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Ben Gibbard

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American singer, songwriter and guitarist

United StatesMusiciansBorn 1976 · age 50
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Benjamin Gibbard is an American musician. He is best known as the lead vocalist and guitarist of the indie rock band Death Cab for Cutie, with whom he has recorded eleven studio albums, and as a member of the indie pop supergroup The Postal Service.

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Ben Gibbard
said · Oct 8, 2008
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I feel like there's a lot of beauty in the darkness of Narrow Stairs, but that's not really a place I'm ready to go to for a while.

Death Cab's Ben Gibbard: "The Next Record Will Be Softer" in SPIN magazine (8 October 2008)

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Ben Gibbard
said · Apr 10, 2008
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I pulled On The Road off the shelf and found myself reading it between classes, and at that time in my life it was exactly what I craved, exactly what I needed to hear.

Essay in Paste magazine (10 April 2008)

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Ben Gibbard
said · Apr 10, 2008
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If you tell certain people that you like Kerouac, they assume that’s all you read, like you don’t know anything else about literature.

Essay in Paste magazine (10 April 2008)

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Benjamin Gibbard is an American musician. He is best known as the lead vocalist and guitarist of the indie rock band Death Cab for Cutie, with whom he has recorded eleven studio albums, and as a member of the indie pop supergroup The Postal Service. Gibbard released his debut solo album, Former Lives (2012), and a collaborative studio album, One Fast Move or I'm Gone (2009), with Jay Farrar.

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United States
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Musicians
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Singer / Musician
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Born 1976 · age 50
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