“Jeff Buckley is one of the greatest vocalists that I’ve ever heard. Listening to him is inspiring, moving, spiritual. What a gift. He’s inspired many admirers and imitators but no one can duplicate him.”
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Jeff Buckley
Jeffrey Scott Buckley was an American musician. After a decade as a session guitarist in Los Angeles, he attracted a following in the early 1990s performing at venues in the East Village, Manhattan. He signed with Columbia and released his only studio album, Grace, in 1994. Buckley toured extensively to promote Grace, with concerts in the U.S., Europe, Japan, and Australia.
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entertainment · American musician (1966–1997) · singer-songwriter · guitarist · singer · composer · musician · also Jeff Buckley, Buckley
Born 17 November 1966 · Died 29 May 1997 · Q215855
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2026· 7 entries
“this will be the only official dramatisation of Jeff”
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That Eric Alper: Video: Jeff Buckley’s Lost Toronto HMV Performance Is A Remarkable 30-Minute Time Capsule
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Universidad de Valparaíso: “It’s Never Over, Jeff Buckley” (2025)
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The Guardian: It’s Never Over, Jeff Buckley review – a sympathetic, urgent look at a life cut tragically short
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The Guardian: TikTok virality gives Jeff Buckley his first US Top 100 hit 29 years after his death
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Buckley was nominated for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
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2025· 15 entries
Released album “Jeff Buckley: It’s Never Over”.
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Published video “Jeff Buckley - The Other Woman (Studio Outtake (1993) - Official Audio)”.
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Published video “Jeff Buckley - Opened Once (Official Audio)”.
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Published video “Jeff Buckley - Lilac Wine (Official Audio)”.
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Published video “Jeff Buckley - Nightmares By The Sea (Official Audio)”.
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Published video “Jeff Buckley - Vancouver (Official Audio)”.
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Published video “Jeff Buckley - Mojo Pin (Official Audio)”.
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Published video “Jeff Buckley - Corpus Christi Carol (Official Audio)”.
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Published video “Jeff Buckley, Shudder To Think - I Want Someone Badly (Official Audio)”.
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Published video “Lover, You Should've Come Over (Live at Sin-é, New York, NY (July/August 1993) - Official Audio)”.
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Published video “Jeff Buckley - Mama, You Been on My Mind (Studio Outtake (1993) - Official Audio)”.
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The Guardian: ‘Jeff Buckley was a once-in-a-lifetime’: Australia’s 30-year love affair with an enduring, tragic talent
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The Guardian: ‘I wanted to be Nina Simone’: Jeff Buckley documentary shows female influences
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The Guardian: ‘There just aren’t words to explain’: Jeff Buckley documentary brings tears to Sundance
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And was released on August 8, 2025, by Magnolia Pictures
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2024· 1 entry
Released ep “Break Free (Live)”.
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2022· 1 entry
Foo Fighters singer, Dave Grohl, and his daughter, Violet, performed "Last Goodbye" and "Grace", with Alain Johannes, Greg Kurstin, Chris Chaney, and Jason Falkner
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2021· 1 entry
The Guardian: ‘These are his true remains’: the fight over Jeff Buckley’s final recordings
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2020· 1 entry
Matt Bellamy of Muse purchased the Telecaster and said it "has a sound like nothing I've ever heard"
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2019· 5 entries
Released album “Live at Wetlands”.
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Released album “Live at Columbia Records Radio Hour”.
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Released album “Live at Cabaret Metro”.
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Released album “In Transition”.
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Released album “Live at KCRW (Morning Becomes Eclectic)”.
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2017· 2 entries
The Guardian: Last Goodbye: Jeff Buckley and the ethics of a posthumous career
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Released album “Live ’92”.
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2016· 4 entries
The Guardian: Jeff Buckley: You and I review – one from the vaults…
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Released album “You and I”.
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The Guardian: Jeff Buckley: You & I review – another unnecessary posthumous release
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The Guardian: Remembering Jeff Buckley: 'People would listen with their mouths open'
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2015· 5 entries
The Guardian: The playlist: indie – Younghusband, Fat White Family, Jeff Buckley and more
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The Guardian: New Jeff Buckley album compiles lost recordings
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The Guardian: My hero: Jeff Buckley by Benjamin Wood
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Released album “It's Not Too Late”.
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Tapes of a 1993 recording session for Columbia Records were discovered by Sony executives doing research for the 20th anniversary of Grace
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2014· 1 entry
Buckley's version of "Hallelujah" was inducted into the American Library of Congress' National Recording Registry
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2013· 3 entries
It was announced that Buckley's version of "Hallelujah" would be inducted into the Library of Congress's National Recording Registry
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Released album “Playlist: The Very Best of Jeff Buckley”.
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Released album “Dreams of the Way We Were”.
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2012· 1 entry
Greetings from Tim Buckley premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival
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2010· 2 entries
Released album “The Jeff Buckley Collection”.
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The Smiths singer Morrissey, one of Buckley's influences, named Grace one of his favorite albums
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2009· 3 entries
Released album “Live From Seattle, WA, May 7, 1995”.
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Released album “Grace Around the World”.
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By Sony BMG Legacy as part of the Grace Around The World Deluxe Edition
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2008· 1 entry
Buckley's version of "Hallelujah" was number one on the iTunes chart, selling 178,000 downloads for the week, after being performed by Jason Castro on the seventh season of American Idol
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2007· 2 entries
Released album “Grace / Mystery White Boy”.
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Released album “So Real: Songs From Jeff Buckley”.
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2006· 3 entries
Released album “Born Again From the Rhythm: The Grace Outtakes”.
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Released album “Grace Outtakes”.
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Mojo named Grace the number one Modern Rock Classic of all Time
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2004· 3 entries
Released album “1997-02-09: The Grace of J: Arlene's Grocery, New York City, NY, USA”.
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Released album “1995-01-30: Japanese Whisper: Shinjyuku Liquid Room, Tokyo, Japan”.
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Released album “The Rain Was Falling on That Day”.
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2003· 1 entry
Released album “Live at Sin-É”.
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2002· 4 entries
Released album “The Grace EPs”.
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Released album “Songs to No One 1991–1992”.
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Released album “Fall In Light”.
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And sold over six times platinum in Australia in 2006
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2001· 1 entry
Released album “Live à L’Olympia”.
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2000· 1 entry
Released album “Mystery White Boy: Live ’95-’96”.
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1998· 2 entries
Released album “Sketches for My Sweetheart the Drunk”.
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“I had this really interesting whispering vibrato. It sounded so intimate and spiritual and ethereal, and it reminded me of Jeff a bit. I think I can sing with just about anybody, but he's one of the few singers who truly intimidates me. He's one of the best I've ever heard.”
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1997· 3 entries
Died 1997-05-29.
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Buckley played a short set at the Knitting Factory's tenth anniversary concert featuring a selection of his new songs: "Jewel Box", "Morning Theft", "Everybody Here Wants You", "The Sky is a Landfill" and "Yard of Blonde
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“You Could Do Worse Zine, #3”
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1996· 5 entries
Was the last gig he played with Buckley and his band
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Released ep “The Grace EP”.
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“This is a song about, it's and angry song. Life is too short and too complicated for people behind desks and people behind masks to be ruining other peoples lives, initiating force against other peoples lives on the basis of their income, their color, their class, their religious beliefs, their whatever. Aaahh”
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Buckley worked on his second album with the working title My Sweetheart the Drunk in New York City with Tom Verlaine as the producer
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Buckley started writing a new album with the working title My Sweetheart the Drunk
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1995· 7 entries
Released ep “Live From the Bataclan”.
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Released ep “Live at Nighttown”.
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Released ep “So Real EP”.
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Released album “Wayward Angel”.
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Released ep “Eternal Life”.
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Released album “Hallelujah”.
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Released ep “Last Goodbye”.
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1994· 5 entries
Starting with performances in the UK and Ireland
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Released album “Grace”.
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Released ep “Peyote Radio Theatre”.
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Buckley began a relationship with musician Joan Wasser, known professionally as Joan as Police Woman
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Released ep “So Real”.
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1993· 1 entry
Released ep “Live at Sin-é”.
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1991· 1 entry
To make his public singing debut at a tribute concert for his father, Greetings from Tim Buckley
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1975· 1 entry
Jeff chose to go by Buckley and his given name, Jeff, which he found on his birth certificate
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1966· 1 entry
Born 1966-11-17.
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