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Stephin Merritt was born on 9 February, 1965 in Yonkers, New York, U.S., is an American singer-songwriter. Discover Stephin Merritt's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 59 years old?

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Occupation Singer-songwriter
Age 59 years old
Zodiac Sign Aquarius
Born 9 February, 1965
Birthday 9 February
Birthplace Yonkers, New York, U.S.
Nationality United States

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1965

Stephin Merritt (born February 9, 1965) is an American singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, best known as the songwriter and principal singer of the bands the Magnetic Fields, the Gothic Archies, and Future Bible Heroes.

He is known for his distinctive and untrained bass voice.

Merritt created and plays principal roles in the bands the Magnetic Fields, the 6ths, the Gothic Archies and Future Bible Heroes.

He briefly used the name The Baudelaire Memorial Orchestra as an attribution for "Scream and Run Away", a song written for Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events, but further music was attributed to the Gothic Archies.

1999

Between 1999 and 2005, he was one-third of the infrequent, live-only ensemble the Three Terrors, with 69 Love Songs's Dudley Klute and LD Beghtol.

These performances were themed around French pop music, movie themes (including the title song from Deep Throat), intoxication, and New York City.

Kenny Mellman (of Kiki & Herb), Jon DeRosa and others performed with the Three Terrors at these sporadic gala events.

2000

Under his own name, he recorded and released the soundtracks to the films Eban and Charley (2000) and Pieces of April (2003).

The soundtrack to the Nickelodeon show The Adventures of Pete & Pete featured many of his songs.

2003

He and director Chen Shi-Zheng collaborated on three pieces of musical theatre: The Orphan of Zhao (2003), Peach Blossom Fan (2004) and My Life as a Fairy Tale (2005).

Selected tracks from these works have been released on Nonesuch Records under the title Showtunes.

2005

In September 2005, an interviewer quoted an anonymous reviewer to Bob Mould that Mould was "the most depressed man in rock."

Mould's response was "He's never met Stephin Merritt, obviously."

Unlike most singer-songwriters, Merritt rarely writes autobiographical songs and does not consider songwriting to be emotionally expressive but an exercise in craft, carried out for its own pleasure.

His albums generally have a lyrical theme; for instance, The Charm of the Highway Strip is imitation country music.

He has stated that he finds writing lyrics with constraints easier.

Merritt's preferred method of writing songs involves spending several hours sitting in gay bars "one-third full of cranky old gay men gossiping over thumping disco music" with a glass of cognac, which provides him with inspiration for lyrics.

Critics have also praised his tunes and production, calling him a "master melody-writer" and "an arduous studio rat".

Some albums also have musical themes: for instance, the Magnetic Fields album Distortion is feedback-rich mix of noise and pop, and it, i, and Realism make a "trilogy" of records without synthesizers.

In contrast, their next album, Love at the Bottom of the Sea, used synthesizers extensively.

Throughout Merritt's career, he has changed styles frequently, and uses a wide variety of instruments on his records.

He has described Abba, Stephen Sondheim, and Phil Spector as influences.

Merritt has said he is an avid listener of bubblegum pop, listing Ramones, Kraftwerk, Abba, The Troggs as examples of the style.

2007

Merritt wrote and sang "I'm in a Lonely Way" in a television commercial for Volvo that aired in the summer and fall of 2007.

He also performed "The Wheels on the Car".

2009

He also penned the music and lyrics for a 2009 Off-Broadway stage musical adaptation of Coraline, a novel by Neil Gaiman.

In the MCC Theater production, his music was performed by a piano "orchestra" consisting of a traditional piano, a toy piano and a prepared piano.

2010

He produced a score for the silent film 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea that was performed at the Castro Theatre, San Francisco on May 4, 2010, as part of the San Francisco International Film Festival.

2013

Prior to 2013, he had never met his biological father, folk singer Scott Fagan, who had a brief affair with Merritt's mother.

The three met at a screening of the film AKA Doc Pomus in 2013.

Merritt's relationship with his father is described in the song "'99: Fathers in the Clouds", on the Magnetic Fields album 50 Song Memoir.

2014

In 2014, he released his first book, 101 Two-Letter Words.

It is a collection of brief poems, one inspired by each of the two-letter words legal in Scrabble.

Merritt has been acclaimed for his lyrics, which have been described as "romantic", "humorous", and "literary", and he has been called an "insightful lyricist" and a "brilliant wordsmith".

At other times, writers have emphasized the unhappiness of his lyrics.

2019

He has expressed a disdain for hip hop and much of contemporary pop, describing the former as responsible for "more vicious caricatures of African-Americans than they had in the 19th century."

Growing up, Merritt used different spellings of his name for different purposes.

He used "Stephin" to sort his junk mail, and that eventually became the name he used as a musician.

He attended Massachusetts high school The Cambridge School of Weston and briefly attended NYU before moving back to Boston.

He has worked as an editor for Spin Magazine and Time Out New York.