Jeff Buckley

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.

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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

Origin

Anaheim, California, United States

Occupation

singer-songwriter / guitarist / singer / composer / musician

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Scorpio / Horse

High school

Loara High School

• Official sitehttps://www.jeffbuckley.com
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff%20Buckley
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B8%E3%82%A7%E3%83%95%E3%83%BB%E3%83%90%E3%83%83%E3%82%AF%E3%83%AA%E3%82%A3
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q215855

Tags

• California
• singer-songwriter
• guitarist
• singer

Last updated

November 2, 2026

Only publicly available facts are listed; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. Base data was compiled from Wikidata from June 2026 onward; ages are recalculated daily and deaths are checked against Wikidata on an ongoing basis. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.