Brian Eno

Brian Peter George St John le Baptiste de la Salle Eno, or more modestly Brian Eno, was born in Woodbridge, Suffolk (UK), on May 15, 1948. He studied art before turning to music, although he denies being a musician. A keyboard manipulator, he took part in the first two albums of the exuberant glam rock band Roxy Music, alongside singer Bryan Ferry, then collaborated with King Crimson guitarist Robert Fripp in Pussyfooting. He then devoted himself to his solo career with Here Comes the Warm Jets (1973) and to production, notably for David Bowie, Talking Heads, U2, Coldplay and others. In 1975, the album Discreet Music inaugurated the concept of ambient music, continued in a collection of recordings called Music for Airports. A pioneer of electronic music, a sought-after producer and a visionary theorist, Eno continued his experimentation through collaborations with David Byrne (the precursory electro-world rapprochement of My Life in the Bush of Ghosts in 1981), John Cale(Wrong Way Up, 1990) or Karl Hyde(Someday World in 2014 then High Life in 2015). Welcomed with open arms by the pioneering label Warp Records, he spread his musical ideas on the albums Lux (2012), then the triptych The Ship, Reflection and Sisters (2017). After collaborating with his brother Roger Eno on Mixing Colours in 2020, and between the soundtracks to the films Rams (2020) and Top Boy (2023), he composed the personal albums Foreverandevernomore (2022) and Aurum (2025).