Biography
Along with his trembling voice, classical guitar, and confessional method of songwriting, Conor Oberst performed an important function in shaping the lighter, intimate side of indie rock and roll during the later ’90s and beyond. His primary task was Bright Eye, an eclectic band of revolving music artists that vacillated between pop, folk, electronica, and country-rock. Although Oberst continued to be at the guts of that music group, he also logged amount of time in a great many other clothes, including Commander Venus, the Magentas, Recreation area Ave., Desaparecidos, and an early on version from the Faint. Finally, he backed like-minded artists with an professional level, co-founding Saddle Creek Information within the ’90s and starting his personal label, Team Like, in 2003. A indigenous of Omaha, Nebraska, Conor Mullen Oberst was created on Feb 15, 1980. He started playing acoustic guitar at age ten, getting lessons from his sibling Matt — a part-time instructor who doubled because the vocalist for Sorry About Dresden — along with the males’ dad. Conor’s second sibling, Justin Oberst, became a member of the effort 3 years later on by funding Conor’s 1st launch. Entitled Drinking water, the recording presented a cameo by fellow Omaha citizen Ted Stevens, who also performed alongside Mike Mogis in Lullaby for the Functioning Course. This early relationship established the stage for Oberst’s collaborative discography; in addition, it allowed Oberst to help expand his a friendly relationship with Mike Mogis, who afterwards play an intrinsic role in Shiny Eye’ achievement. Although still a teenager, Oberst became a member of the rates of Commander Venus and Norman Bailer (who afterwards rechristened themselves the Faint after Oberst’s departure) in 1994. The Faint’s Todd Fink after that joined up with Oberst in 1996 to get a short-lived band called the Magentas. That same season, Oberst extended his réamounté by playing drums for Recreation area Ave., even though group disbanded 2 yrs afterwards. Bandmates Jamie Pressnall and Neely Jenkins continued to create Tilly as well as the Wall structure, with Oberst issuing the group’s albums under his very own Team Appreciate label. Alongside longtime partner Mike Mogis, Oberst experienced an urgent amount of achievement with Shiny Eye. The group released many recordings in the past due ’90s and early 2000s, where period Oberst also established time aside to try out with Desaparecidos. He came back towards the Bright Eye task in 2002, issuing the romantic Lifted or the Tale Is usually in the Ground, Keep Your Hearing to the bottom that summer time and chasing it up with many EPs. It had been 2005’s ambitious double-album launch, however, that founded Oberst like a industrial designer, with both discs (I’m Wide Awake, It’s Morning hours and the electric Ash in an electronic Urn) taking pleasure in high-ranking slots around the Billboard 200. Shiny Eye released another recording, 2007’s Cassadaga, before Oberst decamped to rural Mexico to focus on his 1st solo work in years. Documented inside a makeshift studio room with a ensemble of music artists dubbed the Mystic Valley Music group, the self-titled Conor Oberst found its way to 2008. While on the highway to get that record, the Mystic Valley Music group found time and energy to compose another record, this time around highlighting the group’s collaborative nature. Released in ’09 2009, Outer South highlighted business lead vocals and songwriting efforts from many people, a move that extended the band’s audio without intimidating Oberst’s position as bandleader. 3 years afterwards, a documentary regarding the Mystic Valley Music group called Among My Kind made an appearance on DVD along with a soundtrack assortment of B-sides, outtakes, as well as the tour-only Gentleman’s Pact EP. In past due 2012, Oberst strike the road once more on the tour of THE UNITED STATES and European countries, where he’d play a number of music from his a variety of monikers. Oberst after that worked with maker Jonathan Wilson around the 2014 launch Upside-Down Hill, his 1st recording for Nonesuch Information. The following 12 months, Oberst retreated to his hometown of Omaha, Nebraska. It had been there that he spent the wintertime writing and documenting his seventh recording, Ruminations, which noticed launch in 2016. He quickly adopted up that pared-down documenting with Salutations, which presented full-band versions from the tunes on Ruminations, in 2017.
Quick Facts
Full Name Conor Oberst
Height 1.74 m
Profession Songwriter, Drummer, Singer-songwriter, Multi-instrumentalist
Education Creighton Preparatory School, University of Nebraska–Lincoln
Nationality American
Spouse Corina Figueroa Escamilla
Parents Nancy Oberst, Matthew Ryan Oberst Sr.
Siblings Justin H. Oberst, Mathew Ryan Oberst Jr
Music Groups Bright Eyes, Desaparecidos, Conor Oberst and the Mystic Valley Band, Monsters of Folk, The Faint, Commander Venus, Park Ave.
Music Songs Barbary Coast, A Little Uncanny, Till St. Dymphna Kicks Us Out, Gossamer Thin, Mamah Borthwick, Too Late to Fixate, You Are Your Mother's Child, You All Loved Him Once, Counting Sheep, Tachycardia, Zigzagging Toward the Light, Afterthought, Hundreds of Ways, Empty Hotel by the Sea, Cape Canaveral, Next of Kin, Lenders in the Temple, Time Forgot, Danny Callahan, Night at Lake Unknown, Artifact #1, The Rain Follows the Plow, Napalm, Salutations, Milk Thistle, Governor's Ball, Common Knowledge, Desert Island Questionnaire, Souled Out!!!, Standing on the Outside Looking In, Breezy, Lua
Albums Salutations, Ruminations, Upside Down Mountain, Outer South, Gentleman's Pact, I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning, Digital Ash in a Digital Urn, Vinyl Box Set, Fevers and Mirrors, The Soundtrack to My Movie, Kill the Monster Before It Eats Baby, Water, Conor Oberst, Here's to Special Treatment
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Friend of Jenny Lewis. |
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Former boyfriend of Michelle Williams. |
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American singer-songwriter and musician best known for his work with 'Bright Eyes', and also associated with Desaparecidos, Norman Bailer (The Faint), Commander Venus, Park Ave., Conor Oberst and the Mystic Valley Band, and Monsters of Folk. |
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Parents are Matthew and Nancy Oberst; he also has two older brothers, Matthew Jr. and Justin Oberst. Conor and Justin co-founded the independent record label "Saddle Creek Records" in 1993. |
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Started playing the guitar and writing music at the age of ten and released his first original, independently produced album in 1993 at age 13. |
Soundtrack
Soundtrack
Title | Year | Status | Character |
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Crashing |
2017 |
TV Series writer - 1 episode |
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Gortimer Gibbon's Life on Normal Street |
2015 |
TV Series performer - 1 episode |
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The Whispers |
2015 |
TV Series writer - 1 episode |
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Late Night with Seth Meyers |
2015 |
TV Series writer - 1 episode |
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About Scout |
2015 |
writer: "First Day of My Life" |
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Lillemand |
2015 |
TV Series writer - 1 episode |
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Ihr seid Helden! Hannes Jaenicke trifft Ärzte im Krisengebiet |
2014 |
Documentary writer: "First Day of My Life" |
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Parenthood |
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TV Series performer - 2 episodes, 2010 - 2014 writer - 2 episodes, 2010 - 2014 |
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The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon |
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TV Series performer - 1 episode, 2014 writer - 1 episode, 2014 |
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Alone Together |
2012 |
Short writer: "First Day of My Life" |
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Welt ohne Männer |
2012 |
TV Movie documentary writer: "First Day of My Life" |
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Stuck in Love |
2012 |
performer: "You Are Your Mother's Child" / writer: "You Are Your Mother's Child", "The Calendar Hung Itself" |
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LOL |
2012 |
writer: "First Day of My Life" - uncredited |
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Hawaii Five-0 |
2011 |
TV Series writer - 1 episode |
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Chuck |
2011 |
TV Series writer - 1 episode |
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Gossip Girl |
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TV Series writer - 3 episodes, 2008 - 2011 performer - 1 episode, 2008 |
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Puncture |
2011 |
writer: "Road to Joy" |
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The Tonight Show with Jay Leno |
2011 |
TV Series writer - 1 episode |
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Secret Diary of a Call Girl |
2010 |
TV Series writer - 1 episode |
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Life Unexpected |
2010 |
TV Series writer - 1 episode |
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13 Semester |
2009 |
writer: "First Day Of My Life" |
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Melrose Place |
2009 |
TV Series writer - 1 episode |
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Bones |
2009 |
TV Series writer - 1 episode |
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Leaving Barstow |
2008 |
writer: "Landlocked Blues" |
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The Lucky Ones |
2008 |
performer: "Saulsalito" / writer: "Saulsalito" |
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Cloverfield |
2008 |
writer: "Four Winds" |
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The Last International Playboy |
2008 |
writer: "You will. You? Will. You? Will. You? Will.", "First Day of My Life" |
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Slacker Uprising |
2007 |
Documentary writer: "At The Bottom Of Everything" |
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Knocked Up |
2007 |
writer: "We Are Nowhere and It's Now" |
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Elvis and Anabelle |
2007 |
writer: "First Day of My Life" - uncredited |
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Heroes |
2006 |
TV Series writer - 1 episode |
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The Bubble |
2006 |
writer: "First Day of My Life" |
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Coachella |
2006 |
Video documentary writer: "Lua" |
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Queer as Folk |
2005 |
TV Series writer - 1 episode |
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Imaginary Heroes |
2004 |
arranger: "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas" |
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Producer
Producer
Title | Year | Status | Character |
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The Other Side of Immigration |
2009 |
Documentary executive producer |
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Jenny Lewis: Rise Up with Fists!! |
2006 |
Short executive producer |
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Music Department
Music Department
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The Other Side of Immigration |
2009 |
Documentary musician |
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Thanks
Thanks
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From the Top |
2009 |
Short thanks |
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Self
Self
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The Late Late Show with James Corden |
2017 |
TV Series |
Himself - Musical Guest |
The Life & Songs of Emmylou Harris |
2016 |
TV Movie |
Himself |
Jimmy Kimmel Live! |
2016 |
TV Series |
Himself - Musical Guest |
Late Night with Seth Meyers |
2015 |
TV Series |
Himself - Desaparecidos |
Late Show with David Letterman |
2009-2014 |
TV Series |
Himself - Musical Guest |
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon |
2014 |
TV Series |
Himself - Musical Guest |
Austin City Limits |
2011 |
TV Series documentary |
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The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson |
2008 |
TV Series |
Himself |
Late Night with Conan O'Brien |
2008 |
TV Series |
Himself |
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno |
2008 |
TV Series |
Himself |
Coachella |
2006 |
Video documentary |
Himself - Bright Eyes |
Spend an Evening with Saddle Creek |
2005 |
Video documentary |
Himself |
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