Glenn Branca died On May 13, at the age of 69, the American guitarist and composer Glenn Branca died. It is reported by Billboard . Glenn Branca was born in 1948 in Harrisberg (Pennsylvania), studied at college in a nearby city of York, then at the Theater Department of the Emerson College in Boston, where in 1975 he created the experimental theater The Bastard Theater . In the late 1970s in New York, he founded the Nou-Weive group Theoretical Girls , played the Guitar Trio Rice Chatem.