Biography of Jeff Buckley

During his lifetime, he released only one album, which at first was a modest success, but later entered the list of Greatest Albums of All Time, compiled by the aforementioned publication. Jeff Buckley was born in the California city of Anaheim on November 17. Inheriting the talent from his father, the boy nevertheless had only once seen with her parent.

This happened when Jeff was eight years old, and shortly after that meeting, Tim Buckley died of an overdose of drugs. However, musical abilities were transmitted to the boy from his mother, who professionally played the piano and cello. With her, he was engaged in house singing, and later, finding a guitar in his grandmother's chuulan, he undertook to master this tool. At the age of 12, Buckley definitely decided that he would become a professional musician, and on this occasion he was soon awarded a full -fledged electric guitar - a real black "Les Paul".

In adolescence, Jeff played in the school jazz-bend, but at the same time showed interest in such styles as progressive and fusion. He entered the Hollywood Musical Institute, but studied there for only a year and later spoke out that the time was wasted. The next few years Bacley interrupted, working in various groups on the second roles. Basically, he played the guitar, and if he once used a voice, then only as a backing vocal.

He treated the style of his employers without any bias and, with the same zeal, was taken for jazz, funk, classic rock, rhythm end-blinh or rangi. In the beginning of the GO, in search of new opportunities, Jeff moved to New York, but if it was tight with work here, then new horizons were opened in terms of creativity and expansion of the horizons when he met a prominent performer of the style of Pakistan Nusrat Fatech Ali Khan.

A little later, Bacley returned to California for a while, where his father’s former manager Herb Cohen invited him to record a demo. And although some things from that film later got to the debut album, the fact of the appearance of the probe did not advance Jeff to the real start of his career. Finding himself again in New York, Buckley spoke at the concert of his father’s memory, and that evening he made his debut on the stage as a real vocalist.

And although promoters proposed using this event to promote Jeff as a solo artist, he refused, because he did not want his name to be associated with his parent, and chose to go his own way. Left alone, Buckley began to actively spud the small sites of Nizhny Manhattan, and his favorite place became the Sin-E cafe. Be that as it may, the audience was delighted at his concerts, and after some time the gate of show business seriously became interested in them.

In the summer, the competition began for the promising artist between the labels, and in the same fall, Jeff signed a millions of albums with Columbia Records. Soon, the musician was already working in the studio, but his official debut on the label was the Minnel Live At Sin-E, which Jeff paid tribute to the days spent in his favorite cafe. The full -fledged longpley, recorded with the producer Andy Wallace, went out in August.

As one of the critics expressed quite accurately, this work was the album "Led Zeppelin", written by an ambitious folkster with a love of lounge jazz. And although most of the songs in the Grace track list were originals, Lenard Cohen Caver "Hallelujah" was most popular. The sales of the record at first went rather sluggishly, but many eminent musicians Plant, Dylan, Bowie spoke out in her support, and over time the album went to platinum lines.

The next one and a half years went on travel, after which Bakli began to slowly prepare material for the second full -length. Unfortunately, it was not possible to bring the work begun to the end due to a tragic case. On the evening of May 27, Jeff, who was at that time in Memphis, went for a walk along the river. Suddenly he wanted to swim, and he climbed into the water dressed.

And although then the examination did not find traces of alcohol and drugs in his body, the musician drowned. A year after his death, the sketches for the second album were published on the disk "Sketches for My Sweetheart the Drunk", and at the beginning of the century several other archival collections came out. Last Update