charmed, however, and David found himself out on the s…