Birth Name: Ian Robert Astbury
Place of Birth: Heswall, Cheshire, England
Date of Birth: May 14, 1962
Ethnicity: English, Scottish
Ian Astbury is an English singer and songwriter. He is the lead singer of the rock band The Cult.
Ian is the son of Marion (Lindsay) and Robert Astbury, a merchant seaman. He grew up in Merseyside, Liverpool, Glasgow, and later moved with his family to Canada.
Ian has stated, when asked if he traveled a lot growing up:
Yeah, I never had a real sense of identity in terms of cultural identity. My mother was Scots, my father was from Birkenhead, Merseyside area. And I was growing up in North America as well. Cultural identity or a sense of nationalism, maybe you can define it by language and ethnicity, but outside of that not really. So I just made it up as I went along.
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