Simon Le Bon-profile

Simon Le Bon
Background information
Born October 27, 1958 (age 48) Bushey, Hertfordshire, England
Instrument(s) Voice, acoustic guitar, jazz & blues harmonica, ocarina
Associatedacts Duran Duran
Simon John Charles Le Bon (born October 27, 1958) is the lead singer and lyricist of the pop/rock band Duran Duran. He was born in Bushey, Hertfordshire, England and was raised in and around London.

Upbringing
Le Bon was a member of the local church choir from a young age, but was also trained as an actor. Simon went to Pinner County Grammar School, the same high school that Elton John attended some years earlier. He worked as a theater porter at Northwick Park Hospital accident and emergency, and also auditioned for a punk band at Harrow College of Science and Technology. He appeared in a few television commercials and also in several theatre productions. He worked on a kibbutz --an Israeli collective community.-- in the Negev desert in Israel in 1978, and then returned to England to attend drama school at the University of Birmingham before meeting the fledgling band Duran Duran.