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 and the Bad
Seeds. Cave's music is generally characterised 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 in Melbourne before fronting The
Birthday Party, one of the city's leading post-punk bands, in the late
1970s. They relocated to London in 1980, but, disillusioned by life
there, evolved towards a darker, more challenging sound that helped
inspire gothic rock, and 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 moving to Berlin in 1982,
and Cave formed Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds the year after, 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). Also in 1988, he starred in
Ghosts... of the Civil Dead, an Australian prison film which he
co-wrote and scored.The 1990s saw Cave move to São Paulo and find
inspiration in the New Testament. He went on to achieve mainstream
success with quieter, piano-driven ballads, notably the Kylie Minogue
duet "Where the Wild Roses Grow" (1996), and "Into My Arms" (1997).
Based in Brighton, England by the early 2000s, Cave wrote the
Australian Western The Proposition (2005), composing its soundtrack
with frequent collaborator Warren Ellis. The pair's film score credits
include The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
(2007), The Road (2009) and Lawless (2012), and their garage rock side
project Grinderman has released two LPs since 2006. In 2009, he
released his second novel The Death of Bunny Munro, and starred in the
semi-fictional "day in the life" film 20,000 Days on Earth (2014). His
more recent musical work features ambient and electronic elements, as
well as increasingly abstract lyrics, informed in part by grief over
his son Arthur's 2015 death, which is explored in the documentary One
More Time with Feeling (2016) and the Bad Seeds' 17th and latest LP,
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