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David Byrne
Dumbarton, Dunbartonshire, Scotland, UK
David Byrne (/bɜːrn/; born 14 May 1952) is a Scottish-American musician, writer, visual artist, and filmmaker. He was a founding member, principal songwriter, lead singer, and gui…
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David Byrne (/bɜːrn/; born 14 May 1952) is a Scottish-American musician, writer, visual artist, and filmmaker. He was a founding member, principal songwriter, lead singer, and guitarist of the American new wave band Talking Heads. Byrne has released solo recordings and worked with various media, including film, photography, opera, fiction, and non-fiction. He has received an Academy Award, a Grammy Award, a Special Tony Award, and a Golden Globe Award, and he is an inductee to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as part of Talking Heads. Description above from the Wikipedia article David Byrne, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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2026
Musk
Movie Songs
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2026
Changing Lanes
Movie Self
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2025
Breakdown: 1975
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2025
The Twits
Movie Gordon Sniffles (voice)
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2025
Monk in Pieces
Movie Self
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2025
We Want the Funk!
Movie Self
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2025
SNL50: The Homecoming Concert
Movie Self
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2025
Ladies & Gentlemen... 50 Years of SNL Music
Movie Self
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2024
Eno
Movie Self
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2023
Homo Brasilis: Tom Zé, o Tropicalista Visionário
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2023
John Mulaney: Baby J
Movie Musician
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2022
Miley's New Year's Eve Party
Movie Self
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2022
Everything Everywhere All at Once
Movie Songs
- 2021
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2021
Twyla Moves
Movie Self
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2020
BREAK IT ALL: The History of Rock in Latin America
TV show Self
More credits
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2020
David Byrne's American Utopia
Movie Self - Lead Singer & Performer
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2020
FeeLee. History of a Single Label
Movie Self
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2020
Stars in the House
TV show Self - Winner
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2019
John Mulaney & The Sack Lunch Bunch
Movie David Byrne
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2019
Café Tacvba - Un Segundo / MTV Unplugged
Movie Self - Voice
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2019
Everything For All Reasons
Movie Self
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2019
Triple-Chaser
Movie Narrator
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2019
Hream
Movie David Byrne
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2019
Museum Town
Movie Self
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2018
Real Life
Movie Narrator / Self
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2018
The Making of True Stories
Movie Self
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2018
David Byrne: ACL Fest 2018
Movie Self
- 2017
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2016
Contemporary Color
Movie
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2016
Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World
Movie Musician
- 2016
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2016
Temporary Color
Movie
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2015
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
TV show Self - Musical Guest
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2015
We're Gonna Die
Movie David Byrne
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2015
StarTalk with Neil deGrasse Tyson
TV show Self
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2014
Lennon or McCartney
Movie Self
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2014
Late Night with Seth Meyers
TV show Self - Guest
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2014
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
TV show Self
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2013
Fathers and Songs: Music for Father's Day
Movie Self (archive footage)
