Adam Schlesinger

Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Gender

Male

Origin

United States

Active from

1967-10-31

Active to

2020-04-01

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

1,927

Total plays

8,779

Adam Schlesinger was an Emmy and Grammy award-winning American songwriter who played bass in multiple bands including Fountains of Wayne, Ivy and Tinted Windows. In addition, he also wrote the theme song to the 1996 film "That Thing You Do!" and was one of the owners of the independent record label Scratchie Records. He was born on October 31, 1967 and grew up in New York and Montclair, NJ. He passed away on April 1, 2020 at the age of 52 due to complications resulting from contracting corona

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. STAR: ultrafast universal RNA-seq aligner

   · 2012 · cited 51,051x

2. Reproducible, interactive, scalable and extensible microbiome data science using QIIME 2

   · 2019 · cited 20,879x

3. Initial sequencing and analysis of the human genome

   · 2001 · cited 18,616x

4. A global reference for human genetic variation

   · 2015 · cited 17,786x

5. Observational Evidence from Supernovae for an Accelerating Universe and a Cosmological Constant

   · 1998 · cited 16,274x

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Wikidata facts

Instance of

human

Given name

Adam

Family name

Schlesinger

Gender

male

Citizenship

United States

Place of birth

New York City

Place of death

Poughkeepsie

Occupation

musician

Languages spoken

English language

Genre

power pop

Instrument

guitar

Image

Adam-Schlesinger-(in-Tinted-Windows).jpg

Residence

Poughkeepsie

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