Photo: Flickr user glaurent / CC BY-SA 2.0 (source: Wikimedia Commons)
My Take
Sean Lennon could have spent his life cashing the most famous surname in popular music; instead he keeps wandering into its strangest corners. Cibo Matto, the Ghost of a Saber Tooth Tiger, the Claypool Lennon Delirium — these are not career moves, they are curiosities pursued for their own sake, and I find that genuinely admirable. The comparison to his father is unwinnable, and he seems to know it, so he competes on a different axis entirely: texture, psychedelia, collaboration. The result is a body of work that rewards listeners who arrive without expectations. That takes a quieter kind of nerve.
Overview
Sean Tarō Ono Lennon (Japanese: 小野 太郎, Hepburn: Ono Tarō; born October 9, 1975) is a British and American musician. He is the son of the musical artists John Lennon and Yoko Ono and half-brother of Julian Lennon and Kyoko Cox. Over the course of his career, Lennon has been a member of the bands Cibo Matto, the Ghost of a Saber Tooth Tiger, the Claypool Lennon Delirium and his parents' group, Plastic Ono Band.
Summary adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
1. Profile
- Name (English)
- Sean Lennon
- Name (Japanese)
- ショーン・レノン
- Reading
- しょーん・れのん
- Born
- October 9, 1975 (age 50)
- Zodiac / Chinese zodiac
- Libra / Rabbit
- Origin
- Weill Cornell Medical Center, New York, United States
- Blood type
- Private
- Height
- Private
- Agency
- Private
- Occupation
- singer / composer / poet / actor / guitarist
2. Background
- Elementary school
- Private
- Junior high
- Private
- High school
- Private
- University
- Columbia University
3. Relationships
- Spouse
- Private
- Children
- Private
- Parents
- Private
- Siblings
- Private
4. Personality
Motto
Private
6. Links
Singer — see all → · Composer — see all → · More people from United States →
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.