1984Winner
Best Performance
Stop Making Sense
Chris Frantz
Actor
Fort Campbell, Kentucky, USA
May 8, 1951
Biography
Charton Christopher Frantz is an American musician, producer and author. Born in Fort Campbell, Kentucky, Frantz attended the Rhode Island School of Design in the early 1970s, where he met musicians David Byrne and Tina Weymouth. Byrne and Frantz formed a band called the Artistics, which eventually transformed into the acclaimed new wave band Talking Heads. Weymouth, then Frantz's girlfriend, joined the band in 1975, and the two married in 1977. In 1981, Frantz and Weymouth formed Tom Tom Club, who achieved chart success with the influential single Genius of Love. Frantz was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame with Talking Heads in 2002. Frantz's memoir, Remain in Love, was published in 2020.
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Representative Works
Awards and Honors
Critical Favorites
1986Nominee
Best Performance
True Stories
2001Nominee
Best Performance
25 Years of Punk
Career Highlights
2005Highlight
Best Performance
Stranger: Bernie Worrell on Earth
1976Highlight
Best Performance
The Blank Generation
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Stop Making Sense
True Stories