Official website (http://www.ricocasek.com/)
Ric Ocasek
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American musician (1944–2019)
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Ric Ocasek was a musician whose professional career began in 1973 and concluded in 2019. He was the father of six children.
An official website serves as a media gallery for Ocasek, featuring exclusive photos and videos. The site is titled "Ric Ocasek | Official Site."
Ocasek died on September 15, 2019.
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Person · Open Library
- Works
- 3
Top works
- Good Times Roll
- Lyrics & prose
- Ric Ocasek - Letras
via Open Library + Wikidata
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 34,295
- Total plays
- 346,785
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Ric Ocasek (born Richard Otcasek on March 23, 1944, died September 15, 2019) was the vocalist and frontman for The Cars and a producer for several other groups, including Bad Brains, Suicide and Weezer. Ocasek released his first solo album in 1982. Beatitude is a somewhat more experimental variation of The Cars' New Wave rock sound. A more synthesizer-heavy follow up, This Side Of Paradise, was released in 1986. A minor hit, "Emotion In Motion" accompanied the album. <a href="https://www.last.f
Official website
Ric Ocasek | Official Site
The official website and media gallery for Ric Ocasek. Explore exclusive photos, videos, and more.
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Theodore
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Baltimore
- Place of death
- Manhattan
- Spouse
- Paulina Porizkova
- Occupation
- composer
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Native language
- English language
- Field of work
- singing
- Genre
- pop music
- Instrument
- guitar
- Record label
- Columbia Records
- Official website
- www.ricocasek.com
- Image
- Ric-Ocasek.jpg
- Number of children
- 6
- Voice type
- tenor
Show 10 more facts
- member of
- The Cars
- date of birth
- 1944-03-23
- Commons category
- Ric Ocasek
- cause of death
- heart disease
- start of work period
- 1973-00-00
- date of death
- 2019-09-15
- end of work period
- 2019-00-00
- birth name
- Richard Theodore Otcasek
- social media followers
- 30900
- manner of death
- natural causes
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