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My Take
The stage name alone, fusing America's sweetheart with its most infamous criminal, is a thesis statement, and I have always read Manson as a conceptual artist who happened to use rock music as his medium. Brian Warner built a character designed to expose the hypocrisies of the culture that condemned him, and his commitment to that persona across albums, paintings, film roles, and an autobiography is genuinely rare. He is also a deeply polarizing figure, and any honest assessment has to hold the art and the controversies in separate hands. As pure provocation-as-craft, though, few have done it with more rigor.
Overview
Brian Hugh Warner (born January 5, 1969), known professionally as Marilyn Manson, is an American rock musician. He is the lead singer and the only original member remaining of the same-titled band he founded in 1989. The band members initially created their stage names by combining the first name of an American female sex symbol, Marilyn Monroe, and the last name of a male serial killer, Charles Manson.
Summary adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
1. Profile
- Name (English)
- Marilyn Manson
- Name (Japanese)
- マリリン・マンソン
- Reading
- まりりん・まんそん
- Born
- January 5, 1969 (age 57)
- Zodiac / Chinese zodiac
- Capricorn / Rooster
- Origin
- Canton, Ohio, United States
- Blood type
- Private
- Height
- Private
- Agency
- Private
- Occupation
- actor / autobiographer / painter / composer / singer
2. Background
- Elementary school
- Private
- Junior high
- Private
- High school
- GlenOak High School
- University
- Broward College
3. Relationships
- Spouse
- Private
- Children
- Private
- Parents
- Private
- Siblings
- Private
4. Personality
Motto
Private
6. Links
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7. About this entry
Tags
- Last updated
- 2026-06-11
Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public items are marked "Private / Unknown". English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.