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1975-10-09 |
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Sean Taro Ono Lennon (Japanese: 小野 太郎 Hepburn: Ono Tarō?, born October 9, 1975) is an American singer and musician. He is the son of John Lennon and Yoko Ono.
Sean is of English descent on his father's side, and Japanese descent on his mother's side. Julian Lennon is his half-brother, and Kyoko Chan Cox is his half-sister. Elton John is his godfather. After Sean's birth, John Lennon became a house husband, caring for his young son until his death on December 8, 1980. Sean attended kindergarten in Tokyo and was educated at the exclusive private boarding school Institut Le Rosey in Rolle, Switzerland, and earlier at New York's private Ethical Culture Fieldston School and Dalton School. He attended Columbia University for three semesters before dropping out to focus on his music career.
In January 1984, when Steve Jobs was visiting Manhattan, he attended a party that his mother (Yoko Ono) was throwing for Lennon, and Jobs gave him one of the very first Macintosh computers.
His parents kick-started his musical career: his debut into the music world came at age five, when he recited a story on his mother's 1981 album, Season of Glass. From childhood into his teen years, Lennon continued to collaborate with his mother, contributing vocals and receiving production credit on her solo albums It's Alright, Starpeace and Onobox. At 16 Lennon co-wrote the song "All I Ever Wanted" with Lenny Kravitz for his 1991 album Mama Said. By 1995 Lennon had formed the band IMA (with Sam Koppelman and Timo Ellis) to play alongside his mother on her album Rising.
Sean also made numerous appearances in film and Television including Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997). His only child performances was in the cast of Michael Jackson's 1988 Moonwalker, and portraying a teenager experiencing visions of various M. C. Escher prints in Sony's 1990 promotional short-film Infinite Escher. He later gained fame as one of Michael Jackson's companions and frequent visitor to his Neverland Ranch.
Father John Lennon kept a jukebox full of classic 45-rpm singles for Sean in his playroom, wanting him to always have a musical environment. He kept no memorabilia or records from The Beatles around the house, though, and Sean only learned of John's former life when he saw Yellow Submarine (1968) at his babysitter's. John later gave Sean one Beatles single (title unknown), to satisfy his curiosity.
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