30 Brilliant Facts About Brendon Urie You Might Have Missed Before

Brendon Urie, world renowned as the lead vocalist of Panic! at the Disco, is an American singer and songwriter. He is also the only original member of the pop rock band formed in 2004 in Las Vegas, Nevada. He is famous for his expansive four octave tenor vocal range. He revealed that he has been diagnosed with ADHD and has been on medication since his young age, as he wants to be open about his mental health with his fans. Here are some really interesting facts about the musician that will make you love him more:

 
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1.  He launched the Highest Hopes Foundation in June 2018, with the aim to support other non-profit organizations that advocate human rights.
2.  He donated $1 million as a start off to the foundation’s funding, and gave $1 from the purchase of every US ticket for the Pray for the Wicked Tour to the foundation.
3.  In December 2013, Urie sang "Big Shot" in front of Billy Joel, President Obama and an audience, when Billy Joel received the Kennedy Center Honors.
4.  In the year 2008, Urie sang the chorus of a song for the Coca-Cola Company, called "Open Happiness," which also features Patrick Stump, Travis McCoy, Cee-Lo Green, and Janelle Monáe.
5.  He was also featured as an elated news reporter in the music video for the song, which was released on July 16, 2009.
6.  Brendon Boyd Urie was born on April 12, 1987 to Boyd Urie and Grace Urie in St. George, Utah. He has four siblings.
7.  Through his mother’s side, he is of about one quarter Polynesian descent from Hawaii, while he is American through his father’s side.
8.  He was actually raised in an LDS family, but left the faith when he was 17 years old, due to displeasure with the church and not believing in its ideology.
9.  When he was around 2 years old, his family moved from Utah to Las Vegas, Nevada. There, he attended the Palo Verde High School, with his four elder siblings.
10.  During his high school days, he described himself as a “Spaz” and also claimed in an interview that there was one student who would always bully him.


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11.  It was in Palo Verde High School, that he met future Panic! bassist Brent Wilson during his guitar class.
12.  Wilson was already a member of Panic! at the Disco, and since they needed a replacement guitarist, he asked Urie to try out.
13.  After joining the band, he started working at Tropical Smoothie Café, in order to pay his band's rent for their practice space.
14.  While working at the Café, he would often sing for his customers, ranging from Scorpions songs to W.A.S.P. 80s anthems, which were usually good for tips.
15.  Initially, Urie tried out as the lead guitarist for Panic! at the Disco. However, during a band rehearsal, he filled in for Ryan Ross, the original lead singer.
16.  The other members of the band, were highly impressed with Urie’s vocal abilities, and decided to have him as their lead singer. In the year 2004, he officially joined the band as the lead singer, and the next year, the band released “A Fever You Can’t Sweat Out.”
17.  For the second album “Pretty. Odd.,” Brendon also took up the lyrical responsibility of two tracks - "I Have Friends in Holy Spaces" and "Folkin' Around."
18.  Around this time, he also wrote "New Perspective" for the soundtrack to the motion picture “Jennifer's Body.” He also started taking up other projects.
19.  Following the departure of Jon Walker and Ryan Ross from the band, their third album was released on March 22, 2011.
20.  The founding drummer Spencer Smith left the band in 2015, and bassist Dallon Weekes became touring member, making Urie as the only member of the official lineup.


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21.  On June 6, 2022, Panic! At The Disco announced their seventh studio album "Viva Las Vengeance," and Urie released the title single along with announcing a tour.
22.  He provided vocals on the songs "What a Catch, Donnie" and "20 Dollar Nose Bleed" from Fall Out Boy's 2008 album, “Folie à Deux.”
23.  He appears in a dog suit, in the Gym Class Heroes video for the song "Clothes Off!!" alongside former Panic! at the Disco band members Ryan Ross, Spencer Smith and Jon Walker.
24.  In the year 2010, Urie and Smith appeared in Butch Walker's music video "Pretty Melody", appearing as ninjas. They also appeared in Butch Walker's Panic! at Butch Walker's, a parody in which Walker is a psychotic homicidal cannibal, and Brendon is his next meal.
25.  For the fourth album “Too Weird to Live, Too Rare to Die!” of Panic! at the Disco, he won the "Best Vocalist" at the Alternative Press Music Awards on July 21, 2014.
26.  He first met his wife Sarah Orzechowski briefly in one of his shows in the year 2008. The met again after 8 months in another show, and started dating in 2009.
27.  The couple got engaged in September 2011, and tied the knot on April 27, 2013. The song "Sarah Smiles" from the album “Vices & Virtues” was inspired by Orzechowski.
28.  He was featured in the song "Love in the Middle of a Firefight" from Dillon Francis's album “Money Sucks, Friends Rule.” The track is said to be Francis’s favorite from the album.
29.  He also appeared in the song "It Remembers" from the album “Low Teens” by the metalcore band Every Time I Die.
30.  In the year 2015, he wrote the song “Not A Simple Sponge,” for the “SpongeBob SquarePants musical, which made its debut in Chicago in summer of 2016.
31.  Brendon Urie Net Worth: $13 Million