finetune artist: Duncan Sheik

b. 18 November 1969, Montclair, New Jersey, USA. Sheik grew up in South Carolina and New Jersey, learning to play the piano and guitar. He played with Lisa Loeb while studying at Brown University, and later appeared with His Boy Elroy on a 1993 album for Epic Records. Sheik recorded his debut Atlantic Records album in 1996 - a suite of songs that was dominated by the recent ending of a personal relationship. The first single to be lifted from the self-titled album, the huge radio hit "Barely Breathing", was typical of its contents, eschewing any distinctive pop content in its determinedly downbeat observations. Despite the absence of any quantifiable mass appeal, the debut album quickly gained a foothold in the Billboard Top 100, buoyed by the inclusion of Sheik's song, "In The Absence Of Sun", on the soundtrack to The Saint.

Listen to Duncan Sheik at Finetune.

(2007) Greatest Hits - Brighter: A Duncan Sheik Collection
(2007) Humming
(2007) Duncan Sheik
(2007) Daylight
(2006) Brighter/Later: A Duncan Sheik Anthology
(2006) Spring Awakening
(2005) Phantom Moon
(2005) Rhino Hi-Five: Duncan Sheik
(2002) Daylight
(2001) Phantom Moon
(1998) Humming
(1996) Duncan Sheik

Barely Breathing
She Runs Away
Barely Breathing (2006 Remastered LP Version)
Wishful Thinking
Reasons for Living