Australian singer, songwriter, author, screenwriter, composer and occasional actor. Known for his baritone voice and for fronting the rock band Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Cave’s music is generally characterised by emotional intensity, a wide variety of influences and lyrical obsessions with death, religion, love and violence.
Cave maintains The Red Hand Files, a newsletter he uses to respond to questions from fans. His work is the subject of academic study, and his songs have been covered by a wide range of artists, including Johnny Cash (“The Mercy Seat”), Metallica (“Loverman”) and Snoop Dogg (“Red Right Hand”). He was inducted into the ARIA Hall of Fame in 2007, and named an Officer of the Order of Australia in 2017.
Cave’s first wife, Brazilian journalist Viviane Carneiro, gave birth to their son Luke in 1991. Nick and Viviane were married for six years and divorced in 1996. Cave’s second son, Jethro, was also born in 1991 and grew up with his mother, Beau Lazenby, in Melbourne, Australia. Cave and Jethro did not meet one another until Jethro was about seven or eight. Cave married British model Susie Bick in 1999. Their twin sons, Arthur and Earl, were born in London in 2000 and raised in Brighton.
His son Arthur, 15, fell from a cliff at Ovingdean, near Brighton, and died from his injuries on 14 July 2015. In 2022, seven years after the death of Arthur, Cave’s son Jethro Lazenby died on 9 May 2022, aged 31, following a long history of mental illness.
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