1. Brandon Richard Flowers was born on June 21,1981 and is an American musician.
23 Facts About Brandon Flowers
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Brandon Flowers serves as the co-founder, lead vocalist, primary songwriter, keyboardist, and occasional bassist of the Las Vegas-based rock band the Killers, which he formed with Dave Keuning in 2001.
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Brandon Flowers has reached number one on the UK Albums Chart ten times, and on the Billboard 200 once, including work with the Killers.
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Brandon Flowers has an older brother and four older sisters.
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Brandon Flowers's parents met as teenagers, and he wrote the song "A Dustland Fairytale" as a tribute to their marriage and lifelong romance.
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Brandon Flowers's grandmother was from Lithuania, and his cousin is Craig Barlow, an inductee to the Las Vegas Golf Hall of Fame.
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Brandon Flowers's family lived in Henderson until Brandon Flowers was eight, when they moved to Payson, Utah, for two years before moving to Nephi, Utah, when he was in the sixth grade.
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Brandon Flowers lived in Nephi until his junior year at Juab High School, when in 1997, at 16, he moved back to Las Vegas to live with his aunt.
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Brandon Flowers responded to an ad that Dave Keuning had placed in the Las Vegas Weekly in late 2001, whereupon they became the Killers.
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Brandon Flowers wrote the lyrics to the single "All These Things That I've Done" that numbered among the "100 Greatest Songs of All Time" by The Daily Telegraph and earned one of the band's seven Grammy nominations.
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Brandon Flowers debuted his solo act at the Shimmer Showroom in Las Vegas on August 15,2010.
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Brandon Flowers stated that the album was "definitely going to be different" from his last album, and he referred to producer Ariel Rechtshaid as his "co-captain".
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MTV rated Brandon Flowers' tour stop at London's Brixton Academy five stars.
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Brandon Flowers performed for President Barack Obama in 2015 at the National Clean Energy Summit.
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Brandon Flowers performed at the Royal Variety Performance at Royal Albert Hall for members of the British Royal Family.
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Brandon Flowers was one of two favorite artists asked to perform "Be Still" and "Home Means Nevada" at the funeral of former US Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid on January 8,2022.
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Brandon Flowers married Tana Mundkowsky in 2005 and lives in Las Vegas, Nevada, and Park City, Utah.
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Brandon Flowers wrote the song "Some Kind of Love" for his wife who suffers from PTSD.
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Brandon Flowers and his wife have three sons, born in 2007,2009, and 2011.
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Brandon Flowers's portrait was painted by British artist Joe Simpson for his "Musician Portraits" series that was exhibited at the Royal Albert Hall in 2012.
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Brandon Flowers has listed Bruce Springsteen, Oingo Boingo, Duran Duran, Pet Shop Boys, the Smiths, the Cars, and Depeche Mode among his musical influences.
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Brandon Flowers is regarded as a prominent frontman of the new wave revival in the 2000s.
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Brandon Flowers has been awarded the Q Idol Award and appeared on multiple greatest-frontman-of-all-time lists published by various outlets.