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Damon Albarn is an English singer, musician, songwriter, and record producer best known as the frontman of the band Blur and the co-creator of the virtual band Gorillaz. He has had a prolific and diverse career, contributing to numerous musical projects and genres over the years.
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About the Damon Albarn
Damon Albarn is an English musician. He is the frontman and main lyricist of the rock band Blur and the co-creator and primary musical contributor of the virtual band Gorillaz.
Raised in Leytonstone, East London, and around Colchester, Essex, Albarn attended the Stanway School, where he met the guitarist Graham Coxon, with whom he would later form Blur. They released their debut album Leisure in 1991. After spending long periods touring the US, Albarn’s songwriting became increasingly influenced by British bands from the 1960s. The result was the Blur albums Modern Life Is Rubbishand The Great Escapeand Think Tankincorporated influences from lo-fi, art rock, electronic and world music. These were followed by The Magic Whipand Wonder.landin the 2016 New Year Honours for services to music. In 2020, Albarn was granted Icelandic citizenship.
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Damon Albarn is an English singer, musician, songwriter and record producer from Whitechapel, London. He is the frontman and main lyricist of the rock band Blur and the co-creator and primary musical contributor of the virtual band Gorillaz.
Damon Albarn is the frontman and main lyricist of the rock band Blur, and the co-creator and primary musical contributor of the virtual band Gorillaz.
Damon Albarn was born on March 23, 1968.
After spending long periods touring the US, Damon Albarn’s songwriting became increasingly influenced by British bands from the 1960s, which is reflected in Blur’s albums like Modern Life Is Rubbish, Parklife, and The Great Escape.
Damon Albarn has been involved in other notable projects, including the supergroups the Good, the Bad & the Queen and Rocket Juice & the Moon, as well as composing film soundtracks and scoring stage productions.
In 2008, Damon Albarn was named the 18th-most powerful person in British culture by The Daily Telegraph. In 2016, he received the Ivor Novello Award for Lifetime Achievement and was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) for services to music.
Damon Albarn formed the virtual band Gorillaz in 1998 with the comic book artist Jamie Hewlett.
17 Quotes by Damon Albarn
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It’s not like my old self – I’m not in character anymore, I’m me. I’m not hiding behind that anymore.
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When you’re doing a deal with someone in the southern Sahara, it’s a very different way of doing business than in London. You can’t sign them in the usual way because they’d end up getting ripped off, which would defeat the object of setting up a label like this.
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No, every album is something like a snapshot. It only shows one moment in time. It shows what we feel and think right at that point in time, nothing more and nothing less.
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You know, there are many alter egos and Gorillaz is a collective of alter egos, really. I think anyone who gets involved in it has to sort of accept that nothing is really as it seems.
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The things that make me happy most are my family and working.
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The cartoon is a metaphor really for the fact that it’s almost impossible in our celebrity obsessed culture to move around genres and sort of change you ideas, change your face, you know?
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Being in Blur has allowed me to travel and hear the music that’s being made all over the world.
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And there are no stars and that you’re never really sure who’s doing what and what voice is what and, you know what I mean? It’s supposed to be quite elusive.
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As a musician usually music is your way out.
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- 10.
As soon as it sounds fine, I’m on to the next thing, man.
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More and more, cultural groups are cross-pollinating, and we’re getting much more interesting art as a result.
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I’m not really one of those people who believes that if you’re a musician you can just leave that behind and start getting into politics.
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- 13.
I hope we can keep doing it this way – making music and art that are pure products of our influences while not really having to let the whole celebrity side of it get in the way. Then maybe more virtual bands will come out and do the same thing.
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The whole period has taught me that I enjoy being part of an ensemble rather than just a front man. Don’t get me wrong – I enjoy that too, but I get more enjoyment out of really listening to everyone.
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I was approached by Oxfam to go to Mali as their ambassador and get involved in their various initiatives out there. But I felt that was missing the point of using me, a musician.
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The Gorillaz cartoons seem more real to me than the actual people on TV. Because at least you know that there’s some intelligence behind the cartoons, and there’s a lot of work that’s gone into it, so it can’t all be just a lie.
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I can’t be bothered anymore about giving songs titles.
Damon AlbarnBritish musician