Before Panic!
At The Disco would crack the Billboard 200 with 5 Top 10 Hits and the Billbaord 100's
Top 10 with singles High Hopes in 2019 and I Write Sings Not Tragedies in 2006.
Before Brendon Urie would clock in 2.2 Million followers on Twitter 4.3 Million followers
on Instagram.
Before Panic!
At The Disco would disband leaving Brendon as the only remaining member of the group
and he would team up as a vocalist with Lil Dicky on Molly and Taylor Swift with ME!
It's been over a decade since the highshool band went from covering Blink 182 hits to
finding their own theatrical style as Panic!
At The Disco and would burst onto the scene inspiring an entire generation of music fans
and singers.
In fact Halsey grew up idolizing the group having attended as many as 20 of their shows.
Believe it or not, but in my first year of University I was a die hard Panic!
At The Disco fan and Lying Is The Most Fun was a song between me and this girl whose
now getting married.
I'm getting off topic!
Let me know your favorite Panic song in the comments down below.
The four members have since disbanded leaving Brendon Urie as the only remaining member.
The dude isn't slowing down have landed Panic!
Their 2nd No.1 hit single since their initial debut.
Even for the super fans out there we've unearthed some never before reported on information
about Brendon's early years, including a little side hustle he held down as a drug delivery
man.
Not bad street cred for a dude who grew up mormon.
What's going on guys?
It's your boy Michael McCrudden documenting the life and career of Brendon Urie prior
to fame, here for you on Before They Were Famous.
There were actually quite a few of you guys who requested this video.
It's been a while since we've done any pop acts.
I guess we did Blackpink not so long ago, also Halsey & a Billie Eilish EPIC.
Of course you guys gotta let us know who is next & I'll see you guys after the intro.
Brendon Boyd Urie was born on April 12th, 1987 in St. George, Utah and raised in Summerlin,
Nevada just outside of Las Vegas with his family relocating there when he was just two
years old.
He is the youngest child of his family and has
four older half brothers and sisters.
He was raised in an extremely religious household with his parents members of the Church of
Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, aka Mormon.
At 17 he decided that he didn't share his family beliefs a went his own way which for
a while created some tension for him at home.
His maternal grandmother, who was from Hawaii, was of Portuguese, Native Hawaiian, and English
descent.
He's got other ancestry which includes English, Scottish, Irish, German, Welsh, and Danish.
He attended Palo Verde High School in Las Vegas and went to school with super babe Arianna
Celeste but she was a year or two older.
Brendon was bullied in high school by and was the victim of homophobia and his nickname
was actually the F word.
Throughout Brendon's years of success his sexuality had always been called into question
and during the early years of his career he classified himself as straight, later admitting
that he experimented with other dudes at a young age.
He had his first make out session with a girl named Brittany at 12 years old in a game of
seven minutes in heaven.
Around the same age he also had a pretty embarrassing moment at school one day.
He also struggled to stay focused at school due to an undiagnosed case of ADHD.
There were two things that Brendon became pretty obsessed with, music and making money.
Let's start with money.
The Church would give him off jobs but these wouldn't pay a lot and typically it would
end up being charity work.
His dad would give him work in construction and he started picking up his own side jobs.
By 15, he wanted to make some real cash and began doing deliveries for local dealers.
He also would sell his parents medication for some extra cash.
As for music, He idolized Freddie Mercury.
Has since gotten a Frank Sinatra Tattoo in honour of him being such a great inspiration
over his career.
He also cites Tom DeLonge and David Bowie as other strong musical influences.
At school Brendon befriended Brent Wilson in guitar class.
Brent had a Blink 182 cover band going with two dudes named Ryan Ross and Spencer Smith
from another high school.
Ryan Ross was initially the lead singer and Brendon auditioned to be the guitarist but
once they heard his vocals Ryan was demoted.
Young Brendon was oozing with talent, the man possesses a four-octave tenor vocal range
and in addition to his singing abilities, he also plays multiple instruments including
the accordion, bass, cello, drums, guitar, keyboard, organ, piano and trumpet.
The band were still in high school when recorded their demo graduating in 2005.
Brendon's parents were pretty insistent that he attend college in Arizona.
When he refused, they kicked him out of their house and he was forced to get a job at Tropical
Smoothie to afford an apartment which became the bands practice space.
Back in 2005 the hottest songs on the charts were Kanye West's Gold digger, 50 Cent's Candy
Shop, Green Days Boulevard of Broken Dreams and fellow Las Vegas natives The Killers had
hit it big with Mr. Brightside.
Having a hard time making contacts in Las Vegas where the local scene was mostly hard
core metal the boys took to the internet.
There was another band on the scene that was about to explode by the name of Fall Out Boy.
Sensing a similarity in taste and someone who would understand Panic's!
Theatrical style they reached out to Pete Wentz via social media site Live Journal sending
him their demo which included tracks "Time to Dance", "Nails for Breakfast, Tacks for
Snacks" and "Camisado"
Pete Wentz liked what he heard and drove out to Las Vegas to jam with the group.
During that short visit he signed them to his label Decaydance Records.
From there they moved out to College Park Maryland and got to work recording their first
album "A Fever You Can't Sweat Out" was released in September 2005.
This album contains one of "Panic at the Disco's!" most well known song, "I Write Sins Not Tragedies."
Despite a slow start out the gate the album would become a commercial success, I remember
buying a copy myself.
The song ‘I Write Sins Not Tragedies’ reached the top 10 in the US and picked up
an MTV Video Music Award in 2006.
Things blew up from there, despite having never performed a show the band would embark
on a stadium tour with Nothing Rhymes With Circus Tour.
Speaking on this Brendon stated.
“I'm a Ritalin kid, and I've always been very outgoing.
I don't have a problem performing in front of five thousand people.”
During all this success the first member of the group to exit or get kicked out of the
band was Bassist Brent Wilson.
Ryan Ross left the band in 2009 citing creative differences.
More albums would follow including “Vices & Virtues”, and “Too Weird to Live, Too
Rare to Die!”.
After all the band members left one by one the final being Spencer Smith, Brendon became
the only original member left in the band.
He released the fifth album on his own named, “Death of a Bachelor” in 2016.
Currently, he tours under the name, “Panic! at the Disco” with touring members making
up the band.
In 2013, the Las Vegas Tropical Smoothie location he worked at reached out to him via Twitter.
We are proud of you @BrendonUrie @PanicAtTheDisco Good luck tonight at #HolidayHavoc all #Vegas
#TropicalSmoothie employees
That's when you know you've made it!
He married Sara Orzechowski on April 27,2013 he later came out as Pansexual.
Speaking on this more recently he's had this to say.
I dunno if it matters but for those wondering,
Pansexual is as Defined: the sexual, romantic or emotional attraction towards people regardless
of their sex or gender identity.