107-475: David Byrne ( / b ɜːr n / ; 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 ,
214-513: 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. David Byrne was born on 14 May 1952 in Dumbarton , Dunbartonshire , Scotland , the elder of two children born to Tom (from Lambhill, Glasgow ) and Emma Byrne. Byrne's father was Catholic and his mother Presbyterian. Two years after his birth,
321-603: A disco opera or song cycle about the life of Imelda Marcos , the controversial former First Lady of the Philippines . Some music from this piece was debuted at Adelaide Festival of Arts in Australia in February 2006 and the following year at Carnegie Hall on 3 February 2007. In 2008, Byrne released Big Love: Hymnal – his soundtrack to season two of Big Love , which aired in 2007. These two albums constituted
428-424: A rear admiral and computer scientist , was the oldest officer and highest-ranking woman in the U.S. armed forces on her retirement at the age of 80 in 1986. Isabella Cannon , the former Mayor of Raleigh, North Carolina , served as the first female mayor of a U.S. state capital. The Scottish-born Alexander Winton built one of the first American automobiles in 1896, and specialized in motor racing . He broke
535-582: A CD collection and performed with Gilberto Gil at a benefit concert promoting the Creative Commons license. In 2006, his singing was featured on "The Heart's a Lonely Hunter" on The Cosmic Game by Thievery Corporation . In 2007, he provided a cover of the Fiery Furnaces ' song "Ex-Guru" for a compilation to celebrate the 15th anniversary of the founding of Thrill Jockey , a Chicago-based record label. In April 2008, Byrne took part in
642-507: A band to tour worldwide for the album for a six-month period from late 2008 through early 2009 on the Songs of David Byrne and Brian Eno Tour . In 2012, he released a collaborative album with American singer-songwriter St. Vincent called Love This Giant . The album featured both Byrne and St. Vincent on vocals and guitar, backed by a brass section. To promote the album, both artists travelled throughout North America, Europe, and Australia on
749-595: A brass section and was driven by tracks such as "Girls on My Mind" and "The Cowboy Mambo (Hey Lookit Me Now)". His fourth solo album, titled David Byrne (1994), was a more proper rock record, with Byrne playing most of the instruments on it, leaving percussion for session musicians. "Angels" and "Back in the Box" were the two main singles released from the album. The first one entered the US Modern Rock Tracks chart, reaching No. 24. For his fifth studio effort,
856-652: A common heritage. The majority of Scotch-Irish Americans originally came from Lowland Scotland and Northern England before migrating to the province of Ulster in Ireland (see Plantation of Ulster ) and thence, beginning about five generations later, to North America in large numbers during the eighteenth century. The number of Scottish Americans is believed to be around 25 million, and celebrations of Scottish identity can be seen through Tartan Day parades, Burns Night celebrations, and Tartan Kirking ceremonies. Significant emigration from Scotland to America began in
963-528: A lesser extent, during the twentieth century, when Scottish heavy industry declined. This new wave peaked in the first decade of the twentieth century, contributing to a hard life for many who remained behind. Many qualified workers emigrated overseas, a part of which, established in Canada, later went on to the United States. In the nineteenth century, American authors and educators adopted Scotland as
1070-442: A model for cultural independence. In the world of letters, Scottish literary icons James Macpherson , Robert Burns , Walter Scott , and Thomas Carlyle had a mass following in the United States, and Scottish Romanticism exerted a seminal influence on the development of American literature. The works of Ralph Waldo Emerson and Nathaniel Hawthorne bear its powerful impression. Among the most notable Scottish American writers of
1177-631: A number of notable Scottish Gaelic poets active in the United States since the eighteenth century, including Aonghas MacAoidh and Domhnall Aonghas Stiùbhart . One of the few relics of Gaelic literature composed in the United States is a lullaby composed by an anonymous woman in the Carolinas during the American Revolutionary War. It remains popular to this day in Scotland. More than 160,000 Scottish emigrants migrated to
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#17327722186241284-599: A parody of "Road to Nowhere". This was Byrne's third appearance on Saturday Night Live . He previously served as the musical guest as part of Talking Heads in 1979 , and as a solo musical guest in 1989 . In 2022, Byrne again collaborated with Mala Gaonkar on another immersive theater production based on his life, "Theater of the Mind" transforming a 15,000 square-foot warehouse in Denver, Colorado. Byrne has contributed songs to five AIDS benefit compilation albums produced by
1391-587: A response, was a form of musical worship initially developed for non-literate congregations and Africans in America were exposed to this by Scottish Gaelic settlers as well as immigrants of other origins. However, the theory that the African-American practice was influenced mainly by the Gaels has been criticized by ethnomusicologist Terry Miller, who notes that the practice of " lining out " hymns and psalms
1498-547: A rework of X-Press 2 collaboration " Lazy ". He also launched a North American and Australian tour with the Tosca Strings. This tour ended with Los Angeles , San Diego and New York shows in August 2005. He also collaborated with Selena on her 1995 album Dreaming of You with "God's Child (Baila Conmigo)". Byrne and Eno reunited for his eighth album Everything That Happens Will Happen Today (2008). He assembled
1605-507: A show recorded with Caetano Veloso in 2004 at New York City's Carnegie Hall ( Live at Carnegie Hall ). In March 2013, he debuted a fully staged production of his 2010 concept album Here Lies Love at New York's Public Theater , directed by Tony Award -nominee Alex Timbers following its premiere at MoCA earlier in the year. That same month, he and Sakamoto released a re-recording of their 1994 collaboration "Psychedelic Afternoon" to raise money and awareness for children impacted by
1712-555: A soundtrack for JoAnne Akalaitis' film Dead End Kids (1986), made after a Mabou Mines theatre production. Byrne's artistic outlook has a great deal in common with the work of these artists. The same year he also added "Loco de Amor" with Celia Cruz to Jonathan Demme 's film Something Wild (1986). His work has been extensively used in film soundtracks , most notably in collaboration with Ryuichi Sakamoto and Cong Su on Bernardo Bertolucci 's The Last Emperor (1987), which won an Academy Award for Best Original Score . Some of
1819-530: A suburb of Boston , and began playing guitar and writing songs in his mid-teens, first performing solo in public in 1967. He became enamored of the Velvet Underground while he was still in high school, and after graduating in 1969, he moved to New York City where he became personally acquainted with the band and on one occasion opened the bill for them. Richman spent a couple of weeks sleeping on Velvets’ manager Steve Sesnick 's sofa before moving into
1926-447: A teacher. Byrne stated that he initially grew up speaking with a Scottish accent but adopted an American one in order to fit in at school. He later recalled "I felt like a bit of an outsider. But then I realized the world was made up of people who were all different. But we're all here." Before high school, Byrne already knew how to play the guitar, accordion, and violin. He was rejected from his middle school 's choir because they said he
2033-604: Is featured on the tracks "Money" and "The People Tree", on N.A.S.A. 's 2009 album The Spirit of Apollo . In 2009, he also appeared on HIV/AIDS charity album Dark Was the Night for Red Hot Organization . He collaborated with Dirty Projectors on the song "Knotty Pine". In the same year, Byrne performed at the Bonnaroo Music Festival in Manchester, Tennessee. He also was a signator of a letter protesting
2140-534: The Encarta encyclopedia and co-created the popular board game Cranium . The Modern Lovers The Modern Lovers were an American rock band led by Jonathan Richman in the 1970s and 1980s. The original band existed from 1970 to 1974 but their recordings were not released until 1976 or later. It featured Richman and bassist Ernie Brooks with drummer David Robinson (later of The Cars ) and keyboardist Jerry Harrison (later of Talking Heads ). The sound of
2247-625: The 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami . In May 2014, Byrne announced his involvement with Anna Calvi 's EP, Strange Weather , collaborating with her on two songs: a cover of Keren Ann 's "Strange Weather" and Connan Mockasin 's "I'm the Man, That Will Find You". In August 2016, he was featured on "Snoopies" on the Kickstarter -funded album, And the Anonymous Nobody... by De La Soul . In 2022, he co-wrote and provided vocals on
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#17327722186242354-534: The Cape Fear valley of North Carolina were centers of Loyalist resistance. A small force of Loyalist Highlanders fell at the Battle of Moore's Creek Bridge in 1776. Scotch-Irish Patriots defeated Scottish American Loyalists in the Battle of Kings Mountain in 1780. Many Scottish American Loyalists, particularly Highlanders, emigrated to Canada after the war. Uncle Sam is the national personification of
2461-605: The Civil War , and a monument to their memory was erected in Edinburgh , Scotland, in 1893. Winfield Scott , Ulysses S. Grant , Joseph E. Johnston , Irvin McDowell , James B. McPherson , Jeb Stuart and John B. Gordon were of Scottish descent, George B. McClellan and Stonewall Jackson Scotch-Irish. Douglas MacArthur and George Marshall upheld the martial tradition in the twentieth century. Grace Murray Hopper ,
2568-628: The Hotel Albert , a residence known for its poor conditions. After nine months in New York, and a trip to Europe and Israel, Richman moved back to his native Boston. With his childhood friend, guitarist John Felice , he organized a band modeled after the Velvets. They quickly recruited drummer David Robinson and bass player Rolfe Anderson, and christened themselves "The Modern Lovers". They played their first date, supporting Andy Paley ’s band
2675-691: The Love This Giant Tour in 2012 and 2013, with each performing pieces from their career in the album's distinctive brass band style alongside those composed for the album. In January 2018, Byrne announced his first solo album in 14 years. American Utopia was released in March through Todo Mundo and Nonesuch Records. He also released the album's first single, "Everybody's Coming to My House", which he co-wrote with Eno. The subsequent tour – which showcased songs from American Utopia alongside highlights from his Talking Heads and solo career to date –
2782-464: The New World were a man named Haki and a woman named Hekja, slaves owned by Leif Eiriksson . The Scottish couple were runners who scouted for Thorfinn Karlsefni 's expedition in c. 1010, gathering wheat and the grapes for which Vinland was named. The controversial Zeno letters have been cited in support of a claim that Henry Sinclair, earl of Orkney , visited Nova Scotia in 1398. In
2889-747: The New York Dolls at the Mercer Arts Center on a bill which also included Suicide and Wayne County . Early in 1973 they were finally signed by Warner Brothers. However, before returning to the studio in Los Angeles to work with Cale, the group accepted an offer to play a residency at the Inverurie Hotel in Bermuda , owned by the family of a friend of Ernie Brooks. While there, Richman heard and became strongly influenced by
2996-613: The Paul Simon retrospective concert series at BAM performing " You Can Call Me Al " and "I Know What I Know" from Simon's Graceland album. Later that year, Byrne and his production team turned the Battery Maritime Building , a 99-year-old ferry terminal in Manhattan , into a playable musical instrument. The structure was connected electronically to a pipe organ and made playable for a piece called " Playing
3103-471: The Red Hot Organization : Red Hot + Blue : A Tribute to Cole Porter , Red Hot + Rio , Silencio=Muerte: Red Hot + Latin , Onda Sonora: Red Hot + Lisbon , and Offbeat: A Red Hot Soundtrip . He appeared as a guest vocalist/guitarist for 10,000 Maniacs during their MTV Unplugged concert, though the songs in which he is featured were cut from the following album. One of them, "Let
3210-717: The Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) in Providence, Rhode Island , during the 1970–71 term and the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore during the 1971–72 term before dropping out. He started his musical career in a high school band called Revelation; then between 1971 and 1972, he was one half of a duo named Bizadi with Marc Kehoe. Their repertoire consisted mostly of songs such as " April Showers ", " 96 Tears ", " Dancing on
3317-606: The Ross brothers , and produced by Byrne. He collaborated with Stanford University professor Mala Gaonkar in 2016 to co-create NEUROSOCIETY, a guided immersive theater performance. In October 2019, his American Utopia opened at the Hudson Theatre on Broadway. Byrne appeared in comedian John Mulaney 's children's musical comedy special John Mulaney & the Sack Lunch Bunch (2019), where he performed
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3424-591: The Scottish Borders . His son Adam II and grandson Adam Abraham (b. Cumberland, England) left for the colonies in the 1730s settling in Pennsylvania. Other Scottish American moonwalkers were the fourth, Alan Bean , the fifth, Alan Shepard, the seventh, David Scott (also the first to drive on the Moon), and the eighth, James Irwin . Scottish Americans Howard Aiken and Grace Murray Hopper created
3531-633: The Scottish Enlightenment contributed to the intellectual ferment of the American Revolution . In 1740, the Glasgow philosopher Francis Hutcheson argued for a right of colonial resistance to tyranny. Scotland's leading thinkers of the revolutionary age, David Hume and Adam Smith , opposed the use of force against the rebellious colonies. According to the historian Arthur L. Herman : "Americans built their world around
3638-586: The United States , and sometimes more specifically of the American government , with the first usage of the term dating from the War of 1812 . The American icon Uncle Sam, who is known for embodying the American spirit, was based on a businessman from Troy, New York , Samuel Wilson , whose parents sailed to America from Greenock , Scotland , has been officially recognized as the original Uncle Sam. He provided
3745-571: The 1700s, accelerating after the Jacobite rising of 1745 , the steady degradation of clan structures, and the Highland Clearances . Even higher rates of emigration occurred after these times of social upheaval. In the 1920s, Scotland experienced a reduction in total population of 0.8%, totally absorbing the natural population increase of 7.2%: the U.S. and Canada were the most common destinations of these emigrants. Despite emphasis on
3852-641: The 1730s. Unlike their Lowland and Ulster counterparts, the Highlanders tended to cluster together in self-contained communities, where they maintained their distinctive cultural features such as the Gaelic language and piobaireachd music. Groups of Highlanders existed in coastal Georgia (mainly immigrants from Inverness-shire) and the Mohawk Valley in New York (from the West Highlands). By far
3959-457: The American colonies was finally regularized by the parliamentary Act of Union of Scotland and England in 1707. Population growth and the commercialization of agriculture in Scotland encouraged mass emigration to America after the French and Indian War , a conflict which had also seen the first use of Scottish Highland regiments as Indian fighters. More than 50,000 Scots, principally from
4066-624: The Atlantic, including the Sex Pistols (who covered "Roadrunner" on The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle ). In early 1976, Richman put together a new version of The Modern Lovers, with Leroy Radcliffe (guitar), Greg 'Curly' Keranen (bass) and the returning David Robinson (drums). Keranen had previously played with The Rubinoos , and Radcliffe with Woody's Truckstop. They recorded the album Jonathan Richman & The Modern Lovers (1976), but Robinson again left after Richman persisted in reducing
4173-671: The Building ". This project was previously installed in Stockholm in 2005, and later at the London Roundhouse in 2009. Byrne says that the point of the project was to allow people to experience art first hand, by creating music with the organ, rather than simply looking at it. Also in 2008, he collaborated with the Brighton Port Authority , composing the music and singing the lyrics for " Toe Jam ". Byrne
4280-663: The Ceiling " and Frank Sinatra songs. He returned to Providence in 1973 and formed a band called the Artistics with fellow RISD student Chris Frantz . The band dissolved in 1974. Byrne moved to New York City in May that year, and in September of that year, Frantz and his girlfriend Tina Weymouth followed suit. After Byrne and Frantz were unable to find a bass guitar player in New York for nearly two years, Weymouth learned to play
4387-507: The English post-punk band Television Personalities on their album Don't Cry Baby, It's Only a Movie . Seminal punk group the Sex Pistols covered " Roadrunner " on The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle . Joan Jett sang "Roadrunner" on her cover album, The Hit List . In 2009 Titus Andronicus covered "Roadrunner" on its EP The Innocents Abroad – Live in London 23/02/09; this recording
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4494-590: The House ". During his time in the band, David Byrne took on outside projects, collaborating with Brian Eno during 1979 and 1981 on the album My Life in the Bush of Ghosts , which attracted considerable critical acclaim due to its early use of analogue sampling and found sounds . Following this record, Byrne focused his attention on Talking Heads. My Life in the Bush of Ghosts was re-released for its 25th anniversary in early 2006, with new bonus tracks. In keeping with
4601-486: The Modern Lovers , an album pursuing the lighter, softer direction he had in mind with a completely different band (the two collections were released within months of each other). However, The Modern Lovers was given an enthusiastic critical reception, with critic Ira Robbins hailing it as "one of the truly great art rock albums of all time", and it influenced numerous aspiring punk rock musicians on both sides of
4708-566: The Mystery Be", appeared as the fourth track on 10,000 Maniacs' CD single "Few and Far Between". On 24 March 1992, he performed with Richard Thompson at St. Ann & The Holy Trinity in Brooklyn Heights , New York. The concert was recorded and released as An Acoustic Evening . Byrne worked with Latin superstar Selena in March 1995; writing, producing and singing a bilingual duet titled "God's Child (Baila Conmigo)". This became
4815-693: The Scots-Irish (or Scotch-Irish) in North America, were descended from people originally from (mainly Lowland) Scotland, as well as the north of England and other regions, who colonized the province of Ulster in Ireland in the seventeenth century. After several generations, their descendants left for America, and struck out for the frontier, in particular the Appalachian mountains, providing an effective "buffer" for attacks from Native Americans. In
4922-475: The Scottish American communities in which they were embedded. Psalm-singing and gospel music have become central musical experiences for African American churchgoers and it has been posited that some elements of these styles were introduced, in these communities, by Scots. Psalm-singing, or " precenting the line " as it is technically known, in which the psalms are called out and the congregation sings
5029-578: The Sidewinders, in September 1970, barely a month after Richman's return. By this time their setlist already included such noted Richman songs as " Roadrunner ", "She Cracked" and "Hospital". Richman's unique character was immediately apparent; he wore short hair and often performed wearing a jacket and tie, and frequently improvised new lyrics and monologues. In early 1971 Anderson and Felice departed; they were replaced by Harvard students bassist Ernie Brooks, and keyboardist Jerry Harrison , completing
5136-895: The U.S., American statesmen of Scottish descent in the early Republic included Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton , Secretary of War Henry Knox , and President James Monroe . Andrew Jackson and James K. Polk were Scotch-Irish presidents and products of the frontier in the period of Westward expansion . Among the most famous Scottish American soldier frontiersmen was Sam Houston , founding father of Texas . Other Scotch-Irish presidents included James Buchanan , Chester Alan Arthur , William McKinley and Richard M. Nixon , Theodore Roosevelt (through his mother), Woodrow Wilson , Lyndon B. Johnson , and Ronald Reagan were of Scottish descent. By one estimate, 75% of U.S. presidents could claim some Scottish ancestry. Scottish Americans fought on both sides of
5243-546: The USA. Later, between 1976 and 1988, Richman used the name Modern Lovers for a variety of backing bands, always billed as "Jonathan Richman and The Modern Lovers". These bands were quieter and featured more low-key, often near-childlike songs as Richman drew on folk-rock and other genres. Of Richman's original bandmates, only Robinson was part of any of the other Modern Lovers incarnations. Richman grew up in Natick, Massachusetts ,
5350-432: The United States. American bluegrass and country music styles have some of their roots in the Appalachian ballad culture of Scotch-Irish Americans (predominantly originating from the "Border Ballad" tradition of southern Scotland and northern England). Fiddle tunes from the Scottish repertoire, as they developed in the eighteenth century, spread rapidly into British colonies. However, in many cases, this occurred through
5457-606: The Velvets-inspired sound of the original Modern Lovers, the demo recordings made with that group eventually surfaced in various formats. The first of these releases came in 1976 when Beserkley compiled a posthumous LP from the first two demo sessions produced by Cale and Mason; issued on Beserkley's Home of the Hits subsidiary, the album was simply titled The Modern Lovers and included celebrated tracks such as "Roadrunner", "She Cracked", and " Pablo Picasso ". Richman did not recognize this compilation as his "first album," preferring to recognize his debut as 1976's Jonathan Richman and
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#17327722186245564-416: The album Jonathan Sings! in 1981/82, but it was not released until 1983. The group toured to support the album, often regarded as one of Richman's best, but split up after Keranen again left in 1984. The final incarnation of The Modern Lovers, with Andy Paley , Brennan Totten and (initially) Asa Brebner again, toured and recorded between 1985 and 1988. Richman finally retired The Modern Lovers name after
5671-424: The album Modern Lovers 88 . Richman continues to perform, often solo and preferring acoustic instruments, and currently has no plans to undertake another group like his original band. A tribute album consisting primarily of Modern Lovers songs, If I Were a Richman: a Tribute to the Music of Jonathan Richman , was released by Wampus Multimedia in 2001. Asa Brebner died in 2019, aged 65. The Modern Lovers band
5778-444: The army with beef and pork in barrels during the War of 1812. The barrels were prominently labeled "U.S." for the United States, but it was jokingly said that the letters stood for "Uncle Sam." Soon, Uncle Sam was used as shorthand for the federal government. Trade with Scotland continued to flourish after U.S. independence. The tobacco trade was overtaken in the nineteenth century by the cotton trade, with Glasgow factories exporting
5885-455: The band also performed live, and one gig at the Long Branch Saloon in Berkeley was later issued as a live album. Producer Kim Fowley courted the band, traveling to Boston to produce some poor-quality demos in June 1972. Felice rejoined the group for a few months after his graduation, and the band moved together to live in Cohasset, Massachusetts . The Modern Lovers continued to be a popular live attraction, and on New Year's Eve 1972 supported
5992-410: The band in 1977. The band released eight studio albums to critical acclaim and commercial success. Four albums achieved gold status (exceeding 500,000 in sales) and two others were certified double-platinum (exceeding two million in sales). Talking Heads were pioneers of the new wave music scene in the late 1970s and early 1980s with popular and creative music videos in regular rotation on MTV . In 1988
6099-421: The band owed a great deal to the influence of the Velvet Underground and the Stooges , and is now sometimes classified as " proto-punk ". It pointed the way towards much of the punk rock , new wave , alternative and indie rock music of later decades. Their only album, the eponymous The Modern Lovers , contained idiosyncratic songs about dating awkwardness, growing up in Massachusetts , love of life, and
6206-400: The band quietly went on hiatus during which Byrne launched a solo career and the other members pursued their own projects. Talking Heads reunited in 1991 to record the single " Sax and Violins " and officially split in December 1991. In 2002, Talking Heads was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame , where they reunited to play three tracks, including " Psycho Killer " and " Burning Down
6313-612: The band, while not opposed to such a shift later, insisted that they record as they sounded now. However, the sessions with Cale in September 1973 also coincided with the death of their friend Gram Parsons (a former Harvard student, like Harrison and Brooks), and produced no usable recordings. The record company then recruited Kim Fowley to produce more sessions with the band, this time at Gold Star Studios , with better results. Recordings from these sessions with Fowley were later released in 1981 on an album titled The Original Modern Lovers (reissued on CD by Bomp Records in 2000). Following
6420-456: The classic lineup of the Modern Lovers. This new configuration became very popular in the Boston area, and by the fall of 1971, enthusiastic word-of-mouth led to the Modern Lovers' first exposure to a major label when Stuart Love of Warner Bros. Records contacted them and organized the band's first multi-track session at Intermedia Studio in Boston. The demo produced from this session, and the group's live performances, generated more attention from
6527-468: The colonial era, they were usually simply referred to as "Irish," with the "Scots-" or "Scotch-" prefixes becoming popular when the descendants of the Ulster emigrants wanted to differentiate themselves from the Catholic Irish who were flocking to many American cities in the nineteenth century. Unlike the Highlanders and Lowlanders, the Scots-Irish were usually patriots in the Revolution. They have been noted for their tenacity and their cultural contributions to
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#17327722186246634-555: The colonies was 250,888, of whom 223,071 (89%) were white and 3.0% were ethnically Scottish. Population estimates are as follows. The number of Americans of Scottish descent today is estimated to be 20 to 25 million (up to 8.3% of the total U.S. population). The majority of Scotch-Irish Americans originally came from Lowland Scotland and Northern England before migrating to the province of Ulster in Ireland (see Plantation of Ulster ) and thence, beginning about five generations later, to North America in large numbers during
6741-557: The colony from Scotland, including prisoners taken in the Wars of the Three Kingdoms . By the 1670s Glasgow was the main outlet for Virginian tobacco , in open defiance of English restrictions on colonial trade ; in return the colony received Scottish manufactured goods, emigrants and ideas. In the 1670s and 1680s Presbyterian Dissenters fled persecution by the Royalist privy council in Edinburgh to settle in South Carolina and New Jersey , where they maintained their distinctive religious culture. Trade between Scotland and
6848-426: The decision of the Toronto International Film Festival to choose Tel Aviv as the subject of its inaugural City-to-City Spotlight strand. In May 2011, Byrne contributed backing vocals to the Arcade Fire track "Speaking in Tongues" which appeared on the deluxe edition of their 2010 album The Suburbs . Jherek Bischoff 's 2012 album Composed features Byrne on the track "Eyes". The same year, he also released
6955-502: The descendants of emigrants, often Gaelic-speaking, from the Maritime Provinces of Canada , from the 1880s onward. Americans of Scottish descent outnumber the population of Scotland, where 4,459,071 or 88.09% of people identified as ethnic Scottish in the 2001 Census. The states with the largest populations of either Scottish or Scotch Irish ancestral origin: The states with the top percentages of Scottish or Scotch-Irish residents: The metropolitan and micropolitan areas with
7062-572: The documentary Île Aiye (1989) and the concert film of his 1992 Latin-tinged tour titled Between the Teeth (1994). In Spite of Wishing and Wanting is a soundscape Byrne produced in 1999 for Belgian choreographer Wim Vandekeybus 's dance company Ultima Vez. In 2003, Byrne guest starred as himself on a season 14 episode of The Simpsons . Released the same year, Lead Us Not into Temptation included tracks and musical experiments from his score to film Young Adam (2003). In late 2005, Byrne and Fatboy Slim began work on Here Lies Love ,
7169-451: The early years of Spanish colonization of the Americas , a Scot named Tam Blake spent 20 years in Colombia and Mexico . He took part in the conquest of New Granada in 1532 with Alonso de Heredia . He arrived in Mexico in 1534–5, and joined Coronado 's 1540 expedition to the American Southwest . After the Union of the Crowns of Scotland and England in 1603, King James VI , a Scot, promoted joint expeditions overseas, and became
7276-432: The eighteenth century. In the 2000 census, 4.8 million Americans self-reported Scottish ancestry, 1.7% of the total U.S. population. Over 4.3 million self-reported Scotch-Irish ancestry, for a total of 9.2 million Americans self-reporting some kind of Scottish descent. Self-reported numbers are regarded by demographers as massive under-counts, because Scottish ancestry is known to be disproportionately under-reported among
7383-407: The emotional Feelings (1997), Byrne employed a brass orchestra called Black Cat Orchestra. His sixth, Look into the Eyeball (2001), continued the same musical exploration of Feelings , but was compiled of more upbeat tracks, like those found on Uh-Oh . Grown Backwards (2004), released by Nonesuch Records , used orchestral string arrangements, and includes two operatic arias as well as
7490-441: The failure to complete a debut album, Warner Brothers withdrew their support for The Modern Lovers, and Robinson left the band. They continued to perform live for a few months with new drummer Bob Turner, but Richman was increasingly unwilling to perform his old (although still unreleased) songs such as "Roadrunner", and after a final disagreement between him and Harrison over musical style the band split up in February 1974. Despite
7597-482: The family moved to Canada, settling in Hamilton, Ontario . The family left Scotland in part because there were few jobs requiring his father's engineering skills and in part because of the tensions in the extended family caused by his parents' interfaith marriage . When Byrne was eight or nine years old they moved to Arbutus, Maryland , in the United States, where his father worked as an electronics engineer at Westinghouse Electric Corporation and his mother later became
7704-523: The film's music. He was impressed by the experimental theatre that he saw in New York City in the 1970s and collaborated with several of its best-known representatives. He worked with Robert Wilson on "The Knee Plays" and "The Forest", and invited Spalding Gray (of The Wooster Group) to act in True Stories , while Meredith Monk provided a portion of the film's soundtrack. Byrne also provided
7811-427: The finished textiles back to the United States on an industrial scale. Emigration from Scotland peaked in the nineteenth century, when more than a million Scots left for the United States, taking advantage of the regular Atlantic steam-age shipping industry which was itself largely a Scottish creation, contributing to a revolution in transatlantic communication. Scottish emigration to the United States followed, to
7918-492: The first American in orbit, John Glenn , and the first man to fly free in space, Bruce McCandless II , were Scottish Americans. The first men on the Moon, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin , were also of Scottish descent; Armstrong wore a kilt in a parade through his ancestral home of Langholm in the Scottish Borders in 1972. Armstrong's ancestry can be traced back to his eighth paternal great-grandfather Adam Armstrong from
8025-565: The first automatic sequence computer in 1939. Hopper was also the co-inventor of the computer language COBOL . Ross Perot , another Scottish American entrepreneur, made his fortune from Electronic Data Systems , an outsourcing company he established in 1962. Software giant Microsoft was co-founded in 1975 by Bill Gates , who owed his start in part to his mother, the Scottish American businesswoman Mary Maxwell Gates , who helped her son to get his first software contract with IBM. Glasgow-born Microsoft employee Richard Tait helped develop
8132-794: The first machine capable of flight, the Bell-Langley airplane , in 1903. Lockheed was started by two brothers, Allan and Malcolm Loughead , in 1926. Douglas was founded by Donald Wills Douglas Sr. in 1921; he launched the world's first commercial passenger plane, the DC-3 , in 1935. McDonnell Aircraft was founded by James Smith McDonnell , in 1939, and became famous for its military jets . In 1967, McDonnell and Douglas merged and jointly developed jet aircraft, missiles and spacecraft . Scottish Americans were pioneers in human spaceflight . The Mercury and Gemini capsules were built by McDonnell. The first American in space, Alan Shepard ,
8239-462: The first releases on his independent record label Todo Mundo. Byrne and Brian Eno provided the soundtrack for the film Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps (2010). In 2015, he organised Contemporary Color , two arena concerts in Brooklyn and Toronto, for which he brought in ten musical acts who teamed up with ten color guard groups. The concerts were made into a 2016 documentary film , directed by
8346-457: The founder of British America . The first permanent English settlement in the Americas, Jamestown , was thus named for a Scot. The earliest Scottish communities in America were formed by traders and planters rather than farmer settlers. The hub of Scottish commercial activity in the colonial period was Virginia . Regular contacts began with the transportation of indentured servants to
8453-511: The frontier. Tobacco plantations and independent farms in the backcountry of Virginia, Maryland and the Carolinas had been financed with Scottish credit, and indebtedness was an additional incentive for separation. Most Scottish Americans had commercial ties with the old country or clan allegiances and stayed true to the Crown . The Scottish Highland communities of upstate New York and
8560-499: The industry, including rave reviews from critic Lillian Roxon , and soon A&M Records was interested in the band as well. In April 1972, the Modern Lovers traveled to Los Angeles where they held two demo sessions: the first was produced by the Velvet Underground's John Cale for Warner Bros. while the second was produced by Allan Mason for A&M. These sessions were later used on the band's debut album. While in California
8667-576: The instrument. While working day jobs in late 1974, they were contemplating a band. By January 1975, Talking Heads were practicing and playing together, while still working normal day jobs. They played their first gig in June. In May 1976, Byrne quit his day job, and the three-piece band signed to Sire Records in November of that year. Byrne was the youngest member of the band. Multi-instrumentalist Jerry Harrison , previously of The Modern Lovers , joined
8774-421: The laid-back style of the local musicians , as documented in his later song "Monologue About Bermuda". There were also growing personality clashes among band members. Although on the band's return Richman agreed to record his earlier songs, he was anxious to move in a different musical direction. He wanted to scrap all of the tracks they had recorded and start over with a mellower, more lyrical sound. The rest of
8881-592: The largest Highland community was centered on the Cape Fear River , which saw a stream of immigrants from Argyllshire, and, later, other regions such as the Isle of Skye . Highland Scots were overwhelmingly loyalist in the Revolution. Distinctly Highland cultural traits persisted in the region until the 19th century, at which point they were assimilated into Anglo-American culture. The Ulster Scots , known as
8988-434: The last song Selena recorded before she was murdered on March 31, 1995. The song was included on the singer's posthumous album Dreaming of You . In 1997, he was the host of Sessions at West 54th during its second of three seasons and collaborated with members of Devo and Morcheeba to record the album Feelings . In 2001, a version of Byrne's single " Like Humans Do ", edited to remove its marijuana reference ,
9095-684: The majority of mixed ancestry, and because areas where people reported "American" ancestry were the places where, historically, Scottish and Scotch-Irish Protestants settled in North America (that is: along the North American coast, Appalachia , and the Southeastern United States ). Scottish Americans descended from nineteenth-century Scottish emigrants tend to be concentrated in the West, while many in New England are
9202-417: The medium of print rather than aurally, explaining the presence of Highland-origin tunes in regions like Appalachia where there was essentially no Highland settlement. Outside of Gaelic-speaking communities, however, characteristic Highland musical idioms, such as the “Scotch-snap,” were flattened out and assimilated into anglophone musical styles. Some African American communities were influenced musically by
9309-693: The music from Byrne's orchestral album The Forest was originally used in a Robert Wilson–directed theatre piece titled The Forest . The play premiered at the Theater der Freien Volksbühne , Berlin, in 1988. It received its New York premiere in December 1988 at the Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM). The Forestry Maxi-single contained dance and industrial remixes of pieces from The Forest by Jack Dangers , Rudy Tambala, and Anthony Capel. Byrne released his soundtrack album in 1991. Byrne also directed
9416-562: The nineteenth century were Washington Irving , James Fenimore Cooper , Edgar Allan Poe and Herman Melville . Poet James Mackintosh Kennedy was called to Scotland to deliver the official poem for the 600th anniversary of the Battle of Bannockburn in 1914. In the twentieth century, Margaret Mitchell 's Gone With the Wind exemplified popular literature. William Faulkner won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1949. There have been
9523-579: The original group's premature break-up, many of its members found considerable success elsewhere: founding member John Felice formed The Real Kids , Jerry Harrison later joined Talking Heads , David Robinson co-founded The Cars , and Ernie Brooks would later work with David Johansen , Arthur Russell , Elliott Murphy , and Gary Lucas . Richman continued recording on his own, eventually moving to California in 1975 to begin working with Beserkley Records whose boss Matthew King Kaufman had met Richman when he worked with A&M. While Richman never returned to
9630-529: The principles of Adam Smith and Thomas Reid , of individual interest governed by common sense and a limited need for government." John Witherspoon and James Wilson were the two Scots to sign the Declaration of Independence, and several other signers had ancestors there. Other Founding Father like James Madison had no ancestral connection but were imbued with ideas drawn from Scottish moral philosophy. Scottish Americans who made major contributions to
9737-648: The revolutionary war included Commodore John Paul Jones , the "Father of the American Navy", and Generals Henry Knox and William Alexander . Another person of note was a personal friend of George Washington, General Hugh Mercer , who fought for Charles Edward Stuart at the Battle of Culloden . The Scotch-Irish, who had already begun to settle beyond the Proclamation Line in the Ohio and Tennessee Valleys , were drawn into rebellion as war spread to
9844-580: The size and volume of his drum kit, and was replaced by D. Sharpe. This band recorded the album Rock 'n' Roll with the Modern Lovers (1977) and toured until Keranen left to go to college and was replaced by Asa Brebner, who played on the albums The Modern Lovers Live (1978) and Back in Your Life (1979). David "D." Sharpe died in 1987, aged 39. In 1980 Richman again formed a new Modern Lovers, with Keranen, drummer Michael Guardabascio and backing singers Ellie Marshall and Beth Harrington. They recorded
9951-461: The song "Pay Attention!" His song "Tiny Apocalypse" was also featured as the special's end credits song. On February 29, 2020, after a 30-year absence, Byrne performed as the musical guest on Saturday Night Live with John Mulaney as host. Byrne performed " Once in a Lifetime " and " Toe Jam " with the cast of the Broadway show American Utopia and appears in the "Airport Sushi" sketch singing
10058-729: The song "This Is a Life" for the original soundtrack to the 2022 film Everything Everywhere All at Once , alongside the film's composers Son Lux and American singer Mitski . Byrne performed the song with Son Lux at the 95th Academy Awards , with Stephanie Hsu providing vocals in place of Mitski. Scottish-American Scottish Americans or Scots Americans ( Scottish Gaelic : Ameireaganaich Albannach ; Scots : Scots-American ) are Americans whose ancestry originates wholly or partly in Scotland . Scottish Americans are closely related to Scotch-Irish Americans , descendants of Ulster Scots , and communities emphasize and celebrate
10165-519: The sons of William C Davidson (1846–1923) who was born and grew up in Angus, Scotland , and Margaret Adams McFarlane (1843–1933) of Scottish descent from the small Scottish settlement of Cambridge, Wisconsin . They raised five children together: Janet May, William A., Walter , Arthur and Elizabeth. Scottish Americans have made a major contribution to the U.S. aircraft industry . Alexander Graham Bell , in partnership with Samuel Pierpont Langley , built
10272-506: The spirit of the original album, stems for two of the songs' component tracks were released under Creative Commons licenses and a remix contest website was launched. Rei Momo (1989) was the first solo album by Byrne after leaving Talking Heads, and features mainly Afro-Cuban, Afro-Hispanic, and Brazilian song styles, including popular dances such as merengue , son cubano , samba , mambo , cumbia , cha-cha-chá , bomba and charanga . His third solo album, Uh-Oh (1992), featured
10379-511: The struggles and 'forced exile' of Jacobites and Highland clansmen in popular media, Scottish migration was mostly from the Lowland regions and its pressures included poverty and land clearance but also the variety of positive economic opportunities believed to be available. The table shows the ethnic Scottish population in the British colonies from 1700 to 1775. In 1700 the total population of
10486-620: The top percentage of Scottish or Scotch-Irish residents: As of 2020, the distribution of Scottish Americans across the 50 states and DC is as presented in the following table. The first Scots in North America came with the Vikings . A Christian bard from the Hebrides accompanied Bjarni Herjolfsson on his voyage around Greenland in 985/6 which sighted the mainland to the west. The first Scots recorded as having set foot in
10593-664: The west coast, settled in the Thirteen Colonies between 1763 and 1776, the majority of these in their own communities in the South , especially North Carolina , although Scottish individuals and families also began to appear as professionals and artisans in every American town. Scots arriving in Florida and the Gulf Coast traded extensively with Native Americans . Highland Scots started arriving in North America in
10700-520: The world speed record in 1900. In 1903, he became the first man to drive across the United States. David Dunbar Buick , another Scottish emigrant, founded Buick in 1903. The Scottish-born William Blackie transformed the Caterpillar Tractor Company into a multinational corporation. Harley-Davidson Inc (formerly HDI ), often abbreviated "H-D" or "Harley", is an American motorcycle manufacturer. The Davidson brothers were
10807-462: Was "off- key and too withdrawn". From a young age, he had a strong interest in music. His parents say that he would constantly play his phonograph from age three and he learned how to play the harmonica at age five. His father used his electrical engineering skills to modify a reel-to-reel tape recorder so that Byrne could make multitrack recordings . Byrne graduated from Lansdowne High School in southwest Baltimore County, Maryland . He attended
10914-596: Was chiefly responsible for the stage design and choreography of the concert film Stop Making Sense (1984). Byrne wrote the Dirty Dozen Brass Band -inspired score Music for "The Knee Plays" , released in 1985, for Robert Wilson 's vast five-act opera The Civil Wars: A Tree Is Best Measured When It Is Down . He wrote, directed, and starred in True Stories (1986), a musical collage of discordant Americana for which he also produced most of
11021-557: Was common all over Protestant Britain in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and that it is far more likely that Gospel music originated with English psalm singing. The first foreign tongue spoken by some slaves in America was Scottish Gaelic picked up from Gaelic-speaking immigrants from the Scottish Highlands and Western Isles. There are accounts of African Americans singing Gaelic songs and playing Scottish Gaelic music on bagpipes and fiddle. The civic tradition of
11128-463: Was described by NME as being perhaps "the most ambitious and impressive live show of all time", blurring the lines "between gig and theatre, poetry and dance". In 1981, Byrne partnered with choreographer Twyla Tharp , scoring music he wrote that appeared on his album The Catherine Wheel for a ballet with the same name, prominently featuring unusual rhythms and lyrics. Productions of The Catherine Wheel appeared on Broadway that same year. He
11235-413: Was influential on the then-burgeoning punk rock and later new wave and indie musical styles, as viewed in the feature-length 2015 documentary Danny Says . John Cale , Iggy Pop and David Bowie have all covered " Pablo Picasso "; it was also covered by Los Angeles-area rock band Burning Sensations for the soundtrack of the 1984 Alex Cox film Repo Man ; additionally the song was covered by
11342-711: Was selected by Microsoft as the sample music for Windows XP to demonstrate Windows Media Player . In 2002, Byrne co-wrote and provided vocals for a track, " Lazy " by X-Press 2 , which reached No. 2 in the United Kingdom and number-one on the US Dance Charts. He said in an interview on BBC Four Sessions coverage of his Union Chapel performance that "Lazy" was number-one in Syria . The track later featured with orchestral arrangements on his Grown Backwards (2004) album. In September 2004, Byrne co-authored
11449-646: Was subsequently included on the fan compilation Feats of Strength. Additional covers of "Roadrunner" include those by Wire and Richman's labelmates The Greg Kihn Band . English rock band Echo & the Bunnymen covered "She Cracked" live on Crystal Days in 1985, although with some altered lyrics. Siouxsie and the Banshees released "She Cracked" as the extra b-side of "This Wheel's on Fire" 1987 double-pack 7-inch, collected on Downside Up . Additionally, American grunge band Seaweed covered "She Cracked" on
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