The legendary musician David Bowie , died on the night of Sunday to Monday of cancer at the age of 69, has combined folk music and experiments for s assert as one of the biggest pop stars of all time. Chameleon artist, he had just released the 25th album of his rich career, “Blackstar”, Friday, January 8, the day of his 69th birthday.
The singer and composer, who built his career on successive reincarnations, through the characters of Ziggy Stardust, Aladdin Sane, or Thin White Duke, was a key-to- all visionary who has influenced generations of artists. Equally comfortable with Beckett and Nietzsche with his friends Lou Reed and Iggy Pop, he spent his life experimenting with many genres, with frequent trips to the cinema, theater, fashion and painting. He continues to inspire both household humming his tunes to the supermarket and the young rebel who revisits his androgynous look and cloudy 1970
His success is measured by the number of albums sold more than 140 million, or through the influence it continues to exert on his colleagues, Lady Gaga to placebo or Blur. And how many singers can attract one million visitors to their name alone, for the traveling exhibition “David Bowie Is”, launched in 2013 in London?
The man with 1000 faces
David Robert Jones was born on January 8 1947 in a modest family of Brixton, a popular area of South London. At sixteen, during a fight, his left eye is severely damaged. It will keep a constantly dilated pupil creating the odd impression that he has eyes of different color. It was at this time that he left school and began his musical career. The first success coming in 1969 with “Space Oddity,” a mythologized ride on the story of Major Tom, an astronaut who becomes lost in space.
Meanwhile, he studied mime classes. This learning and his love of costume, fashion or kabuki theater, will later develop into the 1000 human faces. In 1972, begins the waltz of the characters. It is first of Ziggy Stardust, androgynous star who throws the glam rock period. Follow the crazy characters decadent, cynical and rebellious Nazi wan.
Behind the masks, David provokes multiplies conflicting statements, including sexual orientation, feeds worldly chronicles, records uneven discs, irritates and fascinates. In 1975, David Bowie made a breakthrough in the US with “Fame”, co-written with John Lennox, which ranks number one, and the hit album “Young Americans”.
A heart attack in 2004 forced him to slow
The singer then saw the United States with his wife Angie, but in 1976 he moved three years in West Berlin with his son Zowie, leaving behind a life of cocaine. From 1976 to 1979, during his Berlin period, he produced a trilogy with Brian Eno (Low, Heroes and Lodger) paving the way for the “cold wave”.
His album “Let’s Dance” in 1983, conquered a younger audience on the dance floor. But from 1988, the period with the hard rock band Tin Machine, received a mixed reception. In film, David Bowie played including “Furyo” Nagisa Oshima “The Hunger” Tony Scott or “The Last Temptation of Christ” by Martin Scorsese. He married Somalian supermodel Iman in 1992, with whom he had a daughter, Alexandria, and after a period in Switzerland, is split between London and New York.
David Bowie resumed his solo career and always innovative, unveiled in 1999 his album “Hours” on the web, allowing the downloading of albums fee. Until the early 2000s, he continues discs and tours but a heart attack in June 2004 on the stage of a German festival ends this period.
Forced into a long rest, it is rare, with only a few appearances on stage with Arcade Fire, Alicia Keys and the former guitarist of Pink Floyd, David Gilmour . While alarming rumors about his health are rife, it rebounds in 2013 with a boiling Album of life, “The next day”. “Here I am, not really dying,” he had then exclaimed, while his rage on the song of the same name.
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