Duncan Sheik

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Duncan Sheik (born November 18, 1969) is an American singer-songwriter, composer, and actor. Sheik is known for his 1996 debut single "Barely Breathing", which earned him a Grammy Award nomination for Best Male Pop Vocal Performance. He has composed music for motion pictures and Broadway musicals, winning the 2007 Tony Awards for Best Original Score and Best Orchestrations for his work on the musical Spring Awakening.

Early life

Sheik is a native of Montclair, New Jersey. Following his parents' divorce, he split time between his father's house in New Jersey and his mother's home in South Carolina.[1] He is the half-brother of Broadway actress Kacie Sheik.[2] Sheik's Juilliard-trained grandmother introduced him to the piano, and he later took up the electric guitar. By age 12, he was playing guitar with high school students in a cover band.[3] After graduating from Phillips Academy, Andover in 1988,[4] Sheik studied semiotics at Brown University;[5] while at Brown, he played guitar in a band with fellow Brown student Lisa Loeb. Following his graduation from Brown in 1992, he moved to Los Angeles.[3]

Career

Early in his musical career, Sheik played guitar for other artists, including Liz and Lisa (with Elizabeth Mitchell and Lisa Loeb). Sheik also played on His Boy Elroy's 1993 album through his connections from a fellow Brown alum, Tracee Ellis Ross.[6]

Singer-songwriter

In 1996, Sheik released his self-titled debut album, which was certified gold.[7] The album featured the hit single "Barely Breathing", which peaked at number 16[8] and remained on the Billboard Hot 100 for 55 consecutive weeks.[9] "Barely Breathing" also enjoyed Top 20 success on Adult Contemporary radio,[8] reached No. 2 on the Adult Top 40 charts,[8] and garnered Sheik a Grammy Award nomination for Best Male Pop Vocal Performance.[10]

In 1998, Sheik recorded "Embraceable You" for Red Hot + Rhapsody, a George Gershwin tribute to increase AIDS awareness, and also recorded "Songbird" for another tribute, Legacy: A Tribute to Fleetwood Mac's Rumours.Script error: No such module "Unsubst". Also in 1998, Sheik released Humming, an experimental follow-up with string arrangements.Script error: No such module "Unsubst".

Sheik sang a duet with singer Howard Jones on Jones' 2000 single entitled Someone You Need.[11]

Sheik released Phantom Moon, a Nick Drake-influenced album on which he collaborated with poet and writer Steven Sater, in 2001.Script error: No such module "Unsubst". The following year, Sheik released Daylight, a brighter, more modern-sounding album which included the singles, "On A High" and "Half-Life".Script error: No such module "Unsubst". After a four-year recording break, Sheik released White Limousine (2006), an album which included companion software on a DVD-ROM to remix individual tracks.Script error: No such module "Unsubst". In 2008, Sheik was a judge at the 7th annual Independent Music Awards.Script error: No such module "Unsubst".

In 2009 he released Whisper House, a concept album which provided the score for the musical of the same name.[12] The stage musical premiered at The Old Globe Theatre in San Diego in January 2010, after a workshop at Vassar College, produced by New York Stage and Film in 2009.[13][14]

In 2011, Sheik released Covers 80's, an album including covers of popular 1980s songs. Concert dates in support of the album were later canceled due to Sheik seeking treatment for alcohol addiction.[15] A remixed version of the album was released the following year.[16] Sheik released a new studio album entitled Legerdemain in October 2015.[17]

Composer

In addition to being a singer-songwriter, Sheik has also composed music for plays, musicals, and movie soundtracks. He composed original music for the 2002 New York Shakespeare Festival production of Twelfth Night.[18]

In 2004, he composed the score for the film A Home at the End of the World. The AllMusic reviewer wrote: "...takes the sensitivity and tension of the film's plot and crafts incidental music and new songs that complement the movie well."[19] He composed the score for the 2005 film Through the Fire with Pete Miser.[20][21]

Sheik wrote the music for Spring Awakening (2006) in collaboration with Steven Sater. Written over a period of eight years, the musical, which premiered off-Broadway during the summer, opened on Broadway to critical acclaim later in the fall. The musical was based on the controversial German expressionist play The Awakening of Spring, written by Frank Wedekind. Sheik won the 2006 Tony Award for Best Orchestrations for his work on Spring Awakening,[22] and he and Sater won a Tony Award for Best Original Score.[23] In addition, Spring Awakening won the Tony Award for Best Musical[24] and a Grammy Award for Best Musical Show Album.[25] The guitar that Sheik used to compose songs for Spring Awakening was displayed at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center.[26] As of 2012, Sheik was composing music for a feature-film adaptation of Spring Awakening, an adaptation almost a decade in the making.[27]

In 2012, Sheik wrote Alice By Heart, an adaptation of Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, along with collaborator Sater. Directed by Jessie Nelson with musical direction by Lance Horne, the musical was workshopped at the Royal National Theatre and commissioned by the National Theatre Connections.[28]

Sheik wrote the music and lyrics to the 2013 musical adaptation of American Psycho,[29] which opened at the Almeida Theatre in London, and was later staged on Broadway in 2016.[30]

In 2013, Sheik wrote the music for the musical adaptation of the novel Because of Winn-Dixie, which premiered at the Arkansas Repertory Theatre.[31] Dixie was a collaboration with then-director John Tartaglia and Nell Benjamin, who wrote the book and lyrics.[31] The musical ran at the Goodspeed Opera House, East Haddam, Connecticut from July 2019 to September 2019, directed by John Rando.[32]

In 2015, Sheik wrote the musical thriller Noir with Kyle Jarrow. It premiered as part of New York Stage and Film's season in July to August 2015 at the Powerhouse Theater at Vassar College. Inspired by live radio plays and classic film noir, the musical was directed by Rachel Chavkin.[33][34][35]

In 2016 he prepared the music for the Shakespeare Theatre Company (Washington, D.C.) production of The Taming of the Shrew, described in The Washington Post as "an assortment of preexisting songs by singer-songwriter Duncan Sheik".[36]

Other work

Sheik produced singer-songwriter Micah Green's 2000 debut album[37]Template:Better source needed as well as his 2012 follow-up.[38][39][40]Template:Better source needed

In 2000, Sheik wrote the foreword to The Way of Youth: Buddhist Common Sense for Handling Life's Questions, by Soka Gakkai International leader Daisaku Ikeda.Script error: No such module "Unsubst".

In 2006, Sheik recorded the song "A Purple Trail" for Other Songs and Dances, Vol. 1. In 2008, Sheik participated in Songs for Tibet: The Art of Peace, an initiative to support Tibet, Dalai Lama, and Tenzin Gyatso.[41]

Personal life

Concert dates in support of Sheik's 2011 album Covers 80's were canceled when Sheik sought treatment for alcohol use disorder.[15] In a message to fans on his tumblr blog, Sheik noted that he had entered a treatment center on the same day his latest album was released and had told his staff, "My record is coming out and I’m checking in."[42]

Sheik has a daughter with his girlfriend, model Nora Ariffin.[43][44]

Sheik practices Nichiren Buddhism and is a member of the US branch of the worldwide Buddhist association Soka Gakkai International.[45]

Awards and nominations

Year Awards Work Category Result
1997 Billboard Music Awards Himself Top Adult Top 40 Artist Template:Nom
"Barely Breathing" Top Adult Top 40 Track Template:Won
1998 Grammy Awards Best Male Pop Vocal Performance Template:Nom
1999 BMI Pop Awards Award-Winning Song Template:Won
2007 Tony Awards Spring Awakening Best Original Score Template:Won
Best Orchestrations Template:Won
Drama Desk Awards Outstanding Music Template:Won
Outstanding Orchestrations Template:Nom
2008 Grammy Awards Best Musical Show Album Template:Won
2016 Outer Critics Circle Awards American Psycho Outstanding New Score Template:Nom

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Discography

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Albums

Studio albums

Year Album details Peak chart positions Certifications
(sales threshold)
US
[46] 		US Heat
[47]
1996 Duncan Sheik 83 1
1998 Humming
  • Release date: October 6, 1998
  • Label: Atlantic, Rhino
  • Formats: CD, cassette, digital download, streaming
 163 —
2001 Phantom Moon
  • Release date: February 27, 2001
  • Label: Nonesuch
  • Formats: CD, cassette, digital download, streaming
 — —
2002 Daylight
  • Release date: August 22, 2002
  • Label: Atlantic, Rhino
  • Formats: CD, cassette, digital download, streaming
 110 —
2006 White Limousine
  • Release date: January 26, 2006
  • Label: Zoë
  • Formats: CD+DVD, digital download, streaming
 — —
2009 Whisper House 181 —
2011 Covers 80s
  • Release date: June 7, 2011
  • Label: Sneaky
  • Formats: CD, digital download, streaming
 — —
2015 Legerdemain
  • Release date: October 9, 2015
  • Label: Sneaky
  • Formats: CD, digital download, streaming
 — —
2022 Claptrap
  • Release date: August 26, 2022
  • Label: AntiFragile
  • Formats: Digital download, streaming
 — —
"—" denotes releases that did not chart

Live albums

Year Album details
2020 Live at the Cafe Carlyle (New York, NY / 2017)
  • Release date: December 4, 2020
  • Label: Sneaky, Missing Pieces
  • Formats: Digital download, streaming

Remix albums

Year Album details
2012 Covers 80s Remixed
  • Release date: November 6, 2012
  • Label: Sneaky
  • Formats: CD, digital download, streaming

Compilation albums

Year Album details
2006 Brighter/Later: A Duncan Sheik Anthology
  • Release date: October 23, 2006
  • Label: Rhino
  • Formats: 2xCD, digital download, streaming
2007 Greatest Hits - Brighter: A Duncan Sheik Collection
  • Release date: March 6, 2007
  • Label: Rhino
  • Formats: CD, digital download, streaming

Extended plays

Year Album details
2005 Rhino Hi-Five: Duncan Sheik
2011 Harvest (Music from the Motion Picture) (with David Poe)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
  • Release date: May 3, 2011
  • Label: Harvest Film
  • Formats: Digital download, streaming

Singles

Year Single Peak chart positions Album
CAN
[49] 		US
[50] 		US AC
[51] 		US Adult
[52] 		US Dance
[53] 		US Pop
[54]
1996 "Barely Breathing" 12 16 19 2 — 10 Duncan Sheik
1997 "She Runs Away" — — — 24 — —
"Reasons for Living" — — — — 3 —
"Wishful Thinking" — 103 — — — — Great Expectations (soundtrack)
1998 "Bite Your Tongue" — — — — — — Humming
1999 "That Says It All" — — — — — —
2001 "A Mirror in the Heart" — — — — — — Phantom Moon
2002 "On a High" — — — 21 1 — Daylight
"Half-Life" — — — — — —
2005 "White Limousine" — — — — — — White Limousine
"The Dawn's Request" — — — — — —
2008 "We're Here to Tell You" — — — — — — Whisper House
2009 "Earthbound Starlight" — — — — — —
"Play Your Part" — — — — — —
2012 "Shout" — — — — — — Covers Eighties Remixed
2013 "Lay Down Your Weapons" — — — — — — style="text-align:left;" rowspan="3" Template:Non-album single
2020 "Barely Breathing 2020 'Dear 45'" — — — — — —
2021 "Better Things For Better Living"
(with Simon Kafka)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		— — — — — —
2022 "Experience" — — — — — — Claptrap
"Maybe" — — — — — —
"Something Happening Here" — — — — — —
"Chimera II"
(featuring Oora)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		— — — — — —
"There's No Telling" — — — — — —
"—" denotes releases that did not chart

Stage credits

Film and television credits

1996
1997
1998
1999
2000
  • "View from the Other Side", Friends
  • "A Body Goes Down", Jeff Buckley: Goodbye and Hello
  • "Now or Never", Boys and Girls
2002
2003
2004
2005
2007
2010
  • "Mama Who Bore Me", 90210
2012
  • "Barely Breathing", Glee
  • "Barely Breathing", Girls

See also

References

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External links

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