Brandon Flowers

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orn on June 21, 1981 in Las Vegas, Brandon Richard Flowers is the

youngest of six children. Having grown up in the small town of Nephi,

Utah, his best chances of getting into music were the cassettes given to

him by his older brother, Shane. However, during Brandon's junior year

in high school, the Flowers family returned to Las Vegas. While playing

in various keyboard bands as side hobbies (most notably the failed band

Blush Response), Brandon worked as a bellhop at the Gold Coast and

Caesar's Palace hotels. In 2002, abandoned by Blush Response, Brandon

attended an Oasis concert and was inspired to dedicate his musical

career to a full-fledged rock band. Later that year, he responded to a

scouting ad submitted to a local Vegas newspaper by Dave Keuning and the

two began writing songs almost immediately. Enter Mark Stoermer and

Ronnie Vannucci, long-time admirers of Brandon and Dave's early efforts,

who struck up a friendship with the aspiring rockers and completed the

musical quartet that brought new-found glory home to Las Vegas: the

Killers. The rest, as they say, is history...