Singer-songwriter born in New York 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 put it aside as a teenager, and began composing and recording his first
songs. Discovered through MySpace, he wa...