Profile | プロフィール

Born / 生年月日
January 8, 1947 | Brixton, London, England, UK

Died / 没年月日
January 10, 2016 | New York City, New York, USA (aged 69)

Occupation / 職業
Musician, Singer-Songwriter, Actor, Record Producer, Painter

ミュージシャン、シンガーソングライター、俳優、レコードプロデューサー、画家

Nationality / 国籍
British (イギリス)

Active Years / 活動期間
1962–2016

Net Worth / 推定資産 (at death)
Approximately $230 million

Biography | 経歴

[English] David Bowie was the most formally inventive and culturally transformative major popular music artist of the twentieth century. His genius lay in his revolutionary understanding of the performing persona as a primary artistic instrument, driven by a visual intelligence and a formal courage that allowed him to abandon commercially successful identities to pursue radical reinvention. From the cultural explosion of Ziggy Stardust to the avant-garde formal summit of the Berlin Trilogy (Low, “Heroes”, Lodger), Bowie consistently pushed the boundaries of rock and electronic music. His acting career reached its pinnacle in Nagisa Oshima’s Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence (1983), where his ethereal presence transcended the medium. His final masterpiece, Blackstar (2016), released just before his death, earned five posthumous Grammys and stands as the most formally accomplished artistic farewell in the history of popular music.

[日本語] デヴィッド・ボウイ（1947年—2016年）は、20世紀において最も形式的に独創的であり、文化に変革をもたらした稀有なポピュラー音楽家です。彼の卓越性は、自らの「ペルソナ（演じられた人格）」を主要な芸術手段として扱い、視覚的知性と形式的勇気をもって、絶頂期にあるアイデンティティを捨てては新たな創造を繰り返した点にあります。

社会の規範を揺るがした***『ジギー・スターダスト』の衝撃から、前衛芸術としてのロックを極めた「ベルリン三部作」（『ロウ』『ヒーローズ』『ロジャー』）に至るまで、その歩みは常に革新的でした。映画俳優としても、大島渚監督の『戦場のメリークリスマス』（1983年）で、敵味方を超越する聖なる美しさを体現し、演技の頂点を極めました。死の直前に発表され、死後5つのグラミー賞に輝いた最終作『ブラックスター』***は、自らの死さえも芸術へと昇華させた、ポピュラー音楽史上最も壮絶で形式的に達成された告別式と言えます。

Discography | ディスコグラフィー

Studio Albums — Selected (主要スタジオアルバム)

Filmography | 映画出演作品

Feature Films — Selected (主要映画出演)

Awards & Recognition | 受賞歴

Grammy Awards (グラミー賞)

Winner: 5 (all posthumous, 2017) 🏆

• Best Alternative Music Album – Blackstar (2017) 🏆
• Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical – Blackstar (2017) 🏆
• Best Rock Performance – “Blackstar” (2017) 🏆
• Best Rock Song – “Blackstar” (2017) 🏆
• Best Recording Package – Blackstar (2017) 🏆

Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award (2006) 🏆

Brit Awards (ブリット・アワード)

Winner: Multiple 🏆

• Best British Male Artist – Multiple wins
• Outstanding Contribution to Music (1996) 🏆
• Icon Award (2016, posthumous) 🏆

BAFTA Awards

Nominated:

• Various nominations for television and film work across career

Ivor Novello Awards

Winner: Multiple 🏆

• Multiple Ivor Novello Awards for songwriting achievement across career

Other Honours

• Rock and Roll Hall of Fame — Inducted 1996
• ASCAP Award — Multiple wins for songwriting
• Commander of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres — France, 2002
• Rolling Stone magazine — named among the greatest rock artists of all time; “Heroes” named one of the greatest songs ever recorded
• Blackstar — recognized by virtually every major critical institution as the most formally accomplished final album in the history of popular music
• The sustained critical consensus placing the “Berlin Trilogy” (Low, “Heroes”, Lodger) among the most formally significant sustained creative projects in the history of rock music is the most comprehensive institutional recognition of any sustained creative project by a major popular music artist outside the most formally canonical works of the classical and jazz traditions
• Honored with a permanent tribute in his home borough of Brixton, including a plaque at the site of his birth and a public mural that has become one of the most visited cultural sites in south London

External Links | 外部リンク

• Official Website
• IMDb
• Wikipedia (English)
• Wikipedia (日本語)