Michael Stipe
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
87
Gender
Male
Birthday
1960-01-04 (65 years old)
Place of Birth
Decatur, Georgia, USA
Michael Stipe
Biography
John Michael Stipe (born January 4, 1960) is an American singer, songwriter and artist, best known as the lead singer and lyricist of alternative rock band R.E.M. He is known for his vocal quality, poetic lyrics and unique stage presence. Possessing a distinctive voice, Stipe has been noted for the "mumbling" style of his early career. Since the mid-1980s, Stipe has sung in "wailing, keening, arching vocal figures" that R.E.M. biographer David Buckley compared to Celtic folk artists and Muslim muezzin. He was in charge of R.E.M.'s visual aspect, often selecting album artwork and directing many of the band's music videos. Outside the music industry, he owns and runs two film production studios, C-00 and Single Cell Pictures. As a member of R.E.M., Stipe was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2007. As a singer-songwriter, Stipe influenced a wide range of artists, including Kurt Cobain of Nirvana and Thom Yorke of Radiohead. Bono of U2 has described his voice as "extraordinary", and Yorke told The Guardian that Stipe is his favorite lyricist, saying "I loved the way he would take an emotion and then take a step back from it and in doing so make it so much more powerful." From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Known For
The Simpsons
Saturday Night Live
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
The Colbert Report
Real Time with Bill Maher
The One Show
The Cleveland Show
Anderson Cooper 360°
MTV Video Music Awards
Boston Public
Late Night with Jimmy Fallon
Austin City Limits
Parkinson
Space Ghost Coast to Coast
The Frank Skinner Show
New Adventures in Hi-Fi Stereophonic on Film
MTV Unplugged
Anthem
Slacker Uprising
6 Days
Arena Brains
This Is Not a Show: Live at the Olympia in Dublin
Sarah Kuttner – Die Show
R.E.M. - Falls to Climb
Rockpalast
R.E.M.: In View 1988-2003 (The Best of R.E.M.)
Trailblazer Honors
Beastie Boys Story
Seven Ages of Rock
Iconoclasts
R.E.M.: MTV Unplugged No. 2.0
Olive, the Other Reindeer
Patti Smith: Dream of Life
Louder Than You Think
Tibetan Freedom Concert
Radiohead: Tibetan Freedom Concert
What Doesn’t Kill Me: The Life and Music of Vic Chesnutt
12-12-12 | The Concert for Sandy Relief
R.E.M.: Parallel
R.E.M.: Road Movie
Weirdo: The Story of Five Eight
Al TV
R.E.M.: This Way Up
Athens, GA Inside/Out
R.E.M.: Rough Cut
R.E.M. - Out Of Time
MTV's 10th Anniversary Special
R.E.M. - Monster
R.E.M.: Live at The Capitol Theater
R.E.M. Unplugged: The Complete 1991 and 2001 Sessions
R.E.M. - Automatic Unearthed
R.E.M.: Live at the Raleigh Underground
R.E.M. by MTV
Jim & Andy: The Great Beyond
Left of Reckoning
R.E.M.: Pop Screen
R.E.M.: MTV Unplugged
R.E.M.: Live at Shoreline Amphitheatre 1998/10/17
R.E.M. : Perfect Square
TV total
R.E.M.: When the Light is Mine
1 Giant Leap
The Making of Olive, The Other Reindeer
R.E.M: Shocking Club, Milan, Italy
R.E.M.
R.E.M.: Succumbs
Hansa Studios: By the Wall 1976-90
R.E.M.: Live at Shoreline Amphitheatre 1998/10/18
R.E.M. - Automatic for the People
Song Exploder
R.E.M. Tourfilm
R.E.M. Live from Austin, TX
R.E.M.: A Stirling Performance
Color of a Brisk and Leaping Day
R.E.M. Live
Creem: America's Only Rock 'n' Roll Magazine
Shadow Play: The Making of Anton Corbijn
R.E.M. at the BBC
Mojica In The Snow: Tonight I Incarnate At Sundance!
R.E.M. at Rockpalast
R.E.M. - Live At The Rock Am Ring
R.E.M. - Live In Athens (MTV) 2008
R.E.M. - This Film Is On
R.E.M.
Speed Racer: Welcome to the World of Vic Chesnutt
Dashboard Confessional: MTV2 Album Covers
R.E.M. Live in Stockholm
