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- Hypergraphia
- Perspectives: polaroids 82-84
- Trophies II the Lyrics of David Sylvian
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Beckenham, Kent, England, UK
David Sylvian, born David Alan Batt, is an English singer-songwriter, musician and film director who came to prominence in the late 1970s as the lead vocalist and main songwriter in the group Japan. On his solo records of the '80s, Sylvian's explorations in music took him from the pop-funk, stylish jazz and windswept exotica of 1984's Brilliant Trees; the ambient landscapes and epic ballads of…
Known for
- Sleeping Dragon2024
- Brilliant Trees Sessions2021
- Ryuichi Sakamoto: async at the Park Avenue Armory — Narrator on "Life, Life" (voice)2018
- async - first light2017
- A Gentle Glow — (Voice)2017
- Steve Jansen - The Occurrence of Slope2008
- Japan - The Very Best Of2006
- The Work of Director Anton Corbijn — Self (segment "Red Guitar")2005
- Time Spent — Himself1997
- David Sylvian and Robert Fripp: Live in Japan1995
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David Sylvian (born David Alan Batt, February 23 1958, in Beckenham, Kent, UK) is an English singer, musician and composer who first rose to fame as the lead vocalist and main songwriter of the band Japan, and whose subsequent solo career has been influenced by a variety of musical styles and genres, including jazz, ambient music and electronic music. Japan, which also included Mick Karn, Rob Dean, Richard Barbieri and Sylvian's brother Steve Jansen <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/David+Syl
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Named after
- Sylvain Sylvain
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Place of birth
- Beckenham
- Spouse
- Ingrid Chavez
- Sibling
- Steve Jansen
- Occupation
- keyboardist
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Native language
- English language
- Genre
- experimental rock
- Instrument
- voice
- Official website
- www.davidsylvian.com
- Image
- DavidSylvianNov82.JPG
- Voice type
- baritone
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- date of birth
- 1958-02-23
- start of work period
- 1974-00-00
- birth name
- David Alan Batt
- member of
- Japan
- pseudonym
- Mr. X
- social media followers
- 14775
- copyright representative
- PRS for Music
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