Sufjan Stevens
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1975-07-01
- Works
- 4
Top works
- Sufjan Stevens Songbook
- The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2007
- This is us
- Planetarium
- We Are Shielded By The Holy Ghost
via Open Library + Wikidata
Film & TV
Sound · Detroit, Michigan, USA
Sufjan Stevens is an American singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist. He has released ten solo studio albums and multiple collaborative albums with other artists. Stevens has received Grammy and Academy Award nominations.
Known for
- Sufjan Stevens: Carrie & Lowell Live — Self2017
- Sufjan Stevens Live - Outside Lands Music & Arts Festival — Self2016
- The Late Show with Stephen Colbert — Self - Guest2015
- The National - 'High Violet' Live From Brooklyn Academy of Music — Self2010
- All the Way from Michigan Not Mars — Self2009
- Late Night with Jimmy Fallon — Self – Musical Guest2009
- Danielson: A Family Movie (or, Make a Joyful Noise Here) — Self2006
- Austin City Limits — Self1975
- The Oscars — Self1953
via TMDB
Listeners · Last.fm
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- 3,967,451
- Total plays
- 304,714,881
Tags
folkindiesinger-songwriteralternativeindie rock
Sufjan Stevens (Born July 1, 1975) is an American musician, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist from Petoskey, Michigan. He is known for his lyrically focused and instrumentally rich songs that often relate to faith and family. He has enjoyed wide critical success in the United States. He is considered part of the folk revival through indie pop, but his influences are very broad, including experimental electronic music, the jazz of Vince Guaraldi, and the academic minimalism of Steve Reich and
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- A New Equation to Estimate Glomerular Filtration Rate
· 2009 · cited 22,227x
- LAMMPS - a flexible simulation tool for particle-based materials modeling at the atomic, meso, and continuum scales
· 2022 · cited 10,700x
- The RAST Server: Rapid Annotations using Subsystems Technology
· 2008 · cited 10,607x
- Analysis of protein-coding genetic variation in 60,706 humans
· 2016 · cited 8,976x
- Mutations of the BRAF gene in human cancer
· 2002 · cited 8,572x
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Key facts
- Born
- ( 1975-07-01 ) July 1, 1975 (age 50) , Detroit, Michigan , U.S.
- Genres
- Indie folk chamber pop folktronica indie rock electronica
- Occupations
- Musician singer songwriter
- Instruments
- Vocals guitar keyboards bass drums percussion banjo guitalin oboe English horn recorder
- Works
- Sufjan Stevens discography
- Years active
- 1995–present
- Labels
- Asthmatic Kitty Sounds Familyre Orchard
- Website
- music .sufjan .com
via Wikipedia infobox
Key dates
- Born
- 1 July 1975
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Family name
- Stevens
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Detroit
- Occupation
- singer
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Religion
- anglo-catholicism
- Genre
- electronic music
- Instrument
- woodwind instrument
Article
Sufjan Stevens (/ˈsuːfjɑːn/ SOOF-yahn; born July 1, 1975) is an American singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist. He has released ten solo studio albums and multiple collaborative albums with other artists. Stevens has received Grammy and Academy Award nominations.
His debut album, A Sun Came, was released in 2000 on the Asthmatic Kitty label, which he co-founded with his stepfather. He received wide recognition for his 2005 album Illinois, which hit number one on the Billboard Top Heatseekers chart, and for the single "Chicago" from that album. Stevens later contributed to the soundtrack of the 2017 film Call Me by Your Name. He received an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Song and a Grammy nomination for Best Song Written for Visual Media for the soundtrack's lead single, "Mystery of Love".
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