Trent Reznor

Michael Trent Reznor, alias Trent Reznor, was born on May 17, 1965 in New Castle, Pennsylvania. His taste for music was precocious, sitting behind a piano from the age of five. He later learned to play the saxophone and tuba, then joined the local jazz club and brass band before leaving to study computer science. During this period, he joined the group Option 30 and got his first taste of live performance. His three weekly concerts persuaded him to give up a career in IT. So, after just one year at university, he moved to Cleveland, Ohio, where he hoped to realize his musical aspirations. As a keyboardist, he joined several bands between 1985 and 1987, including The Innocent, Exotic Birds, The Problems and Slam Bamboo. Finally, he became assistant engineer... and janitor at Right Track Studios, impressing his boss in both roles with his concentration. It wasn't long before he asked his boss for permission to record his own songs during closing hours. Demanding, he was unable to surround himself with sufficiently convincing musicians and recorded most of the instruments alone. The result was the industrial rock band Nine Inch Nails, with a debut album in 1989 entitled Pretty Hate Machine. Trent Reznor was the band's figurehead for the next three decades, but he proved to be musically insatiable, collaborating with artists as varied as Tori Amos, David Bowie, Rob Halford, Saul Williams and Queens of the Stone Age. He also formed a new band in 2010, How to Destroy Angels, with his wife Mariqueen Maanding and Atticus Ross. Together, they released an EP in 2010 and an album in 2013. Above all, still with Atticus Ross, Trent Reznor found a new vocation in film scoring. After prestigious trials for Oliver Stone(Born Killers) and David Lynch(Lost Highway), the collaboration continued on The Social Network (2014), which won the duo the Oscar for Best Film Score, and then in 2020 for Gone Girl, david Fincher's animated Disney/Pixar film Soul and Mank, followed by Bones and All and Empire of Light in 2022, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and The Killer in 2023 and Challengers in 2024, remixed by Boys Noize in Challengers [Mixed].