Michael Gira
Michael Gira | |
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Gira performing in Moscow, 2017 | |
| Background information | |
| Birth name | Michael Rolfe Gira |
| Born | February 19, 1954 Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
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| Years active | 1979–present |
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| Member of | Swans |
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Siobhan Duffy
(m. 1999; div. 2011)Jennifer Church
(m. 2014) |
| Website | younggodrecords |
Michael Rolfe Gira (/dʒəˈrɑː/; born February 19, 1954) is an American singer-songwriter, composer, author and artist. Now based in New Mexico, he founded the band Swans, in which he sings and plays guitar, in New York City in the 1980s at the height of the no wave movement. He is also the founder of Young God Records and previously fronted Angels of Light.