By Jordan Hoffman, The Daily Beast | Jeff Buckley, the quintessential “alternative” singer-songwriter of the 1990s, is more popular now than ever, if my college freshman niece’s Instagram stories are to be believed.
The unpredictable performer with Catholic influences, James Dean looks, a Mariana Trench-sized vocal range and a vaudevillian’s sense of stage patter died in a freak accident at the age of 30 [he drowned while swimming in a river], with only one studio recording, Grace, under his belt.
Though certainly celebrated by those with taste in his lifetime, the too-soon-gone tragedy of his early passing makes a perfect fit for his heart-on-its-sleeve musical style. As a longtime fan I’d give anything for him to have survived and made more music for decades, but I understand the allure the beautiful corpse legend has for new fans.
It is, of course, something of an inherited legend. Jeff’s father, Tim, was a similarly genre-breaking singer who died at age 28, of a heroin overdose. The 8-year-old Jeff barely knew his father at the time of his death, but the documentary It’s Never Over, Jeff Buckley, in theaters Friday, August 8, suggests an inherited, congenital, all-encompassing musicality.
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Go here to read more about this documentary:
https://www.msn.com/en-us/music/news/new-jeff-buckley-doc-honors-gone-too-soon-prodigy/