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Nick Cave, born Nicholas Edward Cave on 22 September 1957 in Warracknabeal, Victoria, Australia, is an Australian actor, singer, composer, and novelist. He is a member of the bands Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Grinderman, and The Birthday Party. His musical work spans genres including rock, alternative rock, gothic rock, garage rock, ambient, art pop, and film scores. Cave performs on guitar, piano, and voice, and his voice type is bass. He has been active since 1973 and works in Berlin.
Cave is associated with Mute Records and speaks English. He was educated at Caulfield Grammar School. His written works include *Stories for Ways and Means*, *Kusmuk Torbası Şarkısı*, *Letras*, and *De dood van Bunny Munro*. He has also worked in the acting department.
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 22 September 1957
- Works
- 52
Top works
- AS-FIX-E-8
- Stories for Ways and Means
- Kusmuk Torbası Şarkısı
- Letras
- De dood van Bunny Munro
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Film & TV
Warracknabeal, Victoria, Australia
Nicholas Edward Cave is an Australian musician, singer-songwriter, author, screenwriter, composer and film actor, best known as the frontman of the rock band Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds. He has appeared in some 15 feature films and video shorts, plus a heap of documentaries. Nick Cave has also composed a large number of scores, some of them with his musical partner Warren Ellis.
Known for
- Broken English — Self2026
- Kylie — Self2026
- The Extraordinary Miss Flower — Self2025
- Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: The Wild God Tour — Self2025
- Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Accor Arena, Paris - ARTE Concert — Self2025
- Irvine Welsh: Reality Is Not Enough — Narrator2025
- Wim Wenders: Der ewig Suchende — Self2025
- Memoir of a Snail — Bill Clarke (voice)2024
- The Making of Wild God — Nick Cave2024
- But We Had Music — (Voice)2024
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- Australia
- Active from
- 1957
Discography
Member of
- The Boys Next Door1977–1980
- The Birthday Party1980–1983
- Nick Cave & the Bad Seedssince 1983
- The Immaculate Consumptive1983–1983
- Grindermansince 2006
- The Bootleggers
- Moron Tabernacle Choir
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 599,185
- Total plays
- 7,992,854
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Nicholas Edward Cave AO (born 22 September 1957) is an Australian singer, songwriter, author, screenwriter, composer and occasional actor, best known for fronting the rock band Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds. Cave's music is generally characterized by his baritone voice, emotional intensity, a wide variety of influences and lyrical obsessions with death, religion, love and violence. Born and raised in rural Victoria, Cave studied art before fronting The Birthday Party, one of Melbourne's leading pos
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Australia
- Place of birth
- Warracknabeal
- Spouse
- Susie Bick
- Occupation
- singer-songwriter
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Notable work
- And the Ass Saw the Angel
- Field of work
- music
- Genre
- blues
- Instrument
- piano
- Record label
- Mute Records
- Official website
- www.theredhandfiles.com
- Image
- Nick Cave (2021).jpg
- Number of children
- 4
- Work location
- Berlin
- Voice type
- bass
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- Commons category
- Nick Cave
- date of birth
- 1957-09-22
- topic's main category
- Category:Nick Cave
- name in native language
- Nick Cave
- birth name
- Nicholas Edward Cave
- Commons gallery
- Nick Cave
- start of work period
- 1973-00-00
- social media followers
- 143959
- different from
- Nick Cave
- P12674
- Denizli Province
- nominated for
- Academy Award for Best Original Song
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Encyclopedic overview
Nicholas Edward Cave (born 22 September 1957) is an Australian singer, musician and writer. He is the frontman of the rock band Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds. Known for his baritone voice, Cave's music is characterised by emotional intensity, a wide variety of influences and lyrical obsessions with death, religion, love, and violence.
Born and raised in rural Victoria, Cave studied art in Melbourne before fronting The Birthday Party, one of the city's leading post-punk bands, in the late 1970s. In 1980, the band moved to London, England. Disillusioned by their stay there, they evolved towards a darker and more challenging sound that helped inspire gothic rock, and they acquired a reputation as "the most violent live band in the world". Cave became recognised for his confrontational performances, his shock of black hair and pale, emaciated look. The band broke up soon after relocating to West Berlin in 1982. The following year, Cave formed Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, later described as one of rock's "most redoubtable, enduring" bands. Much of their early material is set in a mythic American Deep South, drawing on spirituals and Delta blues, while Cave's preoccupation with Old Testament notions of good versus evil culminated in what has been called his signature song, "The Mercy Seat" (1988), and in his debut novel, And the Ass Saw the Angel (1989). In 1988, he appeared in Ghosts… of the Civil Dead, an Australian prison film which he both co-wrote and scored.
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