Michael Stipe

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Age

Movies

Born: January 4, 1960
From: Decatur, Georgia, USA

Biography

John Michael Stipe (born January 4, 1960) is an American singer, songwriter and artist, best known as the lead singer and lyricist of alternative rock band R.E.M. He is known for his vocal quality, poetic lyrics and unique stage presence. Possessing a distinctive voice, Stipe has been noted for the "mumbling" style of his early career. Since the mid-1980s, Stipe has sung in "wailing, keening, arching vocal figures" that R.E.M. biographer David Buckley compared to Celtic folk artists and Muslim muezzin. He was in charge of R.E.M.'s visual aspect, often selecting album artwork and directing many of the band's music videos. Outside the music industry, he owns and runs two film production studios, C-00 and Single Cell Pictures. As a member of R.E.M., Stipe was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2007. As a singer-songwriter, Stipe influenced a wide range of artists, including Kurt Cobain of Nirvana and Thom Yorke of Radiohead. Bono of U2 has described his voice as "extraordinary", and Yorke told The Guardian that Stipe is his favorite lyricist, saying "I loved the way he would take an emotion and then take a step back from it and in doing so make it so much more powerful." From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Works

66 films

Beastie Boys Story

20207.5

Antiheroine

2026

12-12-12 | The Concert for Sandy Relief

20126.8

Olive, the Other Reindeer

19996.7

Jim & Andy: The Great Beyond

20177.5

Sesame Street: Singing with the Stars

2012

Sesame Street: Elmo's World: The Street We Live On!

20047.6

MTV's 10th Anniversary Special

1991

R.E.M.: This Is Not a Show - Live at the Olympia in Dublin

2009

Slacker Uprising

20075.3

R.E.M.: Rough Cut

19956.5

Arena Brains

19875.0

R.E.M.: MTV Unplugged No. 2.0

2001

R.E.M. : Perfect Square

20047.2

Speed Racer: Welcome to the World of Vic Chesnutt

19948.0

Color of a Brisk and Leaping Day

19965.6

The Making of Olive, The Other Reindeer

2000

Tibetan Freedom Concert

1996

R.E.M. Live

20078.0

Anthem

19975.4

R.E.M. - Monster

20197.0

Patti Smith: Dream of Life

20086.1

1 Giant Leap

20025.3

R.E.M. Live from Austin, TX

20108.0

R.E.M. - Automatic Unearthed

20178.0

What Doesn’t Kill Me: The Life and Music of Vic Chesnutt

2016

R.E.M. Tourfilm

19908.0

Shadow Play: The Making of Anton Corbijn

20097.0

R.E.M.: Live at Shoreline Amphitheatre 1998/10/17

1998

R.E.M.: Pop Screen

199010.0

R.E.M.: In View 1988-2003 (The Best of R.E.M.)

20035.0

R.E.M. by MTV

20146.6

R.E.M. - This Film Is On

19917.0

Athens, GA Inside/Out

19877.8

Hansa Studios: By the Wall 1976-90

20187.6

Creem: America's Only Rock 'n' Roll Magazine

20196.7

Louder Than You Think

20236.0

New Adventures in Hi-Fi Stereophonic on Film

19968.5

R.E.M.: MTV Unplugged

19918.5

R.E.M.: Succumbs

19876.0

R.E.M.: When the Light is Mine

2006

R.E.M.

20020.5

R.E.M.: Road Movie

19967.3

R.E.M. - Automatic for the People

20178.0

R.E.M. Live in Stockholm

1998

R.E.M.: A Stirling Performance

2000

R.E.M.: Parallel

19957.7

R.E.M. - Live At The Rock Am Ring

20058.0

R.E.M. at the BBC

20125.0

R.E.M.: Live at the Raleigh Underground

1982

Radiohead: Tibetan Freedom Concert

1998

R.E.M.: This Way Up

1999

Weirdo: The Story of Five Eight

2024

R.E.M. - Out Of Time

201610.0

Mojica In The Snow: Tonight I Incarnate At Sundance!

2001

R.E.M.: Live at Shoreline Amphitheatre 1998/10/18

1998

6 Days

2008

Dashboard Confessional: MTV2 Album Covers

2004

R.E.M. - Falls to Climb

1999

R.E.M. - Live In Athens (MTV) 2008

20088.0

R.E.M.

1989

Left of Reckoning

1984

R.E.M. Unplugged: The Complete 1991 and 2001 Sessions

2014

R.E.M: Shocking Club, Milan, Italy

1991

R.E.M.: Live at The Capitol Theater

1985

R.E.M.: New Adventures In Hi-Fi

2026