William Butler

About

Multi-instrumentalist for the band Arcade Fire who plays bass, synth, guitar, and percussion. The band's song "The Suburbs" has accumulated more than 170 million streams on Spotify. He has also worked on movie soundtracks, like the one for Her.

Before Fame

He majored in poetry and Slavic studies at Northwestern University.

Trivia

He played on Arcade Fire's 2010 album The Suburbs, which won a Grammy Award for Album of the Year.

Family Life

He married dancer Jenny Shore in January of 2008.

Associated With

His brother is Arcade Fire frontman Win Butler.