42 Facts About Sean Lennon

Sean Taro Ono Lennon is a British-American musician, songwriter, producer and multi-instrumentalist.

Sean Lennon is the son of John Lennon and Yoko Ono, and half-brother to Julian Lennon.

Sean Lennon has released two solo albums: Into the Sun and Friendly Fire.

Sean Lennon has produced numerous albums for various artists, including Black Lips and the Plastic Ono Band.

Sean Lennon was born at Weill Cornell Medical Center in Manhattan, New York City, on October 9,1975, his father's 35th birthday.

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Sean Lennon is of Japanese descent on his mother's side and English, Welsh and Irish descent on his father's side.

Julian Sean Lennon is his half-brother and Kyoko Chan Cox is his half-sister.

Sean Lennon attended kindergarten in Tokyo and, at his request, was educated at the exclusive private boarding school Institut Le Rosey in Rolle, Switzerland, and earlier at New York's private Ethical Culture Fieldston School and Dalton School.

Sean Lennon attended Columbia University for three semesters, majoring in anthropology before dropping out to focus on his music and tour with his mother.

Sean Lennon's parents kick-started his musical career: his debut into the music world came at age five, when he recited a story on his mother's 1981 album, Season of Glass.

From childhood into his teen years, Sean Lennon continued to collaborate with his mother, contributing vocals and receiving production credit on her solo albums It's Alright, Starpeace and Onobox.

At 16 Sean Lennon co-wrote the song "All I Ever Wanted" with Lenny Kravitz for his 1991 album Mama Said, and worked with Kravitz on a cover of his father's "Give Peace a Chance" in protest of the Gulf War.

Sean Lennon holds dual citizenship with the United States and United Kingdom.

Sean Lennon continued to play with them on tour, joining them on television and providing bass guitar and vocals on their EP Super Relax.

The album was produced by fellow Cibo Matto member Yuka Honda, who Sean Lennon claimed was his inspiration for the album, who he had begun dating at the time.

Sean Lennon later recalled promoting the album as a bitter experience due to the media focus on his family rather than his own music.

In 2000, Sean Lennon contributed vocals to Del tha Funkee Homosapien, Handsome Boy Modeling School and Jurassic 5.

In 2000 Sean Lennon had a guest appearance on the Soulfly album Primitive on the song "Son Song".

The videos were actually screen tests for Coin Locker Babies, another project on which Sean Lennon is working which became a cinematic counterpart to his new album.

The night the album was released, Sean Lennon made his first major television appearance in five years, performing "Dead Meat" live on the Late Show with David Letterman.

Sean Lennon has since appeared on Late Night with Conan O'Brien and The Sharon Osbourne Show.

When questioned about the eight-year gap between solo albums in interviews, Sean Lennon said that he did not feel like a solo artist during those years and that he wanted to experience music anonymously without the spotlight on him and his girlfriend.

Since the release of Friendly Fire, Sean Lennon has toured extensively around the world and while in France, he remixed his song "Parachute" in collaboration with French artist -M-.

Muhl and Sean Lennon premiered the band the Ghost of a Saber Tooth Tiger during a live performance at Radio City on Valentine's Day, 2008.

Sean Lennon has collaborated with Muhl with a group called "Kemp and Eden" who premiered at The Living Room in the spring of 2012.

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In 2015, playing lead guitar, Sean Lennon formed the Claypool Sean Lennon Delirium with Primus' lead vocalist and bassist Les Claypool.

Sean Lennon first appeared on the Soulfly album Primitive, released in 2000, while in October 2007, Sean Lennon joined Mark Ronson in the BBC Electric Proms where he sang "Sail on, Sailor", as well as "We Can Work It Out" alongside Daniel Merriweather, and Tawiah.

In 2009 Sean Lennon produced a second album for his mother on his record label Chimera Music, Between My Head and the Sky, by Yoko Ono and the Plastic Ono Band.

Sean Lennon further worked with Ono as a producer for John Malkovich's 2016 remix EP Illuminated.

Sean Lennon co-produced Fat White Family's 2016 album Songs for Our Mothers, which was recorded in his New York City recording studio.

Sean Lennon lent his production and songwriting talents to Lana Del Rey's fourth studio album Lust for Life, where he featured on the track "Tomorrow Never Came".

Sean Lennon entered the field of film scores in 2009 with Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Undead, directed by long-time friend and school mate Jordan Galland.

In 2014, Sean Lennon contributed the song "Animals" for the Zombeavers soundtrack, while he additionally wrote and recorded "Heart Grenade" for the Japanese TV series Ghost in the Shell: Arise.

Sean Lennon created the film score for the 2015 comedy horror film Ava's Possessions, a project which took over two years to create.

From 1996 to 1999, Sean Lennon performed in and was involved in organizing the Tibetan Freedom Concerts with the Beastie Boys' Adam Yauch.

On October 19,2011, Sean Lennon was asked by Josh Sigurdson over Twitter what his opinion on the Occupy Wall Street protests was.

Sean Lennon replied: "I'm heading down there this weekend, " as he did.

On October 22,2011, Sean Lennon showed up on Wall Street with Rufus Wainwright and Josh Fox.

Sean Lennon did not speak to the media or press about the event.

Two days later on August 30,2012, Sean Lennon unveiled "Artists Against Fracking", a campaign aimed at preventing the expansion of fracking in the United States.

Sean Lennon is in a relationship with Charlotte Kemp Muhl, whom he met at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival in 2005.

Muhl and Sean Lennon are involved in several musical endeavors and much of their work is written at their home-based studio in Greenwich Village, New York.