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Duncan Scott Sheik (born November 18, 1969) is an American singer-songwriter. Born in Montclair, New Jersey, Sheik’s upbringing was split between his parents’ home in South Carolina and that of his grandparents in New Jersey. His grandmother, a piano graduate of The Juilliard School, taught him to play the piano and encouraged his musical development. He graduated from Phillips Academy in 1988, after which he studied semiotics at Brown University.
Sheik began his professional musical career playing for other acts, including Liz And Liza (with Lisa Loeb and Liz Mitchell), and played on His Boy Elroy’s 1993 album. Through connections from fellow Brown alum Tracee Ellis Ross, Sheik’s music gained the attention of executives at Atlantic Records. Duncan Sheik’s eponymous debut album for Atlantic spawned the 1996 hit single “Barely Breathing” in the US, which remained on the charts for 55 straight weeks. In 1998, he was nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Male Pop Vocal Performance for “Barely Breathing.”
In addition to his work as a solo artist, he collaborates with the poet and writer Steven Sater. Together, they have written an album of art-pop songs, ‘’Phantom Moon’‘, a Broadway musical, ‘...
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Top 10 Duncan Sheik Songs
Barely Breathing
On a High
Nothing Fades
Star-Field On Red Lines
Now or Never
Wishful Thinking
She Runs Away
White Limousine
Half-Life
Land
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Top 10 Duncan Sheik Albums
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White Limousine
Daylight
Brighter/Later: A Duncan Sheik Anthology
Humming
Spring Awakening
Whisper House
Phantom Moon
Friends Again
Barely Breathing
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