Van Dyke Parks
USA
Born: 03 January 1943
Years Active: 60, 70, 80, 90, 2000
Genres: Pop/Rock, Country, Folk, Avant-Garde
Styles: Singer/Songwriter, Folk/Country Rock, Folk-Rock, Folk/Country Rock, Folk-Rock, Folk/Country Rock, Experimental, Modern Composition, Baroque Pop, Early Pop/Rock, Pop/Rock, Experimental Rock, Art-Rock/Experimental
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In a field where the term "genius" is handed out freely, Van Dyke Parks is the real article. As a session musician, composer, arranger, lyricist, and singer, he's contributed significantly to several decades' worth of inimitable masterpieces credited to other artists, as well as generating two or three masterpieces of his own. Born in Hattiesburg, MS, in 1941, he was a musical prodigy and attended the American Boychoir School in Princeton, NJ. He studied the clarinet and also worked as a child actor, on-stage and on television, co-starring with...
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