Michael Stipe

Acting · 0.6 popularity

Age

Movies

Born: January 4, 1960
From: Decatur, Georgia, USA

Biography

John Michael Stipe (born January 4, 1960) is an American singer, songwriter and artist, best known as the lead singer and lyricist of alternative rock band R.E.M. He is known for his vocal quality, poetic lyrics and unique stage presence. Possessing a distinctive voice, Stipe has been noted for the "mumbling" style of his early career. Since the mid-1980s, Stipe has sung in "wailing, keening, arching vocal figures" that R.E.M. biographer David Buckley compared to Celtic folk artists and Muslim muezzin. He was in charge of R.E.M.'s visual aspect, often selecting album artwork and directing many of the band's music videos. Outside the music industry, he owns and runs two film production studios, C-00 and Single Cell Pictures. As a member of R.E.M., Stipe was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2007. As a singer-songwriter, Stipe influenced a wide range of artists, including Kurt Cobain of Nirvana and Thom Yorke of Radiohead. Bono of U2 has described his voice as "extraordinary", and Yorke told The Guardian that Stipe is his favorite lyricist, saying "I loved the way he would take an emotion and then take a step back from it and in doing so make it so much more powerful." From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Works

66 films

Beastie Boys Story

20207.5

Antiheroine

2026

Jim & Andy: The Great Beyond

20177.5

Olive, the Other Reindeer

19996.7

12-12-12 | The Concert for Sandy Relief

20126.8

Sesame Street: Singing with the Stars

2012

MTV's 10th Anniversary Special

1991

R.E.M.: This Is Not a Show - Live at the Olympia in Dublin

2009

Slacker Uprising

20075.3

Sesame Street: Elmo's World: The Street We Live On!

20047.6

R.E.M.: Rough Cut

19956.5

Patti Smith: Dream of Life

20086.1

Arena Brains

19875.0

R.E.M. - Monster

20197.0

R.E.M. Live from Austin, TX

20108.0

1 Giant Leap

20025.3

Speed Racer: Welcome to the World of Vic Chesnutt

19948.0

Shadow Play: The Making of Anton Corbijn

20097.0

R.E.M.: MTV Unplugged No. 2.0

2001

R.E.M. Live

20078.0

Color of a Brisk and Leaping Day

19965.6

R.E.M. : Perfect Square

20047.2

The Making of Olive, The Other Reindeer

2000

Tibetan Freedom Concert

1996

R.E.M. - Automatic Unearthed

20178.0

R.E.M.: In View 1988-2003 (The Best of R.E.M.)

20035.0

Anthem

19975.4

R.E.M.: Pop Screen

199010.0

R.E.M. Tourfilm

19908.0

R.E.M.: Live at Shoreline Amphitheatre 1998/10/17

1998

R.E.M. - This Film Is On

19917.0

New Adventures in Hi-Fi Stereophonic on Film

19968.5

R.E.M. by MTV

20146.6

Creem: America's Only Rock 'n' Roll Magazine

20196.7

R.E.M.

20020.5

Hansa Studios: By the Wall 1976-90

20187.6

What Doesn’t Kill Me: The Life and Music of Vic Chesnutt

2016

R.E.M.: MTV Unplugged

19918.5

R.E.M.: Succumbs

19876.0

Athens, GA Inside/Out

19877.8

Louder Than You Think

20236.0

R.E.M.: When the Light is Mine

2006

R.E.M. - Automatic for the People

20178.0

R.E.M.: A Stirling Performance

2000

Mojica In The Snow: Tonight I Incarnate At Sundance!

2001

R.E.M. - Out Of Time

201610.0

R.E.M.: Road Movie

19967.3

Weirdo: The Story of Five Eight

2024

R.E.M.: This Way Up

1999

R.E.M.: Live at Shoreline Amphitheatre 1998/10/18

1998

R.E.M. - Falls to Climb

1999

R.E.M.: Live at the Raleigh Underground

1982

R.E.M.: Parallel

19957.7

R.E.M. at the BBC

20125.0

6 Days

2008

Radiohead: Tibetan Freedom Concert

1998

R.E.M. - Live In Athens (MTV) 2008

20088.0

R.E.M. Live in Stockholm

1998

R.E.M. - Live At The Rock Am Ring

20058.0

Dashboard Confessional: MTV2 Album Covers

2004

Left of Reckoning

1984

R.E.M: Shocking Club, Milan, Italy

1991

R.E.M.

1989

R.E.M.: Live at The Capitol Theater

1985

R.E.M. Unplugged: The Complete 1991 and 2001 Sessions

2014

R.E.M.: New Adventures In Hi-Fi

2026