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Mike Mills
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American musician; multi-instrumentalist for American alternative rock band R.E.M.
OverviewAI-generated
Mike Mills is an American bassist, keyboardist, songwriter, and record producer born in 1958 in Orange County. He is a member of the bands R.E.M. and Hindu Love Gods. His musical career began in 1980, and he performs in the alternative rock genre. Mills plays the bass guitar, organ, piano, and guitar.
He was educated at the University of Georgia and resides in Macon and Athens. Mills is right-handed and speaks American English. His work is associated with tags including rock, indie, and easy listening.
Synthesized by Vinony from 24 facts across 3 sources: Wikidata, MusicBrainz, Last.fm. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1958
Discography
Member of
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 1,959
- Total plays
- 8,102
Tags
Mike Mills was the bass guitarist and keyboards player for R.E.M. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Mike+Mills">Read more on Last.fm</a>
Key facts
- Born
- Michael Edward Mills , ( 1958-12-17 ) December 17, 1958 (age 67) , Orange County, California , U.S.
- Genres
- Alternative rock , folk rock , college rock , jangle pop
- Occupations
- Musician, composer, music producer
- Instruments
- Bass guitar, keyboards, vocals
- Years active
- 1978–present
- Spouse
- Jasmine Pahl
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Mike
- Family name
- Mills
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Orange County
- Occupation
- voice actor
- Educated at
- University of Georgia
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Native language
- American English
- Genre
- alternative rock
- Instrument
- musical keyboard
- Image
- MikeMills.jpg
- Residence
- Athens
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- Commons category
- Mike Mills
- date of birth
- 1958-12-17
- handedness
- right-handedness
- start of work period
- 1980-00-00
- social media followers
- 55074
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Encyclopedic overview
Michael Edward Mills (born December 17, 1958) is an American multi-instrumentalist, singer, and composer who was a founding member of the alternative rock band R.E.M. Though known primarily as the bass guitarist and backing vocalist of R.E.M., his musical repertoire also includes keyboards and occasional lead vocals. He contributed to a majority of the band's musical compositions and is the only member to have had formal musical training.
Early life
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Mike Mills” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.