Singer-songwriter born in Des Moines, Iowa, on September 25, 1981, Mike Hadreas
aka Perfume Genius grew up in the suburbs of Seattle and attended art school,
when a street attack on account of his homosexuality led to hospitalization and
the abandonment of his studies. Troubled by this event, he takes refuge in
Brooklyn and works in a bar. His addiction to alcohol led him to undergo
detoxification and then to return to the family cocoon, where he took up the
piano again, having abandoned it as a teenager, and began composing and
recording his first songs. Discovered via the Inter...