Smith, Elliott

Elliott Smith
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Name	Smith, Elliott Gender: M
Birthname	Steven Paul Smith
born on	6 August 1969 at 00:59 (= 12:59 AM )
Place	Omaha, Nebraska, 41n16, 95w56
Timezone	CDT h5w (is daylight saving time)
Data source	Quoted BC/BR Rodden Rating AA Collector: Scholfield
Astrology data	13°36' 27°02 Asc. 29°15'

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Elliott Smith
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Biography

American singer-songwriter and musician.

Smith was raised primarily in Texas, and resided for a significant portion of his life in Portland, Oregon, the area in which he first gained popularity. Smith's primary instrument was the guitar, but he was also proficient with piano, clarinet, bass guitar, drums and harmonica. Smith had a distinctive vocal style, characterized by his "whispery, spiderweb-thin delivery", and used multi-tracking to create vocal layers, textures and harmonies.

After playing in the rock band Heatmiser for several years, Smith began his solo career in 1994, with releases on the independent record labels Cavity Search and Kill Rock Stars (KRS). In 1997, he signed a contract with DreamWorks Records, the label for which he recorded two albums. Smith rose to mainstream prominence when his song "Miss Misery"—included in the soundtrack for the film Good Will Hunting—was nominated for an Oscar in the Best Original Song category in 1998.

Smith suffered from depression, alcoholism and drug dependence, and these topics often appear in his lyrics. On 21 October 2003, at age 34, he died in Los Angeles, California, from two stab wounds to the chest. The autopsy evidence was inconclusive as to whether the wounds were self-inflicted. At the time of his death, Smith was working on his sixth studio album, From a Basement on the Hill, which was posthumously completed and released.

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Events

• Death, Mysterious 21 October 2003 (possible homicide or suicide)
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Source Notes

Sy Scholfield quotes Benjamin Nugent, "Elliott Smith and the Big Nothing" (DaCapo, 2005), p. 9: "STEVEN PAUL SMITH was born at 12:59 a.m. on August 6, 1969, at Clarkson Hospital in Omaha . . . according to his birth certificate."

Categories

• Personal : Death : Unusual

• Vocation : Entertain/Music : Instrumentalist

• Vocation : Entertain/Music : Song writer

• Vocation : Entertain/Music : Vocalist/ Pop, Rock, etc.