Biography
Date of Birth: December 10, 1972
Nationality: American/English
Instruments played: Guitars, Vocals, Bass
Musical influences: Sonic Youth, PJ Harvey, Nick Drake, The Pixies
Bio: Born 10th of December 1972 in Belgium (Brussels), Brian is the youngest of the two boys of the Molko family. The International banker career of his American father led him to different countries from Belgium, Lebanon, Liberia to Luxembourg where his parents finally settled down. He endured a lonely upbringing and felt much as an only child as his brother was ten years older than him and had left home.
Brian and Stefan attended the same American school in Luxembourg but never spoke to each other as Brian was already an outsider, preferring Drama to sport.
On October 1990, at the age of 17, Brian moved to England to study drama at Goldsmiths in London living in the southeastern side for five years.
His Scottish born-again Christian mother and his father tried to pull him in different directions in his formative years in the hope of making him becoming like them. But the only result they got from him was totally the opposite as he forged his own identity trying to escape from their educational, family and religious pressures, and became the nail-polish, lipstick and eyeliner-wearing, androgynous, travestite, drug taking musician that we all adore. Brian is one of the most charismatic singer of his time, creating along his way bunch of Molko lookalikes and turning innocent girls (and boys) into hysteric fanatics. Brian is definitely our 2Ist Century Boy.
Source:
brian-molko.com
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