Jeff Buckley | A Greatest Singer
Jeffrey Scott Buckley (November 17, 1966 – May 29, 1997), raised as Scott 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 Tim Buckley’s manager Herb Cohen, he signed with Columbia, recruited a band, and recorded what would be his only studio album, Grace, in 1994,More info:wiki
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#10 Jeff Buckley,More info:morrisonhotelgallery
#9 Is Tamino the heir to Jeff Buckley?,More info:independent
Few voices make you stop in your tracks. For some, it only happens once or twice in their lifetime, to hear something with a visceral, immediate power so unique that it seems otherworldly. Tamino is one of those voices.
Born Tamino Moharam Fouad, the Belgian-Egyptian artist was named after the principal character, a prince, in Mozart’s opera The Magic Flute. He’s strikingly beautiful – think Jeff Buckley with Egyptian heritage – and the 21-year-old has a soulful, languid gaze that brightens as he speaks, with an articulacy and comprehension of music that defies his age.
His debut single “Habibi” (“my love” or “sweetheart” in Arabic), received considerable airplay in Belgium before being picked up in the UK and elsewhere in Europe… likely because it sounded like nothing else in popular music. Before he’d even performed a show in the UK, record labels clamoured to win him over.
#8 Posthumous Jeff Buckley at 20: a giant, or a ghost?,More info:medium
Monday was the day I envisioned 10 years ago — a longtime future moment that was suddenly the present.
I sat alone on my sister’s quiet porch, shaded from the Memorial Day sun, scrolling through Facebook. A post from Stereogum caught my attention: It was the 20th anniversary of Jeff Buckley’s death. A long-anticipated day, but it still snuck up on me somehow. I remember where I was exactly a decade before, the day of his death’s 10th anniversary. And I remember thinking about Buckley’s legacy that day in 2007, and how it might blossom over the next decade.
Now that the future had become the present, right there on my sister’s porch, I tried assessing the last 10 years of Buckleydom. I must admit, it does not look the way I thought it would.
#7 Ranking: Every Jeff Buckley Song from Worst to Best,More info:consequenceofsound
Twenty years ago this week, the Earth was graced by what would end up being the only full-length release of a beautiful voice. Jeff Buckley’s songs can cut about as deep as the gaping hole that opened with his passing. Twenty years have seen his legacy and appreciation expand exponentially, and out of that deep respect we write.
The son of folksinger Tim Buckley and a classically trained cellist mother, music was in Buckley’s veins from day one. Yet despite his early baptism, for years the singer-songwriter struggled to find entry into the music industry. During that time, he bounced in and out of funk, metal, and reggae bands while holding down a hotel job to pay the bills. Many point to a tribute concert for his father in 1991 as the moment his career began to gain momentum.
#6 The night Jeff Buckley played Trinity Ball, after watching the Late Late,More info:irishtimes
From The Smiths at Dundalk’s Fairways Hotel to Nirvana playing the Top Hat in Dún Laoghaire and David Bowie in the Baggot Inn, there are some concerts that have become a thing of wonder.
But Jeff Buckley’s appearance at the 1992 Trinity Ball is perhaps the most mystifying of them all.
Buckley arrived in Dublin in May of that year as a complete unknown. He had no promoter, no manager, no record deal, no album to sell and had never before performed outside the US.
He had only just begun performing at Sin-é, the tiny Irish cafe in New York’s East Village where he would make his name.
It would be more than two years before his acclaimed debut album, Grace, was released. So, how did this singer from Anaheim, California – whose early death would later make him an icon – end up performing in front of oblivious students dressed in tuxedos and dinner dresses?
#5 Jeff Buckley – like his father, a gift that left too soon.Jeff Buckley – In Concert At Glastonbury 1995 – Past Daily Backstage Weekend,More info:pastdaily
Jeff Buckley in concert this week. One of those brilliant lights that streaked across the horizon, but was extinguished all too soon. Buckley had the gift – he had the voice and he had the presence. The voice, so reminiscent of his father, Tim Buckley – another brilliant figure gone way too soon, but for different reasons and under different circumstances. The tragedy of the loss of Jeff Buckley was all the more poignant because, at the time of his accidental drowning, he was rapidly becoming a household name. His only album (the only one released in his lifetime) Grace, was issued in 1994 and proclaimed by Rolling Stone to be one the “greatest singers of all time”.
#4 Home News Celebrity Deaths Jeff Buckley’s Hallelujah CELEBRITY DEATHSJeff Buckley’s Hallelujah,More info:legacy
Jeff Buckley was a songwriter, and a talented one. But his most famous and enduring recording is one that came from another pen…
Singer and guitarist Jeff Buckley would have turned 45 today, had he not drowned in 1997 when he was just 30 years old. Buckley was a songwriter, and a talented one… but his most famous and enduring recording is one that came from another pen.
“Hallelujah” was written by Leonard Cohen and released in 1984 on his album Various Positions. It was a stripped-down tune, sung with quiet emotion, and biblical references in every verse. (At least, every verse he recorded. The original recording is four verses long, though Cohen is said to have written more than 80 verses to the song.) Cohen’s “Hallelujah” made a modest showing on charts in the UK, Sweden and the Netherlands, but in most of the world, it didn’t catch on.
#3 My Hero, Jeff Buckley: How to “Organically” Build Your Music Style,More info:thelessonstudioblog.wordpress
#2 Gossip Girl’s Penn Badgley as folk icon Jeff Buckley: a role to ‘stretch out’ in,More info:theglobeandmail
Dan Algrant’s quest for his leading man was drawing a big blank. “I’d been searching the world, travelled to London twice to meet people,” said the New York-born director/screenwriter, recalling the experience. More than 100 audition tapes had been sent to the production office. James Franco was being mentioned (“because I’d been told I should be casting stars”). Rob Pattinson, too. “Everybody had an opinion.”
But by spring 2011, Algrant pretty much believed he’d never find that special someone he wanted, no … needed to play the late, lamented, now-legendary alt-folk singer Jeff Buckley. “In fact, I was ready not to make the film.” Then he watched an audition tape featuring Penn Badgley. Somehow the then-24-year-old studly star of the hit teen TV soap Gossip Girl and recently splitsville beau of the bodacious Blake Lively had gotten hold of Algrant’s script and here he was, doing this madcap scene where Buckley, young woman in tow, walks into a vinyl record store and begins a twisted a cappella reading of songs from Led Zeppelin III (“Valhalla, I am … cuh-wuh-wuh-wuh-miiiiing-uh!”).
#1 Eternal Life: Celebrating the Enduring Majesty of Jeff Buckley,More info:albumism
On the evening of May 29th, 1997, Jeff Buckley strode fully clothed into Wolf River Harbor, a slack water channel of the Mississippi River in Memphis, and disappeared, only for his body to be discovered a few days later on June 4th. He was 30 years old.
Given his status as a nascent rock star par excellence and the demise of his father (musician Tim Buckley) via a heroin overdose, the headlines seemed destined to write themselves. Lured in by the lurid fascination that compels us to feast on the gory details of a life cut short, mystery abounded as the music press sought the same narrative that had fitted his father and too many others before him.
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