Brendon Urie

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Brendon Urie Biography

Lead singer of the pop rock band Panic! at the Disco who plays bass, organ, accordion, and cello, among other instruments. In 2015, he became the sole remaining member of the band.

He was picked on in high school for being hyperactive and worked at a smoothie shop in order to pay for practice space.

In 2017 he starred in Cyndi Lauper‘s Tony Award-Winning Broadway musical Kinky Boots.

He married Sarah Orzechowski on April 27, 2013. He later came out as pansexual in 2018.

He wrote a song for the soundtrack of Jennifer’s Body, a film which starred Megan Fox.

Brendon Boyd Urie (born April 12, 1987) is an American singer, songwriter, and musician, best known as the lead vocalist of Panic! at the Disco, of which he is the only original member remaining.

Since then, Panic! at the Disco has released six studio albums with Urie as lead vocalist. A Fever You Can’t Sweat Out was released in 2005 with the hit lead single “I Write Sins Not Tragedies” propelling it to 1.8 million sales. For their second album, Pretty. Odd. (2008), Urie also took lyrical responsibility and wrote two of the tracks on the record by himself; those tracks being “I Have Friends in Holy Spaces” and festival favorite “Folkin’ Around.” He also wrote “New Perspective” for the soundtrack to the motion picture Jennifer’s Body.

Urie has also been involved with several songs and other projects by former labelmates Fall Out Boy. He provided vocals on the songs “What a Catch, Donnie” and “20 Dollar Nose Bleed” from Fall Out Boy’s 2008 album, Folie à Deux. Urie also sang back vocals on the track “7 Minutes In Heaven” off of Fall Out Boy’s From Under The Cork Tree.

In 2008, Urie became involved with a song for the Coca-Cola Company, called “Open Happiness.” Urie sings the chorus of the song, which also features labelmate Patrick Stump of Fall Out Boy, labelmate Travis McCoy of Gym Class Heroes, Cee-Lo Green, and Janelle Monáe. The song was written and produced by Butch Walker, co-written by Cee-Lo Green and remixed by Polow Da Don. Urie was also featured as an elated news reporter in the music video for the song, which was released on July 16, 2009.

Urie appeared in the music videos “A Little Less Sixteen Candles, a Little More Touch Me,” “What A Catch, Donnie” and “Headfirst Slide into Cooperstown on a Bad Bet” by Fall Out Boy. Urie appears in the Gym Class Heroes video for the song “Clothes Off!!” alongside former Panic! at the Disco band members Ryan Ross, Spencer Smith and Jon Walker. The members are seen dancing in animal costumes, Urie being in a dog suit. Urie also appears in “One of THOSE nights” by The Cab, which also features Ryan Ross, Jon Walker, Pete Wentz, Patrick Stump and Spencer Smith. In 2010 Urie and bandmate Spencer Smith appeared in Butch Walker’s music video “Pretty Melody,” appearing as ninjas. Brendon co-wrote a song with Rivers Cuomo of the band Weezer. Rivers has said that “If Panic! wants it, they have first dibs, but if not, it could work for Weezer.” Urie and bandmate Spencer Smith appeared in Butch Walker’s Panic! at Butch Walker’s, a parody in which Urie discovers Walker is a psychotic homicidal cannibal, and Brendon is his next meal.

On March 22, 2011, the band released their third album Vices & Virtues following the departure of Ross and Walker. On October 8, 2013, the fourth album, Too Weird to Live, Too Rare to Die! was released. It debuted at No. 2 on the Billboard 200. On July 21, 2014, Urie won “Best Vocalist” at the Alternative Press Music Awards. In 2015, founding drummer Spencer Smith left the band and bassist Dallon Weekes departed from the official lineup, being downgraded to a touring member, leaving Urie as the only member of the official lineup.

In 2013, Urie said that he had “experimented” with men but stated, “I guess if I had to classify myself, I’d say I’m straight.” In July 2018, Urie described himself as pansexual and stated, “I’m married to a woman and I’m very much in love with her but I’m not opposed to a man because to me, I like a person. … If a person is great, then a person is great.”

Urie married Sarah Orzechowski on April 27, 2013, after announcing their engagement in September 2011. The two had first briefly met at one of Urie’s shows, and eight months later, Hayley Williams from Paramore brought Sarah to one of Urie’s shows and re-introduced them. The song “Sarah Smiles” from the album Vices & Virtues was inspired by Orzechowski.

Urie possesses a tenor voice range that spans four octaves. His range extends D2 to C7. His voice is known for being “extensive” and “versatile,” notably after the release of “This Is Gospel” (2013).

In December 2013, Urie sang “Big Shot” in front of Billy Joel, President Obama and an audience, when Billy Joel received the Kennedy Center Honors, the nation’s highest honor for influencing American culture through the arts.

On March 24, 2014, Brendon Urie was featured on Travie McCoy’s single “Keep On Keeping On” off his upcoming album Rough Waters. Urie featured on the entirety of the song “Love in the Middle of a Firefight” for Dillon Francis’s album Money Sucks, Friends Rule. Francis called it his favorite track on the album. Urie also was featured on the Lil Dicky track “Molly” on his debut studio album Professional Rapper.

In 2015, Urie wrote a song for the SpongeBob SquarePants musical. The musical made its debut in Chicago in the summer of 2016 and returned to the Palace Theater on Broadway in the winter of 2017. For the musical, Urie wrote a song called, “Not A Simple Sponge.” Nickelodeon released a video in the spring of 2016 that includes details about the artists that they worked with to bring the score to life, including Aerosmith, John Legend, Plain White T’s and Panic! at the Disco.

In a 2016 interview with Rolling Stone, Urie stated that he has synesthesia.

In 2016, Urie was featured on the song “It Remembers” by the band Every Time I Die, from their album Low Teens.

On January 15, 2016, Panic! at the Disco released their fifth studio album, Death of a Bachelor, eventually earning the band its best sales week and first number one album.

In February 2017, Urie moved out of his home in Los Angeles, to an undisclosed location, saying that “visits and constant harassment” from fans approaching him at his house led him to feel unsafe.

On April 11, 2017, Urie announced that he would star in Cyndi Lauper’s Tony Award-winning Broadway musical, Kinky Boots, in which he played one of the lead roles, Charlie Price. He played the role from May 26, 2017, to August 6, 2017.

During late 2018, Urie began streaming regularly on popular live-streaming website Twitch.

In June 2018, Urie launched the Highest Hopes Foundation. The foundation supports other non-profit organizations that advocate for human rights and support communities who are often discriminated against. To start off the funding of this foundation, Urie donated $1 million and gave $1 from the purchase of every US ticket for the Pray for the Wicked Tour to the foundation.

On March 21, 2018, the band released two new songs “Say Amen (Saturday Night)” and “(Fuck A) Silver Lining”. At the same time, the band also announced a tour, and a new album called Pray For The Wicked.

On April 26, 2019, Urie collaborated with singer-songwriter Taylor Swift on “Me!”, which is the lead single of her seventh studio album, Lover, they wrote the song with Joel Little, Swift and Little produced the song. This song had a commercial success reaching No.2 in billboard Hot 100 and it also charted in many countries including United Kingdom, Canada, Australia and New Zealand

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