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Harry Nilsson

American singer-songwriter (1941-1994) · United States · Musicians · Died at 52

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A voice that could carry three octaves and a career that never touched a stage - Nilsson sold millions by staying in the studio, layering vocals into architecture and turning covers into canonical versions people assume are originals.

MusiciansSinger / MusicianSinger-SongwriterMusicClassicalMoviesScreenwritingUnited States

A life in dates

1994Died15 January 19941988The Presence of ChristmasAlbum1980Flash HarryAlbum1976...That's the Way It IsAlbum1975Duit on Mon DeiAlbum1974Pussy CatsAlbum1973Grammy Award for Best Male Pop Vocal PerformanceAwardA Little Touch of Schmilsson in the NightAlbum, 19731971Nilsson SchmilssonAlbum1970Grammy Award for Best Male Pop Vocal PerformanceAwardNilsson Sings NewmanAlbum, 19701969HarryAlbum1967Pandemonium Shadow ShowAlbum1966Spotlight on NilssonAlbum1941Born15 June 1941

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Albums 19

LFLosst and Founnd2019
PNPerfect Day: The Songs of Nilsson 1971-19932006
ABAt The BBC2004
LNLife Line: The Songs of Nilsson 1967-19711998
TCThe Presence of Christmas1988
FHFlash Harry1980
KNKnnillssonn1977
TI...That's the Way It Is1976
SASandman1976
DDDuit on Mon Dei1975
PCPussy Cats1974
ANA Little Touch of Schmilsson in the Night1973
SSSon of Schmilsson1972
NSNilsson Schmilsson1971
NNNilsson Sings Newman1970
HAHarry1969
ABAerial Ballet1968
PSPandemonium Shadow Show1967
SNSpotlight on Nilsson1966

Awards

Grammy Award for Best Male Pop Vocal Performance1973
Grammy Award for Best Male Pop Vocal Performance1970

About this person

Born in Brooklyn in 1941, he fled west as a teenager and wrote songs while programming computers at a bank until RCA signed him in 1967. Between 1968 and 1974 he landed nine top 40 singles, including "Everybody's Talkin'" and "Without You", and moved two gold albums without ever touring - a trick almost no one else pulled off. The early seventies brought John Lennon into his circle, along with Ringo Starr and the Hollywood Vampires drinking club, and his voice started to fray after the standards album that came a decade too early. He called himself retired after the Popeye soundtrack, then turned to gun control activism following Lennon's murder in 1980. Heart failure took him in 1994, mid-session on an album he never finished.

Country
United States
Category
Musicians
Type
Singer / Musician
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1941 to 1994 · aged 52

In common with Harry

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