Michael Stipe
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
88
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
Real Time with Bill Maher
Saturday Night Live
The Colbert Report
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
The One Show
The One Show
Austin City Limits
Anderson Cooper 360°
MTV Video Music Awards
Rockpalast
The Cleveland Show
Boston Public
Parkinson
Late Night with Jimmy Fallon
Space Ghost Coast to Coast
Sarah Kuttner – Die Show
MTV Unplugged
The Frank Skinner Show
12-12-12 | The Concert for Sandy Relief
Slacker Uprising
Patti Smith: Dream of Life
Al TV
Seven Ages of Rock
Anthem
Olive, the Other Reindeer
Beastie Boys Story
Iconoclasts
Trailblazer Honors
R.E.M.: Live at The Capitol Theater
The Making of Olive, The Other Reindeer
Left of Reckoning
R.E.M.: Road Movie
R.E.M. Unplugged: The Complete 1991 and 2001 Sessions
Athens, GA Inside/Out
Jim & Andy: The Great Beyond
New Adventures in Hi-Fi Stereophonic on Film
Tibetan Freedom Concert
TV total
R.E.M. By MTV
Hansa Studios: By the Wall 1976-90
MTV's 10th Anniversary Special
R.E.M. - Out Of Time
R.E.M.: Parallel
Radiohead: Tibetan Freedom Concert
Louder Than You Think
6 Days
R.E.M.: MTV Unplugged No. 2.0
R.E.M.: MTV Unplugged
1 Giant Leap
R.E.M. : Perfect Square
R.E.M.: When the Light is Mine
Arena Brains
R.E.M.: Pop Screen
Song Exploder
R.E.M. - Monster
Weirdo: The Story of Five Eight
Shadow Play: The Making of Anton Corbijn
R.E.M.: Live at the Raleigh Underground
R.E.M. at the BBC
R.E.M.: In View 1988-2003 (The Best of R.E.M.)
R.E.M. - Automatic Unearthed
R.E.M.: Succumbs
R.E.M. - Falls to Climb
R.E.M.: Rough Cut
R.E.M.: Live at Shoreline Amphitheatre 1998/10/17
R.E.M.: Live at Shoreline Amphitheatre 1998/10/18
R.E.M. Live
R.E.M. Tourfilm
R.E.M.: This Way Up
R.E.M. at Rockpalast
R.E.M.
Mojica In The Snow: Tonight I Incarnate At Sundance!
R.E.M: Shocking Club, Milan, Italy
What Doesn’t Kill Me: The Life and Music of Vic Chesnutt
R.E.M. - Automatic for the People
Color of a Brisk and Leaping Day
R.E.M.: A Stirling Performance
R.E.M. Live from Austin, TX
R.E.M. - This Film Is On
This Is Not a Show: Live at the Olympia in Dublin
R.E.M.
Creem: America's Only Rock 'n' Roll Magazine
R.E.M. - Live In Athens (MTV) 2008
R.E.M. Live in Stockholm
R.E.M. - Live At The Rock Am Ring
Dashboard Confessional: MTV2 Album Covers
Speed Racer: Welcome to the World of Vic Chesnutt
