By Dave Basner
On May 17th, 1965,
Trent Reznor was born in New Castle, Pennsylvania. We all know Rezner made a name for himself in
Nine Inch Nails, but here are 19 things you might not know about the rocker:
1. Trent is actually his middle name. His real first name is Michael.
2. Trent is related to
George Reznor, who in 1888, founded the heating and air conditioning manufacturing business, The Reznor Company.
3. Reznor’s first instrument was the piano, which he started to play at age five.
4. While in junior and senior high school in Western Pennsylvania, Trent learned to play the tenor sax and the tuba and was a member of the jazz band and the marching band. His band director once described him as “very upbeat and friendly”