Stephin Merritt (1966 - living) U.S.A. Pop singer, songwriter Rock and pop singer, his mother was a German-Irish member of the 1960s counter-culture, and was an amateur songwriter and guitar player. She brought him up within the doctrine of Tibetan Buddhism. He did not know his father, Scott Fagan, a folk singer. At one time he worked as a copy editor on the US Spin magazine. He formed the group "The Magnetic Fields" in 1989 in Boston, MA. He and The Magnetic Fields drummer and manager Claudia Gonson were both attending Harvard University. The group's base changed to New York when he moved there in 1994. He has been the writer, producer, and since 1991 the singer of all their material. He has also played most of the instruments. He has also been involved in several other projects. In 1994 he formed "The 6ths" and wrote and produced as well as playing much of the music on Wasps' Nest in 1995. In the late 1990s he and other members of The Magnetic Fields and The 6ths worked on albums as the group "The Future Bible Heroes". Stephin Merritt also produced the album New Despair (1997) under the name of the band "Gothic Archies". He has been employed by Time Out magazine in New York as a music critic. He is one of the rare pop artists being happy to be publicly known as gay. Discography With The Magnetic Fields: The Wayward Bus/Distant Plastic Trees (1992) The House of Tommorrow (1993) The Charm Of The Highway Strip (1994) Holiday (1994) Get Lost (1995) 69 Love Songs (1999) With The 6ths: Wasps Nests (1995) With Future Bible Heroes: Lonely Days (1997) Memories Of Love (1997) I'm Lonely (And I Love It) (2000) Eternal Youth (2002) With Gothic Archies: New Despair (1997) Source: The Knitting Circle, UK - http://www.sbu.ac.uk/stafflag/people.html

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