Trent Reznor

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American musician, lead singer for "Nine Inch Nails." Reznor began studying piano when he was five years old and later taught himself to play both the tuba and saxophone. When his parents divorced in 1970, he went to live with his maternal grandparents. He attended Allegheny College in Pennsylvania where he studied computer engineering before moving to Cleveland in 1987. There he worked with several bands, finally achieving minor fame with the group, "Problems." In 1988, he formed his own band, "Nine Inch Nails (NIN)," and although their first album, "Industrial Nation," was never released, their second effort, "Pretty Hate Machine," 1990, was quite successful. Using his own feelings of alienation and his memories of being an "outsider" as a child, he channeled his own pain into the music, resulting in a product that, although controversial, is considered quite memorable. Always restless, he kept personal control himself of all the writing and production. Reznor and his manager, John Malm, formed their own record label, "Nothing Records," in 1992 and released "Broken," for which Reznor received his first Grammy. He won his second Grammy in 1996 for "Happiness in Slavery." He produced the soundtrack for Oliver Stone’s film, "Natural Born Killers," an imaginative but disturbing mix of music and dialogue. Reznor had a brief affair with Courtney Love, musician Kurt Cobain’s widow, during the mid-1990s. Reznor married Filipino-American singer-songwriter Mariqueen Maandig, born 5 April 1981, in October 2009. They have four children: sons Lazarus Echo Reznor (born 10 October 2010), Balthazar Venn Reznor (born 31 December 2011), a third son whose name has not been revealed (born 1 November 2015), and daughter Nova Lux Reznor (born December 2016). Link to Wikipedia biography