Jeff Buckley
Folk rock, Musical Artist
1966 – 1997
Who was Jeff Buckley?
Jeffrey Scott "Jeff" Buckley, raised as Scottie Moorhead, was an American singer-songwriter and guitarist. After a decade as a session guitarist in Los Angeles, Buckley amassed a following in the early 1990s by playing cover songs at venues in Manhattan's East Village, such as Sin-é, gradually focusing more on his own material. After rebuffing much interest from record labels and his father's manager Herb Cohen, he signed with Columbia, recruited a band, and recorded what would be his only studio album, Grace, in 1994. Rolling Stone considered him one of the greatest singers of all time.
Over the following two years, the band toured widely to promote the album, including concerts in the U.S., Europe, Japan, and Australia. In 1996, they stopped touring and made sporadic attempts to record Buckley's second album in New York with Tom Verlaine as producer. In 1997, Buckley moved to Memphis, Tennessee, to resume work on the album, to be titled My Sweetheart the Drunk, recording many four-track demos while also playing weekly solo shows at a local venue. While awaiting the arrival of his band from New York, he drowned during a spontaneous evening swim, fully clothed, in the Wolf River when he was caught in the wake of a passing boat. His body was found on June 4, 1997.
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- Born
- Nov 17, 1966
Anaheim - Also known as
- Jeffrey Scott Buckley
- Buckley, Jeff
- Scott "Scotty" Moorhead
- Scotty Moorhead
- Jeffrey Scott "Jeff" Buckley
- Parents
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- Musicians Institute
- Loara High School
- Lived in
- Anaheim
- Died
- May 29, 1997
Memphis
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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