1. Jay Brannan was born on March 29,1982 and is an American singer-songwriter and actor.
15 Facts About Jay Brannan
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Jay Brannan was born in Texas and briefly studied in Ohio, but moved to California to become an actor.
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Jay Brannan released an EP and acted in Holding Trevor in 2007.
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Jay Brannan was born 1982 in Texas in a middle-class family and grew up as the son of a petroleum engineer and a teacher.
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Jay Brannan described his family as conservative Baptists and mentions their beliefs on homosexuality.
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Jay Brannan went to college for one semester in Cincinnati, Ohio, and went to California, first to Palm Springs and later to Los Angeles, trying to become an actor.
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Jay Brannan worked as a proofreader of legal documents for a translation company.
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Jay Brannan was cast in 2003 for the movie Shortbus and worked as a proofreader and in other jobs to support himself.
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Jay Brannan contributed the song "Soda Shop" to the film's soundtrack, which he stated was his "first professionally recorded track".
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Jay Brannan began to record sparse music videos for YouTube, accompanying himself on the guitar, and built an international fan base without corporate sponsorship, using MySpace and Blogspot.
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In July 2008, Jay Brannan released the album Goddamned through his own label, Great Depression Records, and toured ten dates, a departure from his previous practice of short tours of about four concerts.
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Jay Brannan promoted the album in an interview on ABC News's Now in July 2009.
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Goddamned was described as lo-fi and Jay Brannan compared his concerts to intimate performances in his home.
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Jay Brannan has performed with Terra Naomi and both were compared in style and described as performing indie folk.
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The New York Times stated in 2006 that Jay Brannan was sometimes compared to singer-songwriter Rufus Wainwright and that Jay Brannan saw himself as echoing the angry and sad sound of female singers like Tracy Chapman and Joni Mitchell.