Kevin Patrick Shields (born May 21, 1963) is an American-born, Irish-raised vocalist, guitarist, and producer of London-based, alternative rock band My Bloody Valentine.
After My Bloody Valentine went on hiatus in the early 90s, Shields had gotten work remixing and producing various musical acts. He has also played sporadically with Primal Scream since 1997. In 2003, he contributed music to the motion picture Lost in Translation, and was nominate...
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Kevin Patrick Shields (born May 21, 1963) is an American-born, Irish-raised vocalist, guitarist, and producer of London-based, alternative rock band My Bloody Valentine.
After My Bloody Valentine went on hiatus in the early 90s, Shields had gotten work remixing and producing various musical acts. He has also played sporadically with Primal Scream since 1997. In 2003, he contributed music to the motion picture Lost in Translation, and was nominated a BAFTA for his efforts. More recently, Shields had provided musical accompaniment to Patti Smith's reading of her book The Coral Sea. In 2007, Shields announced that My Bloody Valentine had reunited and were recording new material.
Born in Queens, New York City to a mother who worked as a nurse and a food-industry executive father, Kevin Shields is the oldest of five siblings. Shields' parents immigrated to the U.S. from Ireland in the 1950s. He went to a Catholic school that he has described as "a really horrible school run by psychopathic...
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