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Nick Drake
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British singer-songwriter
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- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- Canada
- Active from
- 1948
- Active to
- 1974
Discography
- Five Leaves Left1969
- Bryter Layter1971
- Pink Moon1972
- Fruit Tree: The Complete Recorded Works1979
- Heaven in a Wild Flower: An Exploration of Nick Drake1985
- Time of No Reply1986
- The Hannibal Sampler1992
- Tanworth‐in‐Arden 1967/681994
- Way to Blue: An Introduction to Nick Drake1994
- The Complete Home Recordings1998
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Nick Drake (Nicholas Rodney Drake, Yangon, Myanmar, June 19, 1948 - Tanworth-in-Arden, Warwickshire, England, November 25, 1974) was an English folk singer known for his gentle, enigmatic songs and his virtuosic right-hand finger picking technique. Although he recorded only three albums, critics and fellow musicians hold his work in very high esteem. Drake failed to find a wide audience during his lifetime and had a strong aversion to performing. Since his death, however, Drake's music has gain
Key facts
- Born
- Nicholas Rodney Drake , ( 1948-06-19 ) 19 June 1948, Rangoon , Burma
- Died
- 25 November 1974 (1974-11-25) (aged 26), Tanworth-in-Arden , Warwickshire, England
- Genres
- Folk chamber folk folk-pop folk-rock
- Occupations
- Musician singer songwriter
- Instruments
- Guitar piano vocals
- Years active
- 1967–1974
- Label
- Island
- Website
- brytermusic .com
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Nicholas
- Family name
- Drake
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Place of birth
- Yangon
- Place of death
- Tanworth-in-Arden
- Sibling
- Gabrielle Drake
- Occupation
- singer
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Genre
- folk music
- Instrument
- voice
- Record label
- Elektra
- Official website
- www.brytermusic.com
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- Commons category
- Nick Drake
- date of birth
- 1948-06-19
- date of death
- 1974-11-25
- topic's main category
- Category:Nick Drake
- start of work period
- 1969-00-00
- place of burial
- Warwickshire
- topic has template
- Template:Nick Drake
- birth name
- Nicholas Rodney Drake
- name in native language
- Nick Drake
- copyright representative
- PRS for Music
- cause of death
- drug overdose
- manner of death
- Suicide
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Encyclopedic overview
Nicholas Rodney Drake (19 June 1948 – 25 November 1974) was an English musician. An accomplished acoustic guitarist, Drake signed to Island Records at the age of twenty while still a student at the University of Cambridge. His debut album, Five Leaves Left, was released in 1969, and was followed by two more albums, Bryter Layter (1971) and Pink Moon (1972). He did not reach a wide audience during his lifetime, but found acclaim and wider recognition following his death.
Drake suffered from depression and was reluctant to perform in front of live audiences. Upon completion of Pink Moon, he withdrew from both performance and recording, retreating to his parents' home in rural Warwickshire. On 25 November 1974, at the age of 26, he died from an overdose of antidepressants.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Nick Drake” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.