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Nick Cave is an Australian musician and singer known for his distinctive voice and songwriting across multiple genres. He matters because he has been an influential figure in rock and alternative music for decades, shaping the sound and artistic direction of contemporary music.
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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
Acting · 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
- 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
Recent publications · Crossref
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- The diagnosis of mild cognitive impairment due to Alzheimer's disease: Recommendations from the National Institute on Aging‐Alzheimer's Association workgroups on diagnostic guidelines for Alzheimer's disease
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- Genome-wide association study of 14,000 cases of seven common diseases and 3,000 shared controls
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Quotes
- “The song is heroic because the song confronts death. The song is immortal and bravely stares down our own extinction. The song emerges from the spirit world with a true message: Some day I will tell you how to slay the dragon.”
- “Do you want to know how to write a song? Song-writing is about counterpoint. Counterpoint is the key. Putting two disparate images beside each other and seeing which way the sparks fly. Like letting a small child in the same room as, I don't know, a Mongolian psychopath or something, and just sitting back and seeing what happens. Then you send in a clown, say, on a tricycle, and again, you wait, and you watch ... And if that doesn't do it... you shoot the clown.”
- “Do I personally believe in a personal God? No.”
- “God has matured. He is not the impulsive, bowelless being of the Testaments - the vehement glorymonger, with His bag of cheap carny tricks and his booming voice - the fiery huckster with his burning bushes and his wonder wands. Nowadays God knows what He wants and He knows who He wants.”
- “My responsibility as an artist is to turn up at the page or the piano or the microphone. The rest is up to God.”
- “The actualising of God through the medium of the love song remains my prime motivation as an artist.”
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Wikidata facts
- Notable work
- And the Ass Saw the Angel
- Official website
- www.theredhandfiles.com
- Image
- Nick Cave (2021).jpg
- Number of children
- 4
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- Nick Cave
- date of birth
- 1957-09-22
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- Nick Cave
- birth name
- Nicholas Edward Cave
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- Nick Cave
- start of work period
- 1973-00-00
- social media followers
- 143959
- P12674
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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.