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Elliott Smith
Cherished as one of the great singer-songwriters of the 1990s, Elliott Smith was
a shy, melancholy outsider, whose gentle, bitter-sweet ballads made him a cult
favourite of indie fans before his sudden death in 2003 at only 34-years-old.
Raised in Duncanville, Texas, he grew up in a religious household with an
abusive step-father, but found an escape in music and spent his childhood
learning to play guitar and piano. Moving to Portland, Oregon at 14 to live with
his father, he played in several high school groups and, while studying
philosophy and political science at Hampshir...
