Brian Douglas Wilson is an American musician, singer, songwriter, and record producer. He co-founded the Beach Boys with his brothers Dennis and Carl, their cousin Mike Love, and friend Al Jardine. Wilson was the first pop artist credited for writing, arranging, producing, and performing his own material. His life was dramatized in the 2014 biopic Love & Mercy.
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Brian Douglas Wilson is an American musician, singer, songwriter, and record producer. He co-founded the Beach Boys with his brothers Dennis and Carl, their cousin Mike Love, and friend Al Jardine. Wilson was the first pop artist credited for writing, arranging, producing, and performing his own material. He is considered a major innovator in the field of music production, the principal originator of the California Sound, and one of the first rock producers to use the studio as its own instrument. His honors include being inducted into the 1988 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame class and winning Grammy Awards for Brian Wilson Presents Smile and The Smile Sessions. In lists published by Rolling Stone, Wilson ranked 52 for the \”100 Greatest Singers of All Time\” in 2008 and 12 for the\”100 Greatest Songwriters of All time\” in 2015. His life was dramatized in the 2014 biopic Love & Mercy. He was born on June 20, 1942, at Centinela Hospital in Inglewood, California, the eldest son of Audree Neva and Murry Wilson, a musician and machinist. He has Dutch, English, German, Irish, and Swedish ancestry. At about age two, Wilson heard George Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue, which had an enormous emotional impact on him. A few years later, he was discovered to have diminished hearing in his right ear. The exact cause of this hearing loss is unclear, though it is believed to have been caused by a blow to the head from his father to a neighborhood bully.
He also played baseball and was a cross-country runner in his senior year of high school. At an early age, Wilson was given six of his brothers’ harmony parts that he would sing with his family and friends at home. At seven and eight, he sang solos on a accordion and, at eight and nine, solos in a church choir behind him. In 2012, music publication NME ranked Wilson number 8 in its \”50 Greatest Producers Ever\” list, elaborating \”few consider quite how groundbreaking Brian Wilson’s studio techniques were in the mid-60s\”. In later years, Wilson became influential to the spirit of punk rock and was regarded as ‘godfather’ to an era of indie musicians who were inspired by his melodic sensibilities, chamber pop orchestrations, and recording explorations. In 1992, Wilson started receiving conventional medical treatment for his mental illness. Since the late 1990s, he has recorded and performed consistently as a solo artist. Wilson is often referred to as a genius and is widely acknowledged as one of the most innovative and significant songwriters of the late 20th century. Brian, who grew up influenced by 1950s rock and roll and jazz-based vocal groups, originally functioned as the band’s songwriter and producer. In 1964, he suffered a nervous breakdown and stopped touring with the group, which led to more personal work such as Pet Sounds and the unfinished Smile.
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