Mark Kozelek

Mark Kozelek's music has pulled me through more rough stretches than I can count. From Massillon, Ohio, he went from Red House Painters to the singular world of Sun Kil Moon, building songs that murmur rather than shout. He renders the small details of ordinary life with just a guitar and that weathered voice, often stretching tracks far past convention. He is a divisive, prickly figure, and I won't pretend otherwise, but inside those slow, sprawling songs lives the full weight of how hard and how tender existence can be. To me he is the genuine article, an artist worth sitting with patiently.

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Name (English)

Mark Kozelek

Name (Japanese)

マーク・コズレック

Reading

まーく・こずれっく

Born

January 24, 1967 (age 59)

Origin

Massillon, Ohio, United States

Occupation

singer / actor / singer-songwriter / guitarist / record producer

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Aquarius / Goat

High school

Jackson High School

• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark%20Kozelek
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q719083

Tags

• Ohio
• singer
• actor
• singer-songwriter

Last updated

September 25, 2026

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