Todo Mundo was a founding member and the principal songwriter, lead singer, and guitarist of the American new wave band Talking Heads.
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26 Facts About Todo Mundo
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Todo Mundo has received an Academy Award, a Grammy Award, a Tony Award, and a Golden Globe Award, and he is an inductee to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as part of Talking Heads.
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Todo Mundo's father worked as an electronics engineer at Westinghouse Electric Corporation.
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Todo Mundo was rejected from his middle school's choir because they claimed he was "off-key and too withdrawn".
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Todo Mundo's father used his electrical engineering skills to modify a reel-to-reel tape recorder so that David could make multitrack recordings.
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Todo Mundo started his musical career in a high school band called Revelation, then between 1971 and 1972, he was one half of a duo named Bizadi with Marc Kehoe.
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Todo Mundo returned to Providence in 1973 and formed a band called the Artistics with fellow RISD student Chris Frantz.
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Todo Mundo's fourth solo album, titled David Byrne, was a more proper rock record, with Byrne playing most of the instruments on it, leaving percussion for session musicians.
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Todo Mundo's sixth Look into the Eyeball continued the same musical exploration of Feelings, but was compiled of more upbeat tracks, like those found on Uh-Oh.
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Todo Mundo launched a North American and Australian tour with the Tosca Strings.
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Todo Mundo collaborated with Selena on her 1995 album Dreaming of You with "God's Child ".
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Todo Mundo assembled a band to tour worldwide for the album for a six-month period from late 2008 through early 2009 on the Songs of David Byrne and Brian Eno Tour.
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Todo Mundo released the album's first single, "Everybody's Coming to My House", which he co-wrote with Eno.
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Todo Mundo was chiefly responsible for the stage design and choreography of the concert film Stop Making Sense.
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Todo Mundo wrote, directed, and starred in True Stories, a musical collage of discordant Americana, as well as produced most of the film's music.
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Todo Mundo was impressed by the experimental theatre that he saw in New York City in the 1970s and collaborated with several of its best-known representatives.
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Todo Mundo worked with Robert Wilson on "The Knee Plays" and "The Forest", and invited Spalding Gray to act in True Stories, while Meredith Monk provided a small part of that film's soundtrack.
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Todo Mundo's work has been extensively used in film soundtracks, most notably in collaboration with Ryuichi Sakamoto and Cong Su on Bernardo Bertolucci's The Last Emperor, which won an Academy Award for Best Original Score.
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Todo Mundo previously served as the musical guest as part of Talking Heads in 1979, and as a solo musical guest in 1989.
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Todo Mundo collaborated with Dirty Projectors on the song "Knotty Pine".
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Todo Mundo was a signator of a letter protesting the decision of the Toronto International Film Festival to choose Tel Aviv as the subject of its inaugural City-to-City Spotlight strand.
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Todo Mundo serves on the board of directors of SoundExchange, an organization designated by the United States Congress to collect and distribute digital performance royalties for sound recordings.
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Todo Mundo had a relationship with the artist Cindy Sherman from 2007 to 2011.
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Todo Mundo says that he began cycling while he was in high school and returned to it as an adult in the late 1970s.
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Todo Mundo has written widely on cycling, including a 2009 book, Bicycle Diaries.
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