Now Viewing: david_bowieTag type: Character Tag refers to images featuring or referencing this iconic British actor/singer. He was born on January 8, 1947 in Brixton, London, England and was born as David Robert Jones. He began his career on 1962, forming his first band, under his real name as Davy Jones. However, he didn't like this name and took the stage name David Bowie in 1967, which he used for the rest of his life. He made his big musical breakthrough on 1968 with Space Oddity. Since then, he had a long and prolific career that only ended with his passing due to cancer on January 10, 2016. Throughout his career, he sold 140 million albums internationally and won 2 Grammy Awards and Four Brit Awards. While primarily a rock musician, he was known for being very experimental, constantly reinventing his music and image every few years. Besides his singing, he was able to play a wide variety of instruments, such as guitar, keyboard, xylophone, saxophone, drums, etc. He helped popularize glam rock in the 1970s, a genre of rock music whose singers often had a flamboyant and androgynous image. Even before he started acting in films and in theatre, he had already created and played characters of his own, such as Ziggy Stardust during the early 1970s. He studied mime and acting under Lindsay Kemp, which aided him in creating his characters/stage persona. As a film actor he often played otherworldly and eccentric characters. Not only was his music influential, but so was his image. He was famous for his androgynous beauty and was an influence on many fictional characters with a similar look. The website Video Game Lookalikes has a separate page just for characters who look like him. He has even influenced science with the spider Heteropoda davidbowie and the asteroid 342843 Davidbowie were named after him. Although his actual sexuality was often a topic of debate and at various stages of his life he gave different answers to the question, he is often credited with helping to further the acceptance of homosexuality and bisexuality thanks to his work such as Ziggy Stardust. He is the father of film director Duncan Jones, who is the son of his first wife Mary Angela Barnett. Bowie married his second wife, Somali-American model Iman on April 24, 1992 and the two remained together for the rest of his life. Other Wiki Information Last updated: 03/26/16 9:14 AM by jojosstand This entry is not locked and you can edit it as you see fit. |
     
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