Sean Lennon Biography

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Sean Taro Ono Lennon (aka Sean Ono Lennon, born October 9, 1975) is a British-American singer, songwriter, musician and actor. Being the son of musicians and peace activists John Lennon and Yoko Ono, he is of Irish, English and Japanese descent.Sean Lennon was born in New York City on October 9, 1975 (his father`s 35th birthday). Kyoko Chan Cox and Julian Lennon are his half-siblings. After Sean`s birth, John became a house husband, doting on his young son until his murder in 1980. Sean 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. He later attended Columbia University, though only for three semesters before dropping out to focus on his music career.

His debut into the music world came at the age of six, reciting a story on his mother`s 1981 album Season of Glass. From childhood into his teen years Sean continued to collaborate with his mother, contributing vocals and receiving production credit on her solo albums It`s Alright (I See Rainbows), Starpeace and Onobox. At sixteen Sean co-wrote the song "All I Ever Wanted" with Lenny Kravitz for his 1991 album Mama Said. By 1995 Sean had formed the band IMA (with Sam Koppelman and Timo Ellis) to play alongside his mother on her album Rising. Sean also made appearances in film, featured in the cast of Michael Jackson`s 1988 Moonwalker and portraying a teenager experiencing visions of various MC Escher paintings in Sony`s 1990 promotional short-film Infinite Escher.

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