Brian Wilson

Brian Douglas Wilson (born June 20, 1942, in Hawthorne, California) is an American pop musician, best known as a founding member of and the main producer, composer, and arranger for The Beach Boys. Alth

Brian Douglas Wilson (born June 20, 1942, in Hawthorne, California) is an American pop musician, best known as a founding member of and the main producer, composer, and arranger for The Beach Boys. Although changing trends in music sometimes rendered Wilson's earlier work unfashionable, his reputation has since been restored and he is now widely acknowledged as one of the most significant and innovative popular music composers of the 20th century. He is widely considered by many to be a musical and artistic genius who was ahead of his time in many respects.

Wilson showed an early talent for music and quickly developed into a highly skilled singer, songwriter, arranger and musician, despite almost total deafness in his right ear.