Ian Astbury

Ian Robert Astbury was born May 14, 1962, in Heswall, Cheshire, (near Liverpool) England, to a Scottish mother Marion Lindsay(died on Ian's 17th Birthday) and an English father Robert (died 21 Feb 1990, was 58). He spent a majority of his youth living in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, where he discovered the different cultures and backgrounds of various tribes of Indigenous Peoples in southern Ontario which has featured (influenced) in many of his songs over the years.