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I got the pleasure of meeting David Byrne and having a lunch with him at Affrah Mediterranean in Richardson, TX in the late 2000s. It was near the end of my stint at Hanson Robotics for the exhibition "Souls & Machines" at the Reina Sofia Museum in Madrid, Spain. He voiced one of our robots singing. He was, without a question, the most down to earth celebrity I have met to this day. I left that lunch struck how genuinely kind and encouraging he was, even to me as a lowly intern early in my career. I try to channel a bit of him at that lunch anytime I’m working with anyone cutting their teeth on anything new. We all need a little bit of kindness and encouragement at that stage.


That's a serious dream come true. Guy is a musical genius. His music(bandmates included) got me through some hard times. At one point I had every cd he ever made and it was almost everything I listened to.


Would love to hear/see more of your work nearly 20 years later (btw, big fan of the Reina Sofia Museum – to work with Bowie and exhibit at the Reina Sofia sounds like a dream)!




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