Brian Wilson

Brian Wilson, who left us in June 2025, remains for me the clearest proof that pop music can be high art. He heard symphonies where others heard surf tunes, stacking harmonies into architectures nobody had attempted, all while privately fighting struggles that would have silenced most people for good. What moves me is not just the genius but the fragility wrapped around it; the man who gave the world its sunniest sounds was often drowning. That he returned to the stage and accepted honors like the Kennedy Center tribute feels like one of music's great redemption arcs. Every summer harmony I hear still carries his fingerprints, and I suspect it always will.

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Name (English)

Brian Wilson

Name (Japanese)

ブライアン・ウィルソン

Reading

ぶらいあん・うぃるそん

Born

June 20, 1942 – June 11, 2025

Origin

Inglewood, California, United States

Occupation

singer / singer-songwriter / composer / songwriter / record producer

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Gemini / Horse

High school

Hawthorne High School

University

El Camino College

Awards & achievements

• 2005 MusiCares Person of the Year
• Kennedy Center Honors
• 2005 Grammy Award for Best Rock Instrumental Performance
• 2013 Grammy Award for Best Historical Album
• Grammy Awards

• Official sitehttps://www.brianwilson.com/
• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/brianwilsonlive/
• Xhttps://x.com/BrianWilsonLive
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian%20Wilson
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%96%E3%83%A9%E3%82%A4%E3%82%A2%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%82%A6%E3%82%A3%E3%83%AB%E3%82%BD%E3%83%B3
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q313013

Tags

• California
• singer
• singer-songwriter
• composer

Last updated

November 2, 2026

Only publicly available facts are listed; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. Base data was compiled from Wikidata from June 2026 onward; ages are recalculated daily and deaths are checked against Wikidata on an ongoing basis. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.