Jeffrey Scott Buckley (November 17, 1966 – May 29, 1997), raised as Scotty Moorhead, was an American singer-songwriter and guitarist. He was the son of Tim Buckley, also a musician. Buckley gained popularity in the early 1990s by playing cover songs at venues in Manhattan's East Village, such as Sin-é, and he gradually focused more on his own material.
After much interest from record labels he signed with Columbia and, after recruiting a band, recorded what would be his first and only studio album, Grace. Over the following two years, the band toured widely to promote the album, including concerts in the U.S., Europe, Japan and Australia. In 1997, he stopped touring and moved to Memphis, Tennessee, to experiment with new material for a second album, recording many four track demos and completing his third recording session for his new album with his band, with Tom Verlaine as producer. While awaiting the arrival of his band from New York, he drowned during an evening swim in the Wolf River. His body was found on June 4, 1997. Since his death, there have been many posthumous releases of his material, including a collection of four-track demos and studio recordings for his unfinished second album My Sweetheart the Drunk and expansions of debut album Grace and his Live at Sin-é EP. Chart success also came posthumously; with "Hallelujah" he attained his first #1 on Billboard's Hot Digital Songs in March 2008 and reached #2 in the UK Singles Chart at Christmas 2008. Buckley and his work continue to remain popular and regularly featured in 'greatest' lists in the music press.
Awards and nominations
* L'Académie Charles Cros awarded Buckley the "Grand Prix International Du Disque" on April 13, 1995 in honor of his debut album Grace.
* MTV Video Music Award nomination for Best New Artist in a Video for "Last Goodbye", 1995.
* Rolling Stone magazine nomination for Best New Artist, 1995.
* Triple J Hottest 100 awarded #14 best song for that year in the world's largest voting competition for "Last Goodbye", 1995.
* Grammy Award nomination for Best Male Rock Vocal Performance for "Everybody Here Wants You", 1998.
* Grace was ranked #303 of the 500 Greatest Albums by Rolling Stone magazine in 2003.
* Buckley's cover of "Hallelujah" was ranked #259 of the 500 Greatest Songs by Rolling Stone magazine in 2004.
* Rolling Stone magazine ranked Buckley #39 in its 2008 list: The 100 Greatest Singers of All Time.
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