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Gabriel Kahane
12+ albums
Allfolksinger-songwriterEccentricmusical theater
about
Gabriel Kahane (born 1981 in Venice Beach, California) is an American composer and singer-songwriter currently living in New York City. Born at home in 1981 (midwife, Venice Beach), singer, pianist, and composer Kahane was reared in medium-sized cities on both coasts of the continental United States by a psychologist mother (relational) and concert pianist father (unaffiliated). While a convenient and tidy psychological reading might suggest that his hybrid of blistering, chromatic counterpoint and traditional singer-songwriting belies some sort of defiance of the classical environment in which he was raised, Kahane would no doubt argue that such theories are half-baked. “They were listening to Joni Mitchell too!” he retorts. And yet, Kahane’s work defies classification through his sonically challenging, emotionally resonant, yet deeply accessible music. After an uneventful childhood marked by the quotidien, in which Kahane found himself singing in operas in Germany, competing in international chess tournaments, and obsessively compiling baseball statistics, the young man discovered a pair of rickety Martin guitars in the attic of his parents’ Tudor home on Cobbs Hill Drive. Experiments ensued, though they would give way to a fascination with the piano toward the end of Kahane’s high school years. Fast forward to 2008. It’s a historic moment in American politics, with a septuagenarian running against an African-American for the most hallowed office in the United States. I
top songs
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Baedeker
9,1042Little Love
8,9723November
7,8134Slow Down (feat Sufjan Stevens)
7,1725Black Garden (2673 Dundee Pl.)
6,0696Empire Liquor Mart (9127 S. Figueroa St.)
4,9357Ambassador Hotel (3400 Wilshire Blvd)
3,8088Villanelles (feat Chris Thile)
3,7369Union Station (800 N. Alameda St.)
2,59110Veda (1 Pierce Dr.)
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