Trent Reznor

Trent Reznor  (born May 17, 1965) is an American singer, songwriter, musician, record producer, and film score composer.  He is best known as the founder, primary musician, and principal songwriter of the industrial rock project Nine Inch Nails, which he founded in 1988 and of which he was the sole official member until adding long-time collaborator Atticus Ross as a permanent member in 2016.  His first release under the Nine Inch Nails name, the 1989 album Pretty Hate Machine, was a commercial and critical success.  He has since released eight Nine Inch Nails studio albums.  Reznor and Ross scored the David Fincher films The Social Network (2010), The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011), and Gone Girl (2014), winning the Academy Award for Best Original Score for The Social Network and the Grammy Award for Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media for The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.  In 1997, Reznor appeared in Time’s list of the year’s most influential people, and Spin magazine described him as “the most vital artist in music”.  (More from Wikipedia)