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My Take
Jeff Buckley occupies a sacred corner of my listening life. One studio album, Grace, and yet I return to it more than to most artists' entire catalogs. What moves me is the combination of vulnerability and technical command: a decade of session work in Los Angeles gave him the hands, but the voice came from somewhere unteachable. His death at thirty in 1997 froze him as pure potential, which makes the existing recordings feel almost unbearably precious. I resist romanticizing early deaths, but with Buckley the myth is earned, because the music really is that singular. Every singer who attempts Hallelujah after him is, knowingly or not, chasing his ghost.
Overview
Jeffrey Scott Buckley (raised as Scott Moorhead; November 17, 1966 – May 29, 1997) was an American musician. After a decade as a session guitarist in Los Angeles, he attracted a following in the early 1990s performing at venues in the East Village, Manhattan. He signed with Columbia and released his only studio album, Grace, in 1994.
Summary adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
1. Profile
- Name (English)
- Jeff Buckley
- Name (Japanese)
- ジェフ・バックリィ
- Reading
- じぇふ・ばっくりぃ
- Born
- November 17, 1966 – May 29, 1997
- Zodiac / Chinese zodiac
- Scorpio / Horse
- Origin
- Anaheim, California, United States
- Blood type
- Private
- Height
- Private
- Agency
- Private
- Occupation
- singer-songwriter / guitarist / singer / composer / musician
2. Background
- Elementary school
- Private
- Junior high
- Private
- High school
- Loara High School
- University
- Private
3. Relationships
- Spouse
- Private
- Children
- Private
- Parents
- Private
- Siblings
- Private
4. Personality
Motto
Private
6. Links
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7. About this entry
Tags
- Last updated
- 2026-06-11
Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public items are marked "Private / Unknown". English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.