Biography
Jon Brion is an American composer, singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and record producer. Born on 11 December 1963 in Glen Ridge, New Jersey, he grew up in Connecticut in a musical family and performed with the bands the Excerpts, the Bats, 'Til Tuesday and the Grays before establishing himself as a producer and film composer.
Brion has scored numerous films, including Hard Eight (1996), Magnolia (1999), Punch-Drunk Love (2002), Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004), I Heart Huckabees (2004), Synecdoche, New York (2008), ParaNorman (2012), Lady Bird (2017) and Christopher Robin (2018). He received Grammy nominations for Best Score Soundtrack Album for his work on Magnolia and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.
He has also produced music for artists including Aimee Mann, Fiona Apple, Elliott Smith and Kanye West, and released the solo album Meaningless in 2001.
