Mark Sandman
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Newtonville, Massachusetts, U.S.
Mark Sandman (September 24, 1952 – July 3, 1999) was an American singer, songwriter, musical instrument inventor, multi-instrumentalist and comic writer. Sandman possessed a distinctive, deep bass-baritone voice and a mysterious demeanour. He was an indie rock icon and longtime fixture in the Boston/Cambridge music scene, best known as the lead singer and slide bass player of the band Morphine.…
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- Morphine: Journey of Dreams — Himself2014
- Morphine: Live at Pinkpop 19941994
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Mark Sandman (September 24, 1952 – July 3, 1999) was an American singer, songwriter, musical instrument inventor and multi-instrumentalist. An indie rock icon and longtime fixture on the Boston music scene, Sandman was best known as the lead singer and slide bass player of the band Morphine. Sandman was also known as a prominent member of the Boston blues band Treat Her Right and the founder of Hi-n-Dry, a Cambridge, Massachusetts-based recording studio and independent record label. <a href="ht
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- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Mark
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Newton
- Place of death
- Palestrina
- Occupation
- composer
- Genre
- indie rock
- Instrument
- bass guitar
- Record label
- Rykodisc
- Image
- Mark Sandman Mississippi Nights 1997.04.09.jpg
- Voice type
- baritone
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- date of birth
- 1952-09-24
- date of death
- 1999-07-03
- cause of death
- myocardial infarction
- manner of death
- natural causes
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- Mark Sandman
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