Jeffrey Scott Buckley (raised as Scott Moorhead) was an American musician.
After a decade as a session guitarist in Los Angeles, Buckley amassed a moderate following in the early 1990s by performing cover songs at venues in East Village, Manhattan, such as Sin-é, while gradually focusing more on his own material. After rebuffing interest from record labels and Herb Cohenthe manager of his father, singer Tim Buckley he signed with Columbia, recruited a band, and recorded what would be his only studio album, Grace, in 1994.
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 called Barristers, a bar located in downtown Memphis. On May 29, 1997, while awaiting the arrival of his band from New York, Buckley drowned during a spontaneous evening swim, fully clothed, in the Wolf River, a tributary of the Mississippi, where he was caught in the wake of a passing boat; his body was found on June 4.
Since his death, there have been many posthumous releases of his material, including a four-track collection of demos and studio recordings of his unfinished second album My Sweetheart the Drunk, expansions of Grace, and the Live at Sin-é EP.
Chart success for Buckley came posthumously; with his cover of Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah", Buckley attained his first number one on Billboard's Hot Digital Songs in March 2008 and reached number two in the UK Singles Chart that December. Rolling Stone included Grace in its list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time and included Buckley in their list of the greatest singers.
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Birth Name: Jeffrey Scott Buckley
Born: November 17, 1966
Died: May 29, 1997 (at age of 30)
From: Anaheim, California, U.S.
Parents: Tim Buckley
Genre(s):
Alternative rock,
folk rock,
blues
Instrument(s):
Vocals,
guitar,
piano,
keyboards,
dulcimer,
percussion
Occupation(s):
Musician,
singer,
songwriter
Active From: 1990-1997