Orville Peck
Canadian musician · South Africa · Musicians · Born 1988 · age 38
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Something wrong?A masked country singer whose face stays hidden and whose voice - a deep, calm bass-baritone - lands somewhere between Johnny Cash and Roy Orbison, wrapped in rockabilly and shoegaze distortion.
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, Then I was an actor and I wanted to do classical theatre, and that was one box. And then I was a singer and a songwriter, and that was a whole other box.
I remember thinking she was a character. I thought she was like Pee-wee Herman or something.
There's the kind of punk ethos and even sometimes sound that trickles into what I still do. I think I found a way, finally, to be entirely myself, and it turned into this project.
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Daniel Pitout, born January 6, 1988, in South Africa, adopted the name Orville Peck and built a country music career across the United States and Canada without ever showing his face publicly. His debut album Pony arrived in 2019, followed by the EP Show Pony in 2020. W Magazine noted his haunting guitar riffs drifting between rockabilly, blues, and dreamy shoegazing distortions. He released his second studio album Bronco in 2022, then took a self-imposed hiatus in 2023. His third album Stampede came out in 2024.
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