Brian was born January 5th 1969 and is an American songwriter, performer, multi-instrumentalist, actor, painter, multimedia artist, and former music journalist, you may know him better as Marilyn Manson. His stage name created by putting together Marilyn Monroe’s name with Charles Manson. He is best known for music released in the 1990’s, the albums including Antichrist Superstar and Mechanical Animals, along with his style/image led him to a negative reputation in the mainstream media. In my opinion Marilyn (or Brian) is genuine to his scene or industry, and hasn’t sold out to marketing. Marilyn has always seemed to me someone who thought outside the box and tried to keep himself outside the normal. People say he is scary and how he can be