- Born
- Birth nameBek David Campbell
- Nickname
- Beck
- Height1.73 m
- Beck David Hansen is an American musician, singer, songwriter, and record producer. He rose to fame in the early 1990s with his experimental and Lo-Fi style, and became known for creating musical collages of wide-ranging genres. He has musically encompassed folk, funk, soul, hip hop, electronic, alternative rock, country, and psychedelia. He has released 14 studio albums (three of which were released on indie labels), as well as several non-album singles and a book of sheet music.- IMDb mini biography by: Bonitao
- SpouseMarissa Ribisi(April 3, 2004 - September 3, 2021) (divorced, 2 children)
- Parents
- On the song "E-Pro" from the album "Guero", he gave a co-writing credit to Beastie Boys, as the backing beat to the song came from the Beastie's "So What'cha Want". Although he was not required to give them a writing credit (he could have merely given the "contains a sample from" credit), he did so out of respect and friendship for that group.
- Tom Petty covered his song "Asshole" and Johnny Cash covered his song "Rowboat".
- During his childhood, he pretty much had no friends, which gave him time to discover and practice his musical talent.
- His mother, Bibbe Hansen, was the youngest member of Andy Warhol's entourage of stars, debuting in his unreleased 1965 film "Prison" at age 13 and appearing in a handful of other Warhol films of the mid-1960's, including Restaurant (1965) with Edie Sedgwick, before being sent to reform school, where she would remain until she was 18.
- His song "Loser" was ranked #22 in the VH1's 100 Greatest songs of the '90s.
- I'm just bursting onto the scene like a pathetic, gold-plated sperm.
- A record company is like a giant ATM machine.
- [describing the 'through-line' of his most recent recordings, 2014] A kind of shedding of skin or some sort of attempt to manifest in words and melody some kind of experience, some quality of observation. That's all it is really.
- My time is like a piece of wax to a termite that's choking on the splinters.
- I'm a Loser, Baby, so why don't you kill me?
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