Sean Taro Ono Lennon is a British American musician, songwriter, and producer, the son of John Lennon and Yoko Ono, and half-brother to Julian Lennon. Ono Lennon was born in New York City, 9 October 1975, on his father's 35th birthday. John Lennon became a stay-at-home-dad to look after Sean until John was murdered on December 8, 1980, when Sean was only five years old. Elton John is his godfather.
In October 1984, when Steve Jobs was visiting Manhattan, he attended Ono Lennon's birthday party and gave him one of the first Macintosh computers as a present. That same year, he sang "It's Alright" on Every Man Has a Woman, a tribute album to his mother. From childhood into his teen years, Ono Lennon continued to collaborate with his mother on her solo albums It's Alright, Starpeace and Onobox. At 16 Ono Lennon co-wrote the song "All I Ever Wanted" with Lenny Kravitz for his 1991 album Mama Said, and worked with Kravitz on a cover of his father's song "Give Peace a Chance" in protest of the Gulf War. By 1995 Ono Lennon had formed the band IMA to play alongside his mother on her album Rising. Over the course of his career, he has been a member of the bands Cibo Matto, The Ghost of a Saber Tooth Tiger, The Claypool Lennon Delirium and his parents' group Plastic Ono Band. He has released two solo albums: Into the Sun (1998) and Friendly Fire (2006). He has produced numerous albums for various artists, including Black Lips and the Plastic Ono Band.
From 1996 to 1999, Ono Lennon was involved in organizing the Tibetan Freedom Concerts.
October 19, 2011, Ono Lennon joined the Occupy Wall Street protests.
August 30, 2012, Ono Lennon unveiled "Artists Against Fracking" campaign.
October 16, 2013, Ono Lennon, played "Live on Earth" – an Internet-only performance – to benefit the David Lynch Foundation, which funds the teaching of Transcendental Meditation.
Of his own practice of Transcendental Meditation, in 2014, Ono Lennon said that,” It’s an exercise, really. It helps me to have about 10 percent more conscious thinking."