Jeffrey Scott Buckley, born Scott Moorhead on November 17, 1966, was an American singer, composer, and guitarist. Buckley gained a following in the early 1990s by performing cover songs at East Village and Manhattan venues such as Sin-é, while gradually focusing more on his own material after working as a studio guitarist in Los Angeles for a decade.
Buckley shared a room with actress Brooke Smith from 1990 to 1991. Buckley met artist Rebecca Moore in April 1991 during a tribute concert to his father, Tim Buckley, and the two dated until 1993.
This affair inspired his album Grace and led him to relocate permanently to New York. From 1994 to 1995, Buckley was in a relationship with Elizabeth Fraser of the Cocteau Twins.
They worked together on a duet, “All Flowers in Time Bend Towards the Sun,” which was never released. Buckley began dating musician Joan Wasser in 1994. He supposedly proposed to her just before he died.
What was Jeff Buckley singing when he died?
No one was present when Jeff Buckley died. On May 29, 1997, in Memphis, Tennessee, the singer who is now famous for his performance of Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah” went into a Mississippi River channel completely clothed.
