Adam Fredric Duritz (born August 1, 1964) is an American musician and record producer. He is the lead singer and founding member of the rock band Counting Crows. His lyrics have been described as "morose" and "tortured" and as "wordy introspection" and his vocals "expressive." He has also suffered from depression and "a dissociative disorder, which makes the world seem like it's not real," which contribute to the duration between albums and the i...
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Adam Fredric Duritz (born August 1, 1964) is an American musician and record producer. He is the lead singer and founding member of the rock band Counting Crows. His lyrics have been described as "morose" and "tortured" and as "wordy introspection" and his vocals "expressive." He has also suffered from depression and "a dissociative disorder, which makes the world seem like it's not real," which contribute to the duration between albums and the inspiration of many of his song lyrics.
Duritz was born in Baltimore, Maryland, the son of two doctors, and is of Russian Jewish descent - but is now "impersonating African Jamaican", he says. Early on he moved to Boston, then El Paso, Texas, and finally to Berkeley, California. Duritz has lived in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Houston, Amsterdam and, most recently, New York City. As a student, he attended Head-Royce School, the Taft School, the University of California, Davis and the University of California, Berkeley , but dropped out before...
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