Michael Stipe

Si John Michael Stipe (ipinanganak noong 4 Enero 1960) ay isang American singer-songwriter na mas kilala bilang lead singer at lyricist ng alternative rock band na R.E.M. sa buong kasaysayan nito. Kilala siya sa kanyang natatanging kalidad ng boses, makatang lyrics at natatanging pagkakaroon ng entablado.

Ang pagkakaroon ng isang natatanging tinig, si Stipe ay napansin para sa "mumbling" na estilo ng kanyang maagang karera. Mula noong kalagitnaan ng 1980s, kumakanta si Stipe sa "pag-iyak, pagpapasigla, pagpukpok ng mga figure ng boses" na ang bi biograpo na si David Buckley kumpara sa mga artista ng Celtic folk at Muslim muezzin. Siya ang namamahala sa visual na aspeto ng REM, na madalas na pumipili ng likhang sining ng album at nagdidirekta sa marami sa mga music video ng banda. Sa labas ng industriya ng musika, nagmamay-ari siya at nagpapatakbo ng dalawang studio sa paggawa ng pelikula, C-00 at Larawan ng Single Cell.

Bilang isang miyembro ng R.E.M., si Stipe ay pinasok sa Rock and Roll Hall of Fame noong 2007. Bilang isang mang-aawit ng kanta, naiimpluwensyahan ni Stipe ang isang malawak na hanay ng mga artista, kasama sina Kurt Cobain ng Nirvana at Thom Yorke ng Radiohead. Inilarawan ni Bono ng U2 ang kanyang tinig bilang "extraordinary" at sinabi ni Thom Yorke sa The Guardian na si Stipe ay ang kanyang paboritong lyricist, na nagsasabing "Gustung-gusto ko ang paraan na kumuha siya ng isang damdamin at pagkatapos ay kumuha ng isang hakbang mula dito at sa paggawa nito gawin itong mas malakas."

Discography 
Solo releases

 "In the Sun" (with Chris Martin) (2006)
 "Rio Grande" (with Courtney Love) on Son of Rogues Gallery: Pirate Ballads, Sea Songs & Chanteys (2013)
 "Your Capricious Soul" (2019)
 "Drive to the Ocean" (2020)

Guest appearances

 With The Golden Palominos: "Boy (Go)", "Omaha", and "Clustering Train" on Visions of Excess (1985); "Alive and Living Now" on Drunk with Passion (1991)
 With Our Favorite Band: "Dreamin' Of Eternity" Saturday Nights ... Sunday Mornings (1987)
 With 10,000 Maniacs: "A Campfire Song" on In My Tribe (1987); "To Sir, with Love" on Few & Far Between EP (1993)
 With the Indigo Girls: "Kid Fears" on Indigo Girls (1988); "I'll Give You My Skin" on Rarities (2005)
 With Natalie Merchant and Mark Bingham and The Roches: "Opening Melody – Little April Shower" on Stay Awake: Various Interpretations of Music from Vintage Disney Films
 With Syd Straw: "Future 40's" on Surprise (1989)
 With The Blue Aeroplanes: "What It Is" on Swagger (1990)
 With Robyn Hitchcock: "She Doesn't Exist" on Perspex Island, and "Dark Green Energy", 'B'-side to "Ultra Unbelievable Love" (1991)
 With Billy Bragg: "You Woke Up My Neighbourhood" on Don't Try This at Home (1991)
 With Neneh Cherry: "Trout" on Homebrew (1992)
 With Kristin Hersh: "Your Ghost" on Hips and Makers (1994)
 "My Gang" on Kerouac: Kicks Joy Darkness (1997)
 With Vic Chesnutt: "Injured Bird" on The End of Violence (1997)
 With Patti Smith: "Last Call" on Peace and Noise (1997); "Glitter in Their Eyes" on Gung-Ho (2000)
 With Rain Phoenix: "Happiness" on the soundtrack for the film Happiness (1998)
 With Grant Lee Buffalo: "Everybody Needs a Little Sanctuary" on Jubilee (1998)
 With Spacehog: "Almond Kisses" on The Chinese Album (1999)
 With Utah Saints: "Sun", "Punk Club", "Rhinoceros" and "Wiggedy Wack" on Two (2000)
 With Community Trolls: "Tainted Obligation" (1983) on To Understand: The Early Recordings of Matthew Sweet (2002)
 With Artists Against AIDS Worldwide: "What's Going On" (2001)
 With Faultline: "Greenfields" on Your Love Means Everything (2002)
 With 1 Giant Leap: "The Way You Dream" on 1 Giant Leap (2002); I Have Seen Trouble on What About Me? (2009)
 With Stéphane Pompougnac: "Clumsy" on Living on the Edge (2003)
 "L'Hôtel" (Serge Gainsbourg cover) on Monsieur Gainsbourg Revisited (2006)
 With The New York Dolls: "Dancing on the Lip of a Volcano" on One Day It Will Please Us to Remember Even This (2006)
 With Placebo: "Broken Promise" on Meds (2006)
 With Miguel Bosé: "Lo que hay es lo que ves" on Papito (2007)
 With Maria Taylor: "Cartoons And Forever Plans" on LadyLuck (2009)
 "Souris nocturne" on Souris Calle (2018)
 With Rain Phoenix: "Time Is the Killer" on Time Gone (2019)
 With Big Red Machine: "No Time For Love Like Now" (2020)

Produksyon Bilang karagdagan sa paggawa ng co sa karamihan ng output ng R.E.M., si Stipe ay gumawa din ng mga sumusunod:

 Hugo Largo: "Drum" (1988), "Opal/Warner Brothers" (1988)
 With Vic Chesnutt: "Little" (1990), "West of Rome" (1992)
 With Magnapop: Magnapop (1992)
 With Fischerspooner: Sir (2018)

Mga Tala

Mga Sanggunian 

 Platt, John (editor). The R.E.M. Companion: Two Decades of Commentary. Schirmer, 1998. ISBN 0-02-864935-4
 Buckley, David. R.E.M.: Fiction: An Alternative Biography. Virgin, 2002. ISBN 1-85227-927-3
 Jovanovic, Rob. Michael Stipe: The Biography. Portrait, 2006. ISBN 0-7499-5098-6

Mga panlabas na link 

  
 Tumblr blog 
    
 Allmusic Profile

Ipinanganak noong 1960
Nabubuhay na mga tao
Mga mang-aawit ng rock mula sa Estados Unidos
Mga musiko mula sa Estados Unidos
R.E.M.
Musika ng Georgia (estado)