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Perfume Genius

Singer-songwriter born in Des Moines, Iowa, on September 25, 1981, Mike Hadreas aka Perfume Genius grew up in the suburbs of Seattle and attended art school, when a street attack on account of his homosexuality led to hospitalization and the abandonment of his studies. Troubled by this event, he takes refuge in Brooklyn and works in a bar. His addiction to alcohol led him to undergo detoxification and then to return to the family cocoon, where he took up the piano again, having abandoned it as a teenager, and began composing and recording his first songs. Discovered via the Inter...