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Composer (Music Score), Actor, Featured Music, Songwriter Born: January 8, 1947 in London, England, UK Biography:One of the great chameleons of contemporary pop music, David Bowie has long displayed a gift for remaking his image to suit his creative needs, which, when coupled with an approach that carried far more intellectual and creative weight than that of the average rock star, made him a better candidate than most musicians to become a solid screen actor. While David Bowie never graduated into a full-fledged movie star, over the years he has established himself as a gifted (if idiosyncratic) thespian with a taste for offbeat projects.
David Bowie was born David Robert Jones in the multi-cultural working-class city of Brixton, England on January 8, 1947. Jones developed an interest in creative matters early on, and picked up the saxophone at age 13. At 16, Jones left school and began a career as a commercial artist, while singing and playing sax with rock bands in his spare time. By 1966, Jones had... Full Biography
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