Brandon Boyd

Person · Open Library

Works

4

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Gender

Male

Origin

United States

Active from

1976-02-15

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

44,371

Total plays

891,092

Brandon Charles Boyd (born February 15, 1976) is the lead vocalist and percussionist of the alternative rock band Incubus. He was born in Van Nuys, California. Brandon Boyd grew up in Calabasas, California. His parents Dolly and Charles, both of whom had experience in entertainment, had nurtured his creative side since he was a child. He had first met Jose Pasillas in elementary school in the 1980s, but it wasn't until high school that he was asked to join a band that already included Jose, Mik

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. Convex Optimization

   · 2004 · cited 40,533x

2. Linear Matrix Inequalities in System and Control Theory

   · 1994 · cited 15,115x

3. Distributed Optimization and Statistical Learning via the Alternating Direction Method of Multipliers

   · 2011 · cited 14,346x

4. The Sequence of the Human Genome

   · 2001 · cited 10,178x

5. Efficacy and Safety of the mRNA-1273 SARS-CoV-2 Vaccine

   · 2021 · cited 9,791x

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Quotes

• “We have all the elements of being the worst band in the world: a bass player who’s got some slap-bass shit, heavy riff guitars, a DJ scratching on the songs, a crazy drummer, and a singer who’s in touch with his feminine side. Even our band name is the worst name ever: it evokes imagery of ‘Incubus’ in death-metal writing, with bullet belts across our chests.”
• “When we're making music together, it's like five men making love-in a very platonic sense. It's very erotic, because your spirits are intermingling, you're becoming one. It's also why it can get so heated. You're tapping into this electricity that's very primal.”
• “Jose just got a tattoo of an ass tattooed on his ass the other day. It's actually quite fascinating. Confusing, but fascinating. When you come to the show, ask him about it. He'll show you.”
• “I was in a bookstore, browsing through an old Life magazine, when I saw a picture of what the article called spontaneous human combustion. There were an old guy's legs and shoes, perfectly intact...then, right around his knee area, was just a pile of charred ashes. I was going through some turmoil in my life, both good and bad, and the image struck a chord, so...I wrote a song about it.”
• “I attribute a scab to the present state of society. The way the scab looks in its worst state is gross and chaotic and horrible, that's now, but when it breaks away, there's a brand new piece of skin that's stronger than before. It's like creation out of chaos.”
• “Imagine your brain as a canister filled with ink, Now think of your body as the pen where the ink resides. Fuse the two - Kapow! What are you now? You're the human magic marker, won't you please surprise my eyes?”

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Wikidata facts

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Incubus - Rock in Rio Madrid 2012 - 29.jpg

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