David Byrne (born May 14, 1952 in Dumbarton, Scotland) is a solo artist and ex-lead singer of the Talking Heads (please don’t bring this up in front of him). Also, he now tours the country doing Powerpoint Presentations about Powepoint Presentations.

Byrne was born in Dumbarton, Scotland on May 14, 1952. Two years later, his parents moved to Hamilton, Ontario, then Arbutus, Maryland when he was 8 or 9 years old. He attended the Rhode Island School of Design for one year before dropping out and forming Talking Heads in 1974 with fellow RISD students Chris Frantz and Tina Weymouth. He later attended the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore, Maryland for one year.

During his time in the band, Byrne took on outside projects.

He collaborated with Brian Eno in 1981 on the ground-breaking album My Life in the Bush of Ghosts, which attracted considerable critical acclaim and represented a significant step forward in the evolution of sampling as a legitimate musical endeavour.

David Byrne has a daughter named Malu Abeni Valentine Byrne.

Interestingly, Byrne was diagnosed with Asperger’s Syndrome sometime in the past ten years. One quote that appears in the video series by the autistic civil rights movement, AutTV, has him stating that it was not so much a diagnosis as it was an “explanation”.