Editing David Byrne (section)

==Early life and education==
David Byrne was born on May 14, 1952 in [[Dumbarton]], [[Dunbartonshire]], Scotland,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://dearscotland.com/2010/04/02/the-dumbarton-road-to-nowhere/ |title=The Dumbarton Road to Nowhere |last=Tam |first=Leo Nardo |quote=one of Scotland's most famous expats |access-date=21 December 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/4986234/David-Byrne-stay-hungry.html |title=David Byrne: stay hungry |last=Grant |first=Richard |date=16 March 2009 |work=[[The Daily Telegraph]] |location=London |quote=born in Dumbarton, Scotland (a point of pride, like his British passport)|access-date=21 December 2012}}</ref> the elder of two children born to Tom (from [[Lambhill|Lambhill, Glasgow]]) and Emma Byrne. Byrne's mother was [[Presbyterian]] and his father [[Catholic]]. Two years after his birth, the family moved to Canada, settling in [[Hamilton, Ontario]]. The family left Scotland in part because there were few jobs requiring his father's engineering skills and in part because of the tensions in the extended family caused by his parents' [[interfaith marriage]]. When Byrne was eight or nine years old they moved to [[Arbutus, Maryland]], in the United States, where his father worked as an electronics engineer at [[Westinghouse Electric Corporation]] and his mother later became a teacher.<ref>{{cite magazine| url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/qa-david-byrne-52229/| title=Q&A: David Byrne| last=Dunn| first=Jancee| magazine=[[Rolling Stone]]| date=11 August 1994| quote=I think a lot of places I lived – Glasgow; Hamilton, Ontario; and Baltimore – at the time were all industrial towns.}}</ref><ref name="bbc.co.uk">{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09vz6r1|title=BBC Radio 4 – Desert Island Discs, David Byrne|website=BBC|access-date=23 November 2018}}</ref> Byrne stated that he initially grew up speaking with a Scottish accent but adopted an American one in order to fit in at school. He later recalled "I felt like a bit of an outsider. But then I realized the world was made up of people who were all different. But we're all here."<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.carnegie.org/awards/honoree/david-byrne/ |title=2020 Great Immigrants Recipient |access-date=2022-10-12}}</ref>

Before high school, Byrne already knew how to play the guitar, accordion, and violin. He was rejected from his [[middle school]]'s choir because they said he was "off-[[Key (music)|key]] and too withdrawn". From a young age, he had a strong interest in music. His parents say that he would constantly play his [[phonograph]] from age three and he learned how to play the harmonica at age five.<ref>{{cite magazine |url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0%2C9171%2C962640-8%2C00.html |title=Rock's Renaissance Man |magazine=[[Time (magazine)|Time]] |date=27 October 1986 |access-date=5 September 2017 |url-status=deviated |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080115153738/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0%2C9171%2C962640-8%2C00.html |archive-date=15 January 2008 |df=dmy-all}}</ref> His father used his electrical engineering skills to modify a [[reel-to-reel tape recorder]] so that Byrne could make [[multitrack recording]]s.<ref name="bbc.co.uk"/>

Byrne graduated from [[Lansdowne High School]] in southwest [[Baltimore County, Maryland]]. He attended the [[Rhode Island School of Design]] (RISD) in [[Providence, Rhode Island]], during the 1970–71 term and the [[Maryland Institute College of Art]] in [[Baltimore]] during the 1971–72 term before dropping out.