Brian's brothers Dennis and Carl were born in 19, respectively. He has Dutch, Scottish, English, German, Irish, and Swedish ancestry. Life and career 1942–1961: Background and musical training Childhood īrian Douglas Wilson was born on June 20, 1942, at Centinela Hospital in Inglewood, California, the first child of Audree Neva ( née Korthof) and Murry Wilson, a machinist and later a part-time songwriter.
Since 1999, he has toured regularly as a solo artist. In the 1980s, he formed a controversial creative and business partnership with his psychologist, Eugene Landy, and relaunched his solo career with the album Brian Wilson (1988). His first comeback, divisive among fans, yielded the would-be solo effort The Beach Boys Love You (1977). As he declined professionally and psychologically in the late 1960s, his contributions to the band diminished, and he became much-mythologized for his lifestyle of seclusion, overeating, and drug abuse. In 1964, Wilson suffered a nervous breakdown and resigned from regular concert touring, which led to more refined work, such as the Beach Boys' Pet Sounds, and his first credited solo release, " Caroline, No" (both 1966).
Top 40 hits, including the number-ones " Surf City" (1963), " I Get Around" (1964), " Help Me, Rhonda" (1965), and " Good Vibrations" (1966). By the mid-1960s, he had written or co-written more than two dozen U.S. He also produced other acts, most notably the Honeys and American Spring. After signing with Capitol Records in 1962, he became the first pop artist credited for writing, arranging, producing, and performing his own material.
In 1961, he began his professional career as a member of the Beach Boys, serving as the band's songwriter, producer, co-lead vocalist, bassist, keyboardist, and de facto leader. Raised in Hawthorne, California, Wilson's formative influences included George Gershwin, the Four Freshmen, Phil Spector, and Burt Bacharach. Wilson is also known for his past singing style, in which he sang high without engaging in falsetto, and for his lifelong struggles with mental illness. His work is distinguished for its vocal harmonies, complex orchestrations, and introspective or ingenuous themes.
Often called a genius for his novel approaches to pop composition, extraordinary musical aptitude, and mastery of recording techniques, he is widely acknowledged as one of the most innovative and significant songwriters of the 20th century. Brian Douglas Wilson (born June 20, 1942) is an American musician, singer, songwriter, and record producer who co-founded the Beach Boys.