Sean Lennon
Lennon performing in San Francisco, 29 April, 2007. Events 1429 - Joan of Arc arrives to relieve the Siege of Orleans.
Background information
Birth name	Sean Taro Ono Lennon
Born	9 October 1975 (1975-10-09) (age 32) New York, U.S.
Genre(s)	Indie pop Indie rock
Occupation(s)	Singer-Songwriter, Writer, Actor
Instrument(s)	Guitar, Bass, Piano, Drums
Years active	1991 - Present
Label(s)	Grand Royal Records, Capitol
Associated acts	Cibo Matto, Dopo Yume, The Ghost Of A Saber Toothed Tiger, Mark Ronson, Rufus Wainwright
Website	Official Website

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Contents 1 Biography 1.1 Early life and education 1.2 Cibo Matto and Into The Sun 1.3 Comeback and Friendly Fire 2 Musical influence 3 Solo discography 3.1 Albums 3.2 EPs 3.3 Singles 4 Producer 5 Filmography 6 Bibliography 7 References 8 External links

Biography

Early life and education

Sean Lennon was born in New York City on October 9, 1975 (his father's 35th birthday). Events 768 - Carloman I and Charlemagne are crowned Kings of The Franks. Year 1975 ( MCMLXXV) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Kyoko Chan Cox and Julian Lennon are his half-siblings. born in Tokyo on February 18 1933 is a Japanese Artist and Musician. John Charles Julian Lennon (born 8 April 1963) known universally as Julian Lennon, or by many fans Jude, is an English After Sean's birth, John became a house husband, doting on his young son until his murder in 1980. Sean was educated at the exclusive private boarding school Institut Le Rosey in Rolle, Switzerland and earlier at New York's private Ethical Culture Fieldston School and Dalton. Institut Le Rosey, established in 1880 is the oldest private Boarding school in Switzerland and one of the most exclusive educational institutions in the world The Ethical Culture Fieldston School, known as Fieldston is a private "independent" school in New York City and a member of the Ivy Preparatory He later attended Columbia University, though only for three semesters before dropping out to focus on his music career. Columbia University is a private University in the United States and a member of the Ivy League.

His debut into the music world came at the age of six, reciting a story on his mother's 1981 album Season of Glass. From childhood into his teen years Sean continued to collaborate with his mother, contributing vocals and receiving production credit on her solo albums It's Alright (I See Rainbows), Starpeace and Onobox. It's Alright (I See Rainbows is the sixth solo album by Yoko Ono, and her second release after the death of husband John Lennon. Starpeace is Yoko Ono 's 1985 concept album designed to spread a message of peace around the world as an opposition to Ronald Reagan 's "Star Wars" Onobox is a 1992 comprehensive 6-disc collection of Yoko Ono 's work from 1968 to 1985 At sixteen Sean co-wrote the song "All I Ever Wanted" with Lenny Kravitz for his 1991 album Mama Said. Leonard Albert "Lenny" Kravitz (born May 26, 1964) is an American Singer-songwriter, Multi-instrumentalist, Record By 1995 Sean had formed the band IMA (with Sam Koppelman and Timo Ellis) to play alongside his mother on her album Rising. Timo Ellis is a Multi-instrumentalist and Record producer from New York City, currently in the band The Netherlands Sean also made appearances in film, featured in the cast of Michael Jackson's 1988 Moonwalker and portraying a teenager experiencing visions of various MC Escher paintings in Sony's 1990 promotional short-film Infinite Escher. Michael Joseph Jackson (born August 29 1958 is an American musician entertainer and businessman Maurits Cornelis Escher (17 June 1898 – 27 March 1972 usually referred to as M is a multinational conglomerate corporation headquartered in Minato Tokyo, Japan, and one of the world's largest Media conglomerates with

Cibo Matto and Into The Sun

In 1996 Miho Hatori and Yuka Honda of Cibo Matto were invited by Ono to remix the song "Talking To The Universe" for a Rising remix EP Rising Mixes. is a singer and songwriter primarily known as the vocalist of the New York City group Cibo Matto. Yuka Honda is a Japanese musician who resides in New York City Cibo Matto (meaning crazy food in Italian, and tʃiːbo matːo was a New York City -based band formed by Yuka Honda and Miho Hatori An extended play ( EP) is a Vinyl record, CD, or Music download which contains more music than a single, but is too short to qualify They met Sean and invited him to join them on tour as a bass player. This eventually led to Sean contributing to their side-project Butter 08 and to his becoming a member of the group. Butter 08 was a short-lived musical side project whose members consisted of Yuka Honda and Miho Hatori of Cibo Matto, Russell He continued to play with them on tour, joining them on television and providing bass guitar and vocals on their EP, Super Relax. Super Relax is an EP by Cibo Matto released in 1997 Four of the nine tracks are variations on the song "Sugar Water" from their debut album Through his association with Cibo Matto, Lennon was approached by Adam Yauch (of the Beastie Boys), who expressed an interest in his music and persuaded him to sign a record contract with Grand Royal Records. Adam Nathaniel Yauch (pronounced IPA /jaʊk/ also known as MCA and Nathaniel Hörnblowér, (born August 5, 1964) is a founding Grand Royal was the Los Angeles, California based Record label set up in 1992 by The Beastie Boys in conjunction with Capitol Regarding Grand Royal, Lennon has said, "I think I found the only label on the planet who doesn't care who my parents are and what my name is. It's a good feeling to know that I wouldn't have gotten the offer if they wouldn't have liked my songs. That's pretty rare in the music business!".

Lennon's solo début Into the Sun, was released in 1998. Into the Sun is the 1998 debut album by Sean Lennon. It was released during his time performing with Cibo Matto along with girlfriend Yuka Honda A music video for "Home", a single from the album, was directed by Spike Jonze and enjoyed extended airplay on MTV. A music video is a Short film or video that accompanies a complete piece of music most commonly a Song with lyrics Spike Jonze (born Adam Spiegel October 22, 1969) is an American director of Music videos and commercials and an Academy MTV ( Music Television) is an American Cable television network based in New York City. The album was produced by fellow Cibo Matto member Yuka Honda, who Lennon claimed was his inspiration for the album. They struck up a personal relationship as well as a creative one.

He would go on to tour (often backed by Cibo Matto) supporting Into The Sun. During this period he would appear on radio programs such as The Howard Stern Show and KCRW's Morning Becomes Eclectic. The Howard Stern Show is an American radio show hosted by Howard Stern on Howard 100, one of two channels on the subscription-based KCRW (899 MHz FM) is a Public radio station broadcasting from the campus of Santa Monica College in Santa Monica California Morning Becomes Eclectic (MBE is a three-hour Adult album alternative (triple-A Radio program first aired in 1977 and broadcast live every weekday from He would later recall promoting the album as a bitter experience due to the media focus on his family rather than his own music. In 1999, Sean's EP Half Horse, Half Musician was released featuring new tracks such as "Heart & Lung" and "Happiness" as well as remixes of songs from Into The Sun. Half Horse Half Musician is a 1999 EP by Sean Lennon. It features three remixes from his debut album Into the Sun ("Queue" Along with Half Horse Half Musician 1999 saw the release of Cibo Matto's second album Stereo Type A. Cibo Matto (meaning crazy food in Italian, and tʃiːbo matːo was a New York City -based band formed by Yuka Honda and Miho Hatori Stereo ★ Type A is an album by Cibo Matto released in 1999 Track listing " Working for Vacation " (Cibo Matto Sean stepped out of his traditional role as the group's bass player, this time playing a much wider range of instruments (such as drums, guitars and synthesizers). Despite being well received Stereo Type A was to be the final Cibo Matto album and the group disbanded.

In 2000 Lennon briefly entered the world of hip hop, contributing vocals to Del tha Funkee Homosapien, Handsome Boy Modeling School and Jurassic 5. Hip hop is a cultural movement which developed in New York City in the 1970s primarily among African Americans and Latinos. Del tha Funkee Homosapien is an Alternative hip hop artist Del was born Teren Delvon Jones on August 12, 1972 in Oakland, California Handsome Boy Modeling School is a hip hop collaboration between Dan the Automator and Prince Paul, producer of rap trio Jurassic 5 was an American Alternative hip hop group formed in 1993 by rappers Chali 2na, Akil, Zaakir aka Soup, Mark In 2001 on national television, Sean performed Beatles classics "This Boy", "Across The Universe" and "Julia" alongside Robert Schwartzman, Rufus Wainwright and Moby for Come Together: A Night for John Lennon's Words and Music. The Beatles were a pop and rock band from Liverpool, England formed in 1960 Richard Melville Hall, also known as Moby (born September 11, 1965 in Harlem, New York) is an American DJ In the following years Sean faded out of the spotlight. However he collaborated with various bands and artists as a session musician and producer. Session musicians are musicians available for hire as opposed to musicians who are either permanent members of a musical outfit or who have acquired fame in their own right

Comeback and Friendly Fire

After the demise of Grand Royal Records in 2001, Sean signed with Capitol Records (whose parent company EMI has released the vast majority of his father's musical output, group and solo), yet no solo material surfaced until February 2006, when "Dead Meat" was released as the first single from his new album, Friendly Fire. Capitol Records is a major United States -based Record label owned by EMI and located in Hollywood California and New York City as The EMI Group is a British music company comprising the major record company EMI Music – which operates several labels and is based in Kensington in Friendly Fire is the second Studio album by Sean Lennon. The album was released on October 3 2006 by Capitol Records in the U A promotional trailer for the CD/DVD package of Friendly Fire was leaked online in early 2006. A Compact Disc (also known as a CD) is an Optical disc used to store digital data, originally developed for storing digital audio DVD (also known as " Digital Versatile Disc " or " Digital Video Disc " - see Etymology)is The trailer featured scenes from the film version of the album, a DVD of music videos comprised into a film. Friendly Fire is a 2006 Film written and directed by Sean Lennon & Michele Civetta. The videos were actually screen tests for Coin Locker Babies, another project on which Lennon is working which became a cinematic counterpart to his new album ^[1]. The theme of the album is based around love and betrayal and was dedicated to the death of a close friend of his. Friendly Fire was released in October, 2006. The night the album was released, Lennon made his first major television appearance in five years, performing "Dead Meat" live on the Late Show with David Letterman. The Late Show with David Letterman is an Emmy Award -winning American late-night Talk show hosted by David Letterman on CBS Lennon has since appeared on Late Night with Conan O'Brien and The Sharon Osbourne Show. Late Night with Conan O'Brien is an Emmy Award -winning American late-night Talk show hosted by Conan O'Brien on NBC The Sharon Osbourne Show refers to either of two TV chat shows hosted by Sharon Osbourne &ndash the original US version or the more recent UK ( ITV When questioned about the eight year gap between solo albums in interviews Lennon expressed that he didn't feel like a solo artist during those years and that he wanted to experience music anonymously without the spotlight on him. Since the release of Friendly Fire, Lennon has been touring extensively around the world and while in France remixed his song "Parachute" in collaboration with French artist -M-. The remix is entitled "L'éclipse" ^[2] and was featured as a bonus track on the French release of Friendly Fire.

Although again establishing himself as a solo artist Lennon has continued his work as a session musician and producer, lending his talent to the likes of Dopo Yume, Albert Hammond, Jr. (of The Strokes) and model/singer Irina Lazareanu. Albert Hammond Jr (born April 9 1980 Los Angeles, California) is a Musician and member of the Garage rock band, The Strokes Irina Lazareanu (born 8 June 1982) is a Canadian model. Romanian born Lazareanu got her ‘big break’ through her acquaintance with In October, 2007 Sean joined Mark Ronson in the BBC Electric Proms where he sang Sail on, Sailor, as well as We Can Work It Out alongside Daniel Merriweather, and Tawiah. Mark Daniel Ronson (born 4 September 1975 is an English Brit Award and three-times Grammy award -winning Music producer, artist and co-founder of "Sail On Sailor" was the final song recorded for the 1973 Beach Boys album Holland. " We Can Work It Out " is a song written by John Lennon and Paul McCartney and released by The Beatles as a " Double A-sided Daniel Paul Merriweather (born 1982 in Melbourne, Australia) is an R&B Singer / Songwriter. Along with girlfriend Charlotte Kemp Muhl, Sean premiered the side-project "The Ghost Of A Saber Toothed Tiger" [1] during a live performance at Radio City on Valentines Day, 2008. Valentine's Day or Saint Valentine's Day is a Holiday celebrated on February 14 The duo host their music on MySpace and perform under the aliases of Amatla and Zargifon. Expanding on his musical output even further Sean has stepped into the world of film scores with Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Undead ^[3]. A film score is a broad term referring to the music in a film which is generally categorically separated from songs used within a film Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Undead is a 2008 American independent film written and directed by Jordan Galland. With the release of new material and subsequent touring Sean launched a website featuring music, videos and a forum for his fans. Various members of the forum have even crated a fan-made cover album entitled Truth Mask Replica. In a You Tube video released for his website (January, 2008) Lennon has stated that he is working on a new solo album as well.

Musical influence

Lennon has said that Brian Wilson and the Beach Boys are major influences in his music and he interviewed Wilson on a limited edition CD entitled Words and Music. Brian Douglas Wilson (born June 20, 1942 in Hawthorne, California) is an American Musician best known as the lead The Beach Boys is an American rock band Formed in 1961 the group gained popularity for its close vocal harmonies and lyrics reflecting a California Youth culture During the release of Into The Sun, Sean often talked about his admiration for Brazilian band, Os Mutantes. Os Mutantes (uz muˈtɐ̃tʃis The Mutants are an influential Brazilian Psychedelic rock band that were linked with the Tropicália movement While in Brazil, Sean performed live with Arnaldo Baptista (bass guitar player and vocalist of Os Mutantes) and later designed the artwork for the Os Mutantes album, Tecnicolor (2000). Arnaldo Dias Baptista (b July 6, 1948 in São Paulo) is a Brazilian rock musician and composer Tecnicolor would have been the fourth album by the Brazilian Tropicália band Os Mutantes. Lennon has stated that The Beastie Boys album Check Your Head was a source of inspiration, with its varied music styles contained in one album. Check Your Head is the third album by the Beastie Boys, released on April 21, 1992.

Solo discography

Albums

• Into the Sun (1998)
• Friendly Fire (2006)

EPs

• Half Horse, Half Musician (1999)

Singles

• "Home" (1998)
• "Queue (Radio Mix)" (1999)
• "Dead Meat" (2006)
• "L'éclipse" (2007) - in collaboration with -M-

Producer

• Sean Lennon - Half Horse Half Musician (1999)
• Soulfly - Primitive (2000)
• Valentine Original Soundtrack (2001)
• Esthero - Wikked Lil' Grrrls (2005)
• Sean Lennon - Friendly Fire (2006)
• Irina Lazareanu - Some Place Along the Way (2007)

Filmography

• Moonwalker (1988) - Actor
• Smile for the Camera (2005) - Original Score, Writer
• Friendly Fire (2006) - Actor, Original Score, Writer
• The Stranger [2] (2008) - Original Score
• Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Undead (2008) - Original Score
• Tea Fight (2008) - Original Score
• Coin Locker Babies (2008 in production) - Actor, Writer

Bibliography

• Part Asian, 100% Hapa (2006) - Sean is credited with writing the Foreword

References

External links

• Sean Ono Lennon.com (Official)
• Sean Lennon Discography
• "Sean Lennon', New York Magazine 05/18/98
• Sean Lennon Interview on I Like Music 2006
• Interview with director Michele Civetta about Friendly Fire
• [3]
• Sean Lennon at the Internet Movie Database

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