Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1972-12-10
- Works
- 1
via Open Library + Wikidata
Film & TV
Acting · Bruxelles, Belgique
Brian Molko is a Belgian-born Scottish-American musician and songwriter. He is best known as the lead vocalist, guitarist, and lyricist of the band Placebo. He is known in particular for his distinctive nasal, high-pitched vocals, feminine/androgynous appearance, aggressive guitar style, and unique tunings.
Known for
- Placebo: This Search for Meaning — Self2024
- Placebo - Hurricane Festival 2023 — Self2023
- Placebo - This Is What You Wanted: Live in Mexico City — Self2023
- Placebo - Rock Am Ring 20222022
- ZDF Magazin Royale — Musical Guest2020
- Placebo: Alt.Russia2016
- Placebo: MTV Unplugged — himself2015
- Placebo In concert Paris 2013 — as himself2013
- Placebo: Rock im Pott — Vocals, Guitar2012
- Placebo: We Come In Pieces — Vocals, Guitar2011
via TMDB
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 14,923
- Total plays
- 190,258
Tags
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Born to an American international banker father and a Scottish mother, Brian Molko's family moved frequently during his childhood, including spells in Scotland, Liberia, Lebanon and Luxembourg. Molko has referred to his mother's home town of Dundee, Scotland as "where I grew up". He attended Goldsmiths College in London, where he studied drama. He describes his childhood as a period when he felt very lonely and alienated. He started to wear make-up at the age of 11. He was an actor in a school d
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- QIIME allows analysis of high-throughput community sequencing data
· 2010 · cited 30,735x
- A low-cost, high-efficiency solar cell based on dye-sensitized colloidal TiO2 films
· 1991 · cited 26,463x
- Full-length transcriptome assembly from RNA-Seq data without a reference genome
· 2011 · cited 19,157x
- Introducing mothur: Open-Source, Platform-Independent, Community-Supported Software for Describing and Comparing Microbial Communities
· 2009 · cited 18,794x
- Institutionalized Organizations: Formal Structure as Myth and Ceremony
· 1977 · cited 17,853x
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Key facts
- Born
- ( 1972-12-10 ) 10 December 1972 (age 53) , Brussels , Belgium
- Occupations
- Singer musician songwriter
- Years active
- 1992–present
- Genres
- Alternative rock post-punk glam punk experimental rock
- Instruments
- Vocals guitar keyboards Harmonica
- Labels
- EMI Virgin Hut Caroline PIAS
- Member of
- Placebo
- Website
- www .placeboworld .co .uk
via Wikipedia infobox
Key dates
- Born
- 10 December 1972
via Wikidata · CC0
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Brian
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Place of birth
- Brussels metropolitan area
- Occupation
- executive producer
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Field of work
- music
- Genre
- experimental rock
- Instrument
- voice
Article
Brian Molko (born 10 December 1972) is a British-American musician who is the lead vocalist, guitarist, and lyricist of the band Placebo. He is known for his nasal voice and high registered vocals, feminine/androgynous appearance, aggressive guitar style and non-standard tunings.
Early life
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1972 births20th-century American LGBTQ people20th-century Belgian LGBTQ people20th-century Scottish LGBTQ people21st-century American LGBTQ people21st-century American male singers21st-century Belgian LGBTQ people21st-century Belgian male singers21st-century Scottish LGBTQ people21st-century Scottish male singersAlumni of Goldsmiths, University of London