Name: Brandon Richard Flowers
Birthdate: June 21,1981
City: Las Vegas, NV
Instruments: Keyboards,Vocals, Bass
Brandon Flowers was born on June 21, 1981 in Las Vegas, Nevada. He was raised in Nephi, Utah.
Flower's father worked as a bathroom fitter in Nephi. He then took a job at the Gold Coast Casino, the same hotel Flowers worked at,
when he moved back to Vegas. His mother was a homemaker.
He attributes his fashion sense to his sisters. His parents made him take piano lessons, but the person responsible for
Flower's musical education was his older brother Shane, who showed him The Smiths videos and
the U2 Rattle and Hum movie.
The Cars are a major influence for him after he listened to an old album that belonged to his older brother.
Flowers, after dropping out of college, was a bellhop for a while at the Gold Coast Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas. In 2001, He was abandoned by the first
band that he was in, a synth pop band known as Blush Response, after he declined to move with the rest of them to Los Angeles, CA.
Shortly thereafter, Flowers attended an Oasis concert, and, realizing that he wanted to make the transition from a keyboard band to a true rock band,
began searching for a guitarist. He responded to an ad that Dave Keuning had placed in the paper that listed, among other things, Smashing Pumpkins and Oasis
as influences.
The two hit it off immediately and began rehearsing. They were joined by a bassist Mark Stoermer, and later drummer Ronnie Vannucci, and they
became the Killers. Although primarily a vocalist and keyboardist, Flowers plays bass guitar live in concerts for the song "For Reasons Unknown".
