Skip Spence
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musicista e cantautore canadese
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It is catalogued under topics including 1946 births, 1999 deaths and 20th-century American drummers.
Its subject is documented across 20 Wikipedia language editions.
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1946-04-18
- Active to
- 1999-04-16
Discography
- Oar1969
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 37,738
- Total plays
- 388,956
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Alexander Lee "Skip" Spence (April 18, 1946 – April 16, 1999) was a musician and singer-songwriter best known for his work with Jefferson Airplane, Moby Grape and as a solo artist. He was born in Windsor, Ontario, Canada, and his family relocated to San Jose, California in the late 1950s. His career was plagued by drug addictions coupled with mental health problems, and is described by a biographer as man who "neither died young nor had a chance to find his way out. <a href="https://www.last.fm/
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Alexander
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Windsor
- Place of death
- Santa Cruz
- Occupation
- composer
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Field of work
- singing
- Genre
- psychedelic rock
- Instrument
- voice
- Record label
- Columbia Records
- Image
- Skip Spence (1966).jpg
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- date of birth
- 1946-04-18
- date of death
- 1999-04-16
- cause of death
- lung cancer
- manner of death
- natural causes
- place of burial
- Soquel
- start of work period
- 1965-00-00
- birth name
- Alexander Lee Spence
- end of work period
- 1971-00-00
- member of
- Moby Grape
- name in native language
- Alexander "Skip" Spence
- copyright representative
- Broadcast Music, Inc.
- Commons category
- Skip Spence
- described at URL
- www.sundazed.com/artists/sspence.html
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Article · Italiano
Alexander Lee "Skip" Spence (Windsor, 18 aprile 1946 – Santa Cruz, 16 aprile 1999) è stato un polistrumentista e cantautore canadese che ha trascorso gran parte della propria vita negli Stati Uniti e in particolare in California, noto per la sua collaborazione con i Jefferson Airplane, per essere stato il fondatore dei Moby Grape ed infine per aver intrapreso una breve carriera come solista.
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