Zach Condon (born February 13, 1986) is the lead singer and songwriter of Beirut, which he started as a solo project.
Condon was born in Albuquerque, New Mexico and grew up partly in Newport News, Virginia, and partly in Santa Fe.
When he was 14, he fell off a bridge into a dry riverbed and broke his arm. The arm would later lack mobility and grow slightly shorter than his other arm, leaving him unable to play guitar. That is one reasons why you will see him playing the ukulele in many of his songs instead, an unhappy accident that worked out quite happily for his fantastic music.
A vast range of music from around the world and his extensive traveling strongly influence Condon’s work, as one might guess from toponymic song titles such as “Gibraltar,” “Santa Fe,” and “Perth” (among many others). In recent years he has been residing in Berlin, where he partially worked on and recorded Beirut’s fifth album Gallipoli.
