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Jeff Buckley
Raised in California, Buckley always resisted comparisons with his late father,
folk singer Tim Buckley. Initially he adopted his stepfather's surname and was
known as Scotty Moorhead, insisting that his mother, a classically trained
cellist and pianist, influenced him far more than his father. He started playing
guitar at five, joined a jazz band and studied music in Hollywood before moving
to New York, where his discovery of Pakistani qawwali devotional music had a big
effect on him, reflected in his own spiritual songwriting. Helped by his
father's ex-manager Herb Cohen, he be...
