Sufjan Stevens

Quick Facts

Full Name	Sufjan Stevens
Occupation	Folk Singer
Date Of Birth	Jul 1, 1975(1975-07-01)
Age	49
Birthplace	Detroit
Country	United States
Birth City	Michigan
Horoscope	Cancer

Sufjan Stevens Biography

Sufjan Stevens is one of the most popular and richest Folk Singer who was born on July 1, 1975 in Detroit, Michigan, United States. Singer/songwriter who is most well-known in the music industry for the Illinois album that also includes the hit song “Chicago.” The album he released in 2003 called Greetings from Michigan and his 2015 album, Carrie & Lowell, also garnered praise from critics.

Music producer and songwriter Songwriter and music producer Tim Walsh engineered two of Stevens’ albums: All Delighted People and The Age of Adz. engineered two of Stevens recordings: All Delighted People and The Age of Adz.

His debut album A Sun Came was released in 1999 on the Asthmatic Kitty label, which he co-founded with his stepfather. He received wide recognition for his 2005 album Illinois, which hit number one on the Billboard Top Heatseekers chart, and for the single “Chicago” from that album. Stevens later contributed to the soundtrack of the coming-of-age romantic drama film Call Me by Your Name (2017). He received an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Song and a Grammy Award nomination for Best Song Written for Visual Media for the soundtrack’s lead single, “Mystery of Love”.

During a 2004 interview with Adrian Pannett for Comes with a Smile magazine, when asked how important faith was to his music, he responded, “I don’t like talking about that stuff in the public forum because, I think, certain themes and convictions are meant for personal conversation.” In a 2006 interview, he said, “It’s not so much that faith influences us as it lives in us. In every circumstance (giving a speech or tying my shoes), I am living and moving and being.”

He was raised living in Detroit in both Petoskey, Michigan, and later moved to New York City. He was the brother of Marzuki Stevens was an accomplished marathon runner.

Sufjan Stevens Net Worth

Sufjan Stevens is one of the richest Folk Singer from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Sufjan Stevens 's net worth $4 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

After graduation from Hope College in Michigan, the musician earned the master of Fine Arts degree from New York City’s The New School. The band released their debut album called A Sun Came in 2000.

The album he released as his fourth, Seven Swans, incorporates themes of theological and spiritual significance.

Sufjan Stevens (/ˈ s uː f j ɑː n / SOOF -yahn; born July 1, 1975) is an American singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist. He has released a total of seven solo studio albums as well as multiple collaborative albums with other artists. Stevens has also received Academy Award and Grammy Award nominations.

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In April 2006, Stevens announced that 21 pieces of music he had culled from the Illinois recording sessions would be incorporated into a new album, called The Avalanche, which was released on July 11, 2006. On September 11, 2006, in Nashville, Tennessee, Stevens debuted a new composition, a ten-minute-plus piece titled “Majesty Snowbird”. On November 21, 2006, a five CD box set Songs for Christmas was released, which contains originals and Christmas standards recorded every year since 2001 (except 2004). Stevens undertook in the project initially as an exercise to make himself ‘appreciate’ Christmas more. The songs were the work of an annual collaboration between Stevens and different collaborators, including minister Vito Aiuto; the songs themselves were distributed to friends and family.

Facts & Trivia

Sufjan Ranked on the list of most popular Folk Singer. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Sufjan Stevens celebrates birthday on July 1 of every year.

Stevens has also worked as an essayist, contributing to Asthmatic Kitty Records’ “Sidebar” feature and Topic Magazine. He wrote the introduction to the 2007 edition of The Best American Nonrequired Reading, a short story about his early childhood education and learning to read titled How I Trumped Rudolf Steiner and Overcame the Tribulations of Illiteracy, One Snickers Bar at a Time. That winter, he hosted an “Xmas Song Exchange Contest” in which winner Alec Duffy won exclusive rights to the original Stevens song “Lonely Man of Winter.” The track could only be heard by attending private listening parties at Duffy’s home in Brooklyn and at places around the world until 2018, when Duffy negotiated with Athsmatic Kitty Records to release the song with all proceeds going towards Duffy’s organization JACK.

What happened to Sufjan Stevens?

Stevens is today sequestered in the mountains upstate from New York , having moved here 18 months ago after 20 years in the city. “I’ve been coming up here to think and work for the last decade,” he says. “Making the permanent move was a total transformation of my life, my mental health and perspective.

Did Sufjan Stevens mom abandon him?

Lowell Brams was married to Sufjan Stevens’ mother, Carrie, for five years in the early 1980s. She dealt with depression, schizophrenia, and alcoholism throughout her life, and initially abandoned Stevens’ family when he was one.

Is Sufjan Stevens Lgbtq?

The answer is, definitely both. Our boy Sufjan has never been expressly open about his sexuality outside of his lyrics (here’s looking at you, “Predatory Wasp of the Palisades”), leading fans to often lovingly speculate whether his songs are gay or about God.

Is Sufjan Stevens his real name?

Sufjan Stevens (/ˈsuːfjɑːn/ SOOF-yahn; born July 1, 1975) is an American singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist.

How do you pronounce the name Sufjan?

Without further adieu, the way to pronounce Sufjan is: SUF-YAN. Or, an easier way to remember that, Soof-Yahn.