Beck

Person · Open Library

Born

1914

Died

2008

Works

51

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Film & TV

Acting · Los Angeles, California, USA

Beck Hansen (born Bek David Campbell, July 8, 1970), known by the stage name Beck, is an American musician, singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. Beck rose to fame in the early 1990s with his lo-fi, sonically experimental style, and he became well known for creating musical collages of a wide range of styles. His later recordings encompass folk, funk, soul, hip hop, alternative rock,…

Known for

• Beck - Live at Pinkpop 1997 — Himself2026
• The Best Summer — Self2026
• 2025 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony — Self2025
• Lightscape — Man at Donut Shop2024
• John Mulaney Presents: Everybody's in L.A. — Self - Music Performance2024
• A Grammy Salute to The Beach Boys — Self2023
• Willie Nelson 90: Long Story Short — Self2023
• Michel Gondry: Do It Yourself — Self - Musician2023
• The Bubble — Beck2022
• Gorillaz | Song Machine Live From Kong — Self2021

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Gender

Male

Origin

Germany

Active from

1970

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

4,195,819

Total plays

158,855,447

Beck Hansen (born Bek David Campbell, July 8, 1970) is an American musician, singer-songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist. Beck's music is known for its pop-junk culture collage of musical styles, ironic lyrics, samples, drum machines, live instrumentation and heady sound effects. Beck was born in Los Angeles, California, to David Campbell (a musician and son of a Presbyterian minister) and Bibbe Hansen (a former dancer for The Velvet Underground, founding member of the satirical band Black Fa

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. An Inventory for Measuring Depression

   · 1961 · cited 28,274x

2. Initial sequencing and analysis of the human genome

   · 2001 · cited 18,617x

3. Multilineage Potential of Adult Human Mesenchymal Stem Cells

   · 1999 · cited 15,867x

4. Ordered mesoporous molecular sieves synthesized by a liquid-crystal template mechanism

   · 1992 · cited 14,886x

5. An inventory for measuring clinical anxiety: Psychometric properties.

   · 1988 · cited 10,638x

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Quotes

• “Our whole culture in this country now is so conformist. I don't even meet that many freaks any more.”
• “I think it's interesting being American, the expectations for an American guy, and the image that has to be projected. 'Oh, I can't wear pink,' that kind of stuff. There's none of that in Europe.”
• “We had one night where I wanted a bunch of percussion noises at the end of song. We went into this room with three cases of percussion. Everybody just grabbed different shakers and things and was just throwing them around.A few of the guys in the band got a little carried away and I just remember looking up and somebody was running into a wall. Another guy was leaping head first about three of four feet in the air. But other than that it was pretty sedated.”
• “I think I gave indications early on that mine wasn't just going to be a commercial, er, career. If that were the case, then the first record would have been 10 versions of 'Loser.' I always thought it would be interesting if there was no such thing as gold and platinum records, or record deals, and people were just making music. What would the music sound like?”
• “I don't need to cry so much. I think whatever you let loose with crying, I let loose with singing. I tend to be the one who wants... I'm trying to say this without sounding too touchy-feely. I'm usually the one who's better at comforting the person who's crying, you know?”
• “I'm not good at the protocols of dating. [laughs] I'm not really experienced in that. My girlfriend is my second or third girlfriend. I think in the past none of us really knew when we were "dating"-we were just hanging out and doing things. I didn't go to high school so I missed the prom.”

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Key facts

Person.name

Beck

Person.image

Beck in performance (2005).jpg

Person.alt

Beck onstage playing guitar and smiling, wearing a suit

Person.caption

Beck in 2005

Person.birth_name

Bek David Campbell

Person.birth_place

Los Angeles, California, U.S.

Person.years_active

1988–present

Person.awards

Full list

Person.children

2

Person.mother

Bibbe Hansen

Person.father

David Campbell

Person.relatives

Al Hansen (Grandfather)

Person.signature

Beck signature, Billboard Open Letter 2016.png

Musical artist.embed

yes

Musical artist.discography

Beck discography

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