1. Harold Montgomory Budd was an American music composer and poet.
20 Facts About Harold Budd
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Harold Budd was born in Los Angeles, California, and spent his childhood in Victorville, California on the southwestern edge of the Mojave Desert.
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Harold Budd was only 13 when his father died, and soon his family fell out of their comfortable middle class existence.
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Harold Budd was sent up to the desert to live with friends and relatives as often as possible, but the reality in Los Angeles was growing up in a tough neighborhood, and as the oldest son, being the man of the house.
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Harold Budd attended high school at Los Angeles High School, but did not graduate.
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Harold Budd worked as "everything from cowboy to mailman," including a stint at Douglas Aircraft.
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Unable to continue living in San Francisco, Harold Budd returned to Los Angeles, and enrolled in an architecture course at Los Angeles City College.
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Harold Budd switched to a course in harmony and renaissance counterpoint and his musical talent was spotted by a teacher who encouraged him to compose.
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Harold Budd began to attend performances by artists like Chet Baker and Pharoah Sanders.
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Harold Budd studied music at California State University, Northridge, under Gerald Strang and Aurelio de la Vega.
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Harold Budd graduated from CSUN, and then went on full scholarship to the University of Southern California, under the tutelage of Ingolf Dahl, graduating in 1966.
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Eno contacted Harold Budd and brought him to London to record for his Obscure Records label.
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Harold Budd resigned from the institute in 1976 and began recording his new compositions, produced by Eno.
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Harold Budd developed a style of piano playing he deemed "soft pedal," which can be described as slow and sustained.
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In 2003, Daniel Lanois, a producer for U2 and Bob Dylan, and occasional collaborator with Brian Eno, recorded an impromptu performance of Harold Budd playing the piano in his Los Angeles living room, unaware; it was released in 2005 as the album La Bella Vista.
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Harold Budd had a long-running collaboration with guitarist Robin Guthrie.
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The record was released by 4AD under all the collaborator's names, with Budd being listed first as it was an alphabetical listing.
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Harold Budd composed music for the score of the 2020 miniseries I Know This Much Is True.
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Harold Budd was undergoing therapy at a short-term rehabilitation facility after suffering a stroke on November 11,2020.
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Harold Budd died from complications of the virus at a hospital in Arcadia, on December 8,2020.