The American-Scottish Brian Molko (born December 10, 1972 in Brussels as the younger one of two boys) is a vocalist, bassist and guitarist with the band Placebo.
As his father was an itinerant banker, Molko travelled frequently as a child, living in Lebanon, Liberia and Luxembourg.
In 1990 he attended Goldsmiths College in London, where he studied drama.
His Scottish born-again Christian mother and his father tried to pull him in different directions in his formative years in the hope of making him becoming like them. But the only result they got from him was totally the opposite as he forged his own identity trying to escape from their educational, family and religious pressures, and became the nail-polish, lipstick and eyeliner-wearing, androgynous, transvestite, drug taking musician everyone knows about.
He formed Ashtray Heart with Stefan Olsdal; eventually they formed Placebo together with drummer Robert Schultzberg, who soon was replaced by Steve Hewitt
His musical influences were and are Sonic Youth, PJ Harvey, Nick Drake and The Pixies. placebo released their first self-titled album in 1994, though it never really achived mainstream success however placebo soon became rock press superstars as brians outlandish behaviour gained them notoriety placebo released 36 degrees, come home and the now legendary nancy boy, that did have mainstream chart success.
placebo next released 'without you im nothing' some critics would argue that this was their best work to date. without you im nothing its title track was later recorded as a duet with veteran of glitter rock David Bowie. some time circa this brian and stefan oldsfal starred as fictional band 'the venus in furs' in his rock biopic 'velvet goldmine' alongside christain bale and ewan mcgregor. they also covered t-rexs '20th century boy' on the soundtrack to the film.
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