Courtney Taylor-Taylor

Courtney Taylor-Taylor Musical Artist - Born July 20, 1967 in Portland, Oregon, USA

Birth Name Courtney Alan Taylor

Mini Bio (1) In 1994, Courtney Taylor-Taylor formed "The Dandy Warhols" in Portland, Oregon. After one independent record, the band was signed to Capitol Records. They quickly became media and film-music darlings finding favor in the U.S. indie scene as well as major pop success abroad.

In 2000, Taylor-Taylor directed and appeared in his short film "The End Of The Old As We Knew It" which had its debut at the 2001 Sundance Film Festival. The film features Ione Skye, Donovan, Kirsty Hume and Scott Weiland. The history of The Dandy Warhols was captured by Ondi Timoner in her 2004 Sundance Grand Jury Award-winning documentary film Dig! (2004).

- IMDb Mini Biography By: Tsunami Entertainment

Spouse (1) Lockett Albritton (22 December 2007 - present)

Personal Quotes (1) I haven't moved on past self-loathing and self-doubt. If you move past those things, you're done, you're Sting. Sting Collins.

Courtney A. Taylor (born July 20, 1967), known as Courtney Taylor-Taylor, is an American singer-songwriter from Portland, Oregon. He is the lead singer and guitarist of alternative rock band The Dandy Warhols, a band he co-founded. Taylor-Taylor has written the majority of the band's songs.

Taylor-Taylor has co-written a graphic novel entitled One Model Nation, about a fictional 1970's German krautrock band. It was released in 2009. This was accompanied by a studio album titled Totalwerks, Vol. 1 (1969–1977), a fake greatest hits album by the fictional band, released in 2012.

Personal life Taylor-Taylor informally added the second "Taylor" to his last name around 1999. On the issue of his double-barrelled surname, Taylor-Taylor has said: "There have been so many wonderful explanations that I would hate to stop that by addressing it. It's wonderfully silly and fun so let's keep it that way". Taylor-Taylor has also said: "I was just tripping on the 'my parents are still married' thing. Basically, when my friend Gina Williams started dating my other friend Kevin Williams, they decided to hyphenate their names. So she started calling herself Gina Williams-Williams, and then I became Courtney Taylor-Taylor".

Like his cousin and bandmate Brent DeBoer, Taylor-Taylor is of Dutch ancestry.

As the chief songwriter for "Bohemian Like You", Taylor-Taylor earned approximately 1.5 million US dollars in royalties for Vodafone's use of the song in television commercials in the telecommunications company's native United Kingdom (and other territories Vodafone operate in, including Australia and Greece) in late-2001. With part of these earnings, he purchased a quarter-of-a-city block and turned it into a complex with space for recording, film editing, and web design.

On December 22, 2007, Taylor-Taylor married long-time girlfriend Lockett Albritton at the Columbia Gorge Hotel in Hood River, Oregon. Lockett Taylor is a yoga practitioner and instructor. On February 1, 2010, she gave birth to their first child, a son, Ajax.