1. Elvis Brooke Perkins was born on February 9,1976 and is an American folk-rock musician.
15 Facts About Elvis Perkins
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Elvis Perkins released his debut studio album, Ash Wednesday, in 2007.
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Elvis Perkins subsequently toured in support of the album with his band Elvis Perkins in Dearland, composed of Perkins alongside multi-instrumentalists Brigham Brough, Wyndham Boylan-Garnett and Nick Kinsey.
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The band formed in Providence, Rhode Island around 2004 when Perkins moved to the East Coast upon completing Ash Wednesday, although the members have been friends and collaborators for many years.
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Elvis Perkins was raised in Los Angeles and Manhattan with his older brother, actor and director Oz Perkins.
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Elvis Perkins is a great-grandson of the fashion designer Elsa Schiaparelli, who was a great-niece of Giovanni Schiaparelli, the Italian astronomer who believed he had discovered the supposed canals of Mars, and a nephew of the actress Marisa Berenson, Berry's sister.
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Elvis Perkins's mother was a great-grandniece of art expert Bernard Berenson, whose sister Senda was an athlete and educator and one of the first two women elected to the Basketball Hall of Fame.
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Perkins was named after Elvis Presley, of whom his father was a fan.
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Elvis Perkins attended Brown University, in Providence, Rhode Island, after graduating from high school at the Harvard-Westlake School in 1994.
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Elvis Perkins took to music at an early age, briefly learning the saxophone before picking up the guitar in high school and taking lessons with Prescott Niles, one-time bassist for The Knack.
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Elvis Perkins's band released its debut album, Elvis Perkins in Dearland, on March 10,2009.
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On February 24,2015, Elvis Perkins released his third full-length album, I Aubade, on his newly established label MIR.
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Elvis Perkins toured in support of I Aubade in 2015.
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In recent years, Elvis Perkins has been collaborating with his brother, Osgood, on scores for the latter's films.
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In 2024, Elvis Perkins wrote the score for the horror feature film Longlegs under the pseudonym Zilgi.