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Scott Walker Noel Scott Engel January 9 1943 - March 22 2019 Was An American-Born Singer-Songwriter Composer And Record Producer. He Is Noted For His Distinctive Baritone Voice And For The Unorthodox Career Path Which Took Him From 1960s Pop Icon To 21st Century Avant-Garde Musician. Originally Coming To Fame In The Mid-1960s Singing Orchestral Pop Ballads As The Frontman Of The Walker Brothers Walker Went On To A Solo Career Balancing A Light Entertainment/MOR Ballad Approach With Increasing Artistic Innovations In Arrangement And Writing. Despite A Series Of Acclaimed Albums A Disastrous Drop In Sales Forced Him Back Into Straight Middle Of The Road Recordings With Little Of His Own Artistic Input. This In Turn Eventually Led To A Walker Brothers Reunion In The Mid-1970s Although The Latter Eventually Moved By Mutual Consent Into More Avant-Garde Areas . From The Mid-1980s Walker Revived His Solo Career While Drastically Reinventing His Artistic And Compositional Methods Via A Series Of Acclaimed And Vividly Avant-Garde Albums. These Combined His Iconic Voice With An Unsettling Avant-Garde Approach Which Owed More To Modernist And Post-Modernist Classical Composition Than To His Pop Singer Past. This Change In Approach Has Been Compared To "Andy Williams Reinventing Himself As Stockhausen". Walker Has Been A Continuing Influence On Other Artists In Particular The Last Shadow Puppets Marc Almond Goldfrapp Douglas Pearce Of The Band Death In June Billy MacKenzie Of The Associates David Sylvian Julian Cope Antony Hegarty Thom Yorke Steven Wilson David Bowie Leonard Cohen Trey Spruance Perry Blake Radiohead Noah Lennox Mikael Åkerfeldt And The Divine Comedy/Neil Hannon. Walker Continued To Release Solo Material Until His Death And Was Signed To 4AD Records. As A Record Producer Or Guest Performer He Worked With A Number Of Artists Including Pulp Ute Lemper Bat For Lashes And Sunn O . read less