Jay Brannan

Film & TV

Texas, USA

Jay Brannan is a US actor, singer and songwriter. A Texas native turned New Yorker, Jay Brannan has been writing and performing his own sweet and sad folk songs, tempered with a healthy dose of humour, around the globe since 2006. He appeared as an actor in John Cameron Mitchell’s indie film sensation "Shortbus", in which his song “Soda Shop” was the highest selling song on the film’s soundtrack…

Known for

• Kiss of the Damned — Hans2012
• Holding Trevor — Jake2007
• Gifted and Challenged: The Making of 'Shortbus' — Ceth2007
• Shortbus — Ceth2006

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Gender

Male

Origin

New York

Active from

1982-03-29

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

113,347

Total plays

2,249,814

Jay Brannan is a Texas born singer, actor, and songwriter. After finding homes all over the country to live in, and briefly attending University of Cincinnati's acting school, he decided to plant his feet down in New York City. Brannan was cast in 2003 for the movie Shortbus, directed by John Cameron Mitchell. He contributed the song Soda Shop to the film's soundtrack, which he stated was his "first professionally recorded track". Relatively new to the music world <a href="https://www.last.fm

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Wikidata facts

Instance of

human

Given name

Jay

Gender

male

Citizenship

United States

Place of birth

Houston

Occupation

musician

Educated at

University of Cincinnati

Languages spoken

English language

Native language

English language

Genre

folk music

Instrument

voice

Official website

jaybrannan.com

Image

Jay Brannan, Edinburgh 2008 cropped.jpg

Voice type

tenor

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