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Singer-songwriter David Byrne is opening up about the tough side of parenting.
The Talking Heads singer joined Parents‘ “We Are Family” podcast where he spoke about his own childhood and how his parents encouraged his passions.
“They just left me alone to do what I wanted to do,” Byrne said. “And I think that was really, really important for me that it wasn’t like, ‘Oh, you’re wasting your time doing that.’ There was no attitude like that. It was just like, ‘This is what David wants to do, let him do it.'”
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Byrne also learned that he might be on the autism spectrum.
“I never saw it as being a kind of disability or a problem for me,” said Byrne. “You just think, ‘That’s who I am.’ I think that being a performer was a kind of compensation for that. It allowed me to kind of put myself forward on stage and then I could retreat into myself when I came off stage. But it also allowed me to have an outlet to express myself in ways that I was not able to do socially.”
In 1989, Byrne and then-wife Adelle Lutz welcomed daughter Malu Abeni Valentine Lutz Byrne. Becoming a parent himself made him look back at his own youth “vicariously through this young person who’s discovering the world.”
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And there were parts of parenting being a dad that was “mundane”.
“A child really likes a routine,” he said. “Once there’s a pattern, they kind of like to expect that to continue. And I think I also, as with a lot of first time parents, I was trying to figure out how do you be a parent? And there’s plenty of books
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David Byrne is currently hosting a second Broadway run of his lauded American Utopia show, and brought a performance to CBS Saturday Sessions yesterday (March 5).The show originally started its second run in Manhattan last year but was forced to cancel dates towards the end of 2021 due to company members testing positive for COVID. However, Byrne announced that the show would go on and set to work creating a modified version of America Utopia.With the second run continuing into 2022, Byrne and his band headed to CBS to perform Talking Heads‘ 1982 hit ‘Burning Down The House’ and ‘Marching Through The Wilderness’ to US TV yesterday morning.Check out the performances below:Last year, American Utopia was turned into a Spike Lee-directed movie, which NME called a rare concert film that packs in brilliant music, incredible visuals, a vital political message and jokes” in a five-star review.Elsewhere, Byrne recently announced ‘Theater Of The Mind’, a collaborative stage production between the singer-songwriter and his friend Mala Gaonkar, who is a neuroscientist.
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