Jay Brannan
Jay Brannan was born in Houston, Texas, United States on March 29th, 1982 and is the Rock Singer. At the age of 42, Jay Brannan biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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Jay Brannan (born March 29, 1982) is an American singer-songwriter and actor.
He was born in Texas and briefly studied in Ohio, but he went to California to become a writer.
Brannan appeared in the 2006 film Shortbus, which featured one of his songs, on its soundtrack, and began to gain a fan base by performing on YouTube.
In 2007, he was issued an EP and appeared in Holding Trevor.
Since then, he has toured and released four albums.
Early life and career
Brannan was born 1982 in Texas in a middle-class family, and he grew up as the son of a petroleum engineer and a tutor. He described his family as conservative Baptists and quoted homosexuality in their beliefs. Brannan went to college in Cincinnati, Ohio, and later moved to Los Angeles, hoping to become an actor. After the break of a marriage, he was given a casting notice and subsequently moved to New York City and submitted an audition tape. He also served as a proofreader of legal documents for a translation company.
Brannan was cast in the film Shortbus in 2003 and spent time as a proofreader and in other professions to support himself. He contributed the song "Soda Shop" to the film's soundtrack, which he said was his "first professionally recorded track." The album was also released on Team Love Records. Brannan began to record sparse music videos on YouTube, accompanying himself on the guitar, and established a worldwide fan base without corporate sponsorship, using MySpace and Blogspot. He appeared in the film Holding Trevor as the protagonist's most devoted best friend, and he released a limited-edition EP with fours songs titled disasterpiece or Unmastered in 2007, adding two more songs for a 2008 re-release.
Brannan released the album Goddamned through his own label, Great Depression Records, in July 2008, a departure from his previous performances of only four concerts. Brannan resigned from proofreading and started earning himself from concerts and merchandise the following year. In Living Cover, his second album, was released in 2009 and ranked ten on the Billboard Top Heatseekers chart for the week of July 25, 2009. In an interview with ABC News' Now in July 2009, Brannan promoted the album. Then, & Now, his fourth studio album, was released on July 15, 2014 under his own independent label Great Depression Records.
Awards and nominations
- In 2006, he was nominated at the Gotham Awards for Best Ensemble Cast for role in 2006 film Shortbus (joint nomination with Sook-Yin Lee, Paul Dawson, Lindsay Beamish, PJ DeBoy, Raphael Barker, Peter Stickles and Justin Vivian Bond).
- In 2012, he was nominated for a Genie Award in the category "Best Achievement in Music – Original Song" for his song "My Love, My Love" from the soundtrack of 2011 film Cloudburst.