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Darrell Hammond – American comedian, actor on Saturday Night Live [ 38] Tom Harrell – American jazz trumpeter, flugelhornist, composer, and arranger [ 39] Donny Hathaway – American soul singer and songwriter [ 40] Michael Hawkins – American actor; diagnosed with schizophrenia and bipolar disorder [ 41] Luke Helder – The Midwest Pipe ...
Wesley Willis. Wesley Lawrence Willis (May 31, 1963 – August 21, 2003) was an American musician and visual artist. Diagnosed with schizophrenia in 1989, Willis began a career as an underground singer-songwriter in the outsider music tradition. Willis' songs are typically partially spoken in an MC style, and partially sung in a nasal and out ...
Roger Keith " Syd " Barrett (6 January 1946 – 7 July 2006) was an English singer, guitarist and songwriter who co-founded the rock band Pink Floyd in 1965. Until his departure in 1968, he was Pink Floyd's frontman and primary songwriter, known for his whimsical style of psychedelia, [ 1] English-accented singing, and stream-of-consciousness ...
Famous People With Schizophrenia Zelda Fitzgerald. As the wife of The Great Gatsby writer F. Scott Fitzgerald and a talented writer and artist in her own right, Zelda Fitzgerald is best-known for ...
Daniel Dale Johnston (January 22, 1961 – c. September 11, 2019) was an American singer, musician and artist regarded as a significant figure in outsider, lo-fi, and alternative music scenes. [ 2][ 3] Most of his work consisted of cassettes recorded alone in his home, [ 5] and his music was frequently cited for its "pure" and "childlike ...
Following that, there is a list of people who are often wrongly believed to have had synesthesia because they used it as a device in their art, poetry or music (referred to as pseudo-synesthetes). Estimates of prevalence of synesthesia have ranged widely, from 1 in 4 to 1 in 25,000 – 100,000. However, most studies have relied on synesthetes ...
January 31, 1951 (age 73) Cleveland, Ohio, U.S. Instrument (s) Double bass, Violin, Cello, Drums, Piano. Nathaniel Anthony Ayers, Jr. (born January 31, 1951) is an American musician. He is the subject of numerous newspaper columns, a book, and a 2009 film adaptation based on the columns. A foundation bearing his name was started in 2008 with an ...
Of a 1997 Helfgott recital in New Zealand, critic Denis Dutton wrote, "If, as Goethe claimed, architecture is frozen music, David Helfgott is the musician who finally proves the converse: that music can also be melted architecture – a structureless rubble of notes." [15] Helfgott played piano in the Silverchair song "Emotion Sickness".