1. Alexander Blake Schwarzenbach was born on May 21,1967 and is an American musician.
14 Facts About Blake Schwarzenbach
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Blake Schwarzenbach is the singer and guitarist of the San Francisco based band Jawbreaker, and was a member of Jets to Brazil, The Thorns of Life, and forgetters.
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Blake Schwarzenbach spent his early childhood in Berkeley, California, Portland, Oregon, and Boulder, Colorado.
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Blake Schwarzenbach then attended New York University between 1985 and 1991, including a two-quarter stint at UC Santa Cruz in 1985.
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Blake Schwarzenbach received a Bachelor of Arts degree from NYU in English literature and creative writing in 1991.
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Blake Schwarzenbach then formed the indie band Jets to Brazil in 1997 with Jeremy Chatelain of Handsome and Chris Daly of Texas is the Reason.
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In October 2008, Blake Schwarzenbach revealed that he recently started writing music for a then "as-yet-unnamed group" with drummer Aaron Cometbus and bassist Daniel Sea, formerly of the Gr'ups and Cypher in the Snow, but best known for their recurring role on television's The L Word.
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Blake Schwarzenbach is known as "one of the godfathers of emo".
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Blake Schwarzenbach has a devoted following from musicians in the genre, particularly for his songs while playing in Jawbreaker, as shown by the variety of groups who paid tribute to the band on the 2003 Jawbreaker tribute album Bad Scene, Everyone's Fault.
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Blake Schwarzenbach was a character in the online game Emogame 2.
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Blake Schwarzenbach is mentioned in an Eve 6 song, "Friend of Mine"; with the lyric, " remember that Blake said to 'make sure you wake and help save your generation'".
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Blake Schwarzenbach was involved in some efforts of Punk Voter leading up to the 2004 US presidential election.
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Additionally, Blake Schwarzenbach was peripherally involved with the New York University antiwar protests of late 2002-early 2003.
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On March 27,2003, Blake Schwarzenbach gave an antiwar speech, entitled "See How We Are", to a crowd assembled in Washington Square Park following a student walkout.