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Mark Lanegan

Possessing one of rock's most menacing, gravelly growls, Mark Lanegan – born November 25, 1964, in Ellensburg, Washington – survived the ragged nihilism of the grunge era to become a well-travelled musical journeyman, collaborating with a diverse range of artists and carving out a solo career dealing in post-punk Americana. A dysfunctional childhood led to drug addiction and jail time in his teenage years, but a love of punk rock prompted him to form Screaming Trees in 1984 and they soon found themselves part of the Seattle scene alongside Nirvana, Pearl Jam and Soundgarden. They...