Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthdate
1942-06-20
Day of Death
2025-06-11
Place of Birth
Inglewood, California, USA
Brian Wilson
Biography
Brian Douglas Wilson (June 20, 1942 — June 11, 2025) was an American musician, singer, songwriter, and record producer who co-founded the Beach Boys. After signing with Capitol Records in 1962, Wilson wrote or co-wrote more than two dozen Top 40 hits for the group. He originally functioned as the band's songwriter, producer, co-lead vocalist, bassist, keyboardist, and de facto leader. Wilson was considered a major innovator in the field of music production, the principal originator of the California Sound, one of the first music producer auteurs, and the first rock producer to use the studio as its own instrument. The unusual creative control Capitol gave him over his own records effectively set a precedent that allowed other bands and artists to act as their own producers or co-producers. He was a major influence on the retrospectively-termed "sunshine pop" and Flower Power music that proceeded.
Filmography (74)
The Beach Boys
2024
Reinventing Elvis: The 68' Comeback
2023
A Grammy Salute to The Beach Boys
2023
The Day the Music Died: The Story of Don McLean's "American Pie"
2022
Brian Wilson: Long Promised Road
2021
Streetlight Harmonies
2020
My Music: A Classic Christmas
2019
The Beach Boys: Making Pet Sounds
2017
Brian Wilson at la Baloise Session
2016
The Beach Boys: A Long Promised Road - Volume 1 & 2 - 1962-1971
2016
I Hope You Dance: The Power and Spirit of Song
2015
Brian Wilson and Friends - A Soundstage Special Event
2015
Love & Mercy
2015
Brian Wilson: Songwriter 1969-1982
2014
