Australian singer, songwriter, poet, author, screenwriter, and actor, Nick Cave was born on September 22nd, 1957 in Warracknabeal , a country town in the Australian state of Victoria.
He was born to Colin Frank Cave and Dawn Cave. He grew up in rural Victoria, first in Warracknabeal and subsequently Wangaratta.
His mother worked as a librarian at the high school that Cave attended, and his father taught English and math at the nearby technical school.
Early on, Cave’s father introduced him to works of literature such as Lolita and Crime and Punishment. He also helped arrange the first symposium on Australian bushranger and outlaw Ned Kelly, who captivated Cave as a young boy.
Cave joined the Holy Trinity Cathedral choir in Wangaratta when he was nine years old. He was kicked out of Wangaratta High School at the age of 13. After relocating with his family to the Melbourne suburb of Murrumbeena in 1970, he started attending Caulfield Grammar School as a boarder and later as a regular student.
When his father was murdered in a vehicle accident when he was 19 years old, his mother informed him of the news as she was releasing him on bail from the St. Kilda police station where he was being held on a burglary charge.
After completing his secondary education, Cave enrolled at the Caulfield Institute of Technology to study painting in 1976 but left the following year to focus on music. Around the time he graduated from art school, he also started abusing heroin.
At Melbourne’s Festival Hall, Cave went to his very first musical performance. Manfred Mann, Deep Purple, and Free were on the bill.
Nick Cave, who is most known for his baritone voice and for being the lead singer of the rock group Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, is known for his emotionally intense music, which is influenced by a wide range of genres and lyrically obsessed with death, religion, love, and violence.
His combative stage persona, the shock of jet-black hair, and gaunt, malnourished appearance helped Cave gain notoriety. In 1982, shortly after relocating to Berlin, the band disbanded. The following year, Cave started Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, which was later hailed as one of rock’s “most redoubtable, enduring” bands.
While Cave’s obsession with Old Testament ideas of good versus evil culminated in what has been called his signature song, “The Mercy Seat” (1988), and in his debut novel, And the Ass Saw the Angel, much of their early material is set in a mythical American Deep South, drawing on spirituals and Delta blues (1989).
He also made an appearance in the Australian prison movie Ghosts… of the Civil Dead, which he also co-wrote and composed, in 1988. In the 1990s, Cave split his time between England and So Paulo while looking to the New Testament for guidance.
With slower, piano-driven ballads like “Into My Arms” and the Kylie Minogue duet “Where the Wild Roses Grow” (1996), he went on to find widespread success (1997). In the 2000s, Cave began focusing more and more on film. In 2005, he scripted the Australian Western The Proposition and worked frequently with Warren Ellis to create the soundtrack.
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007), The Road (2009), and Lawless are among the movies for which the duo composed the music (2012).
Since 2006, their side project Grinderman has put out two albums of garage rock. He published The Death of Bunny Munro, his second book, in 2009 and appeared in the semi-fictional “day in the life” movie 20,000 Days on Earth (2014).
Nick Cave children: Meet Jethro Cave, Earl Cave, Arthur Cave, Luke Cave
Cave has four children; Luke Cave, Earl Cave, Arthur Cave and Jethro Cave.
How many sons has Nick Cave lost?
Cave lost two of his sons, Jethro Cave and Arthur Cave. Jethro Cave who was born in 1991 in Melbourne, Australia died at the age of 31 years and Cave did not provide the cause of his death. Jethro died on May 9th, 2022 at Coburg Motor In, Coburg North in Australia.
Arthur Cave, one of Cave’s twin sons, died following a fall from a cliff in East Sussex in the summer of 2015, aged just 15. The twin sons, Arthur and Earl were born in 2000 to mother and Cave’s wife Susie Bick.
Cause of the death of Nick Cave’s sons?
Cave did not provide details about the death of his son, Jethro who died in 2022 at the age of 31 years. However, Arthur Cave was said to have fallen off a cliff in East Sussex in the summer of 2015.
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