Stephin Merritt is tagged as: indie, singer-songwriter, indie pop, stephin merritt, lo-fi Stephin Merritt (born 1966 in New York City, United States) is a singer-songwriter. He has created and played principal roles in the following bands: The Magnetic Fields, The 6ths, The Gothic Archies, and Future Bible Heroes. He briefly used the name The Baudelaire Memorial Orchestra as an attribution for a song written for Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events, entitled “Scream and Run Away”. Further music was recorded for the audiobook versions of the series and is attributed to The Gothic Archies. Under his own name, he recorded and released the soundtracks to the films Eban and Charley and Pieces of April. The soundtrack to the late Nickelodeon show The Adventures of Pete & Pete featured many of his songs. He and director Chen Shi-Zheng have collaborated on three pieces of musical theatre; Orphan of Zhao (2003), Peach Blossom Fan (2004), and My Life as a Fairy Tale (2005). Select tracks from these works have been released on Nonesuch Records under the title Showtunes. Merritt is openly gay. His lyrics are known for bending and blurring the gender line; examples include the song When My Boy Walks Down the Street, sung by a male vocalist, which contains the lyric “and he’s going to be my wife”. He is fascinated with ... Read More About Stephin Merritt Biography... Send Stephin Merritt ringtones to your cell |
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