American singer-songwriter and musician Michael Stipe was born on January 4, 1960. The fact that he was the lead singer and lyricist for the alternative rock band R.E.M. makes him most famous.
He has a following thanks to his unique theatrical appearance, original words, and vocal range.
Stipe is renowned for both his peculiar voice and his early career’s “mumbling” style. In the middle of the 1980s, Stipe started employing “wailing, keening, arching vocal rhythms,” which R.E.M. author David Buckley compared to Celtic folk musicians and Muslim muezzins.
He was in charge of R.E.M.’s visual aspect, frequently selecting album art and directing several of the band’s music videos. Outside the music industry, he owns and oversees the film production companies C-00 and Single Cell Pictures.
Michael Stipe’s top songs
- No Time for Love Like Now
- In the Sun
- The Way You Dream
- These Days
- Rio Grande
- I’ll Give You My Skin
- Broken Promise
- Lo que hay es lo que vez
- Everything’s Coming Undone
- I Have Seen Trouble
- Your Capricious Soul
- Drive to the Ocean
- Losing My Religion
- Kid Fears
- Your Ghost
- Drive
- It’s the End of the World as We Know It (and I Feel Fine)
- Fall on Me
- Future, If Future
- You Are The Everything
- Dancing on the Lip of a Volcano
- Orange Crush
- Everybody Hurts
Michael Stipe awards
- Independent Spirit Award for Best First Feature
2000 · Being John Malkovich - Independent Spirit John Cassavetes Award
2019 · En el séptimo día - PGA Vision Award for Theatrical Motion Pictures
2000 · Being John Malkovich
