Jeffrey Scott Buckley nació el 17 de noviembre de 1966 en Anaheim, California. Hijo del famoso cantautor Tim Buckley y Mary Guibert, creció rodeado de una rica influencia musical. A pesar de la separación de sus padres, Buckley recibió una educación musical diversa desde temprana edad. Su madre, una pianista y chelista, le presentó una variedad de géneros y estilos, algo que luego se reflejaría en su propia música.
Jeff Buckley no tuvo una relación cercana con su padre, quien falleció cuando Jeff tenía solo 8 años. Sin embargo, este legado ausente y la música que Tim dejó atrás sirvieron como una influencia significativa en la vida de Jeff. A temprana edad, descubrió su talento para la guitarra, un instrumento que se convertiría en una extensión de su voz y de su alma musical.
Jeff comenzó su carrera a principios de los años 90 en la escena musical del Lower East Side de Nueva York, participando en pequeños clubes y cafés. Fue en esos ambientes íntimos donde forjó su identidad y comenzó a atraer la atención de la crítica y el público. En particular, sus presentaciones en el Sin-é, un pequeño café irlandés, le proporcionaron una plataforma para mostrar su impresionante rango vocal y su habilidad para interpretar tanto composiciones propias como versiones de clásicos.
En 1993, Buckley lanzó su primer EP, Live at Sin-é, el cual capturó plenamente su esencia en vivo. La colección ofreció
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This is, uh
Based on some music that I heard in a dream
That I saw in a dream
Called, it's going to be called "you and I", ouch!
'Cause it's what the people in the dream were saying
You and I, you and I, you and I
All for you
It's like that, I heard the people singing that in a dream
Yeah, and it was a dream where I was in an auditorium at a college
And everybody was congregated and singing the same words
And there was this, y'know a bunch of
This band on stage and they were like, y'know, sorta spacey Deadhead band
With teen- y'know, like, guys in their twenties, like a bunch of grunge guys but
Kinda playing this, this, other thing, not like what I'm playing here on guitar
And the people kept on beating out, uh
Rhythms on drumsticks
This really great rhythm, it was in like, 7 4, this really cool space jam
And what it was, it was a song
I dreamed that this song was about, uh, about this guy, uh
Or, y'know, the person in the song is singing to his lover
Supposedly
That uh, y'know, he's completely theirs
The lover has forbidden anybody to have contact with him
The lover has taken away his freedom, taken away his days and nights
Taken away his, y'know, his dreams
Uh, sent away his friends
Forbidden him to, y'know, get close to his parents, all that stuff
And what it was, it was an Aids rally
And that song was about Aids
Or about something like that
So every time the refrain came around
The people would say "you and I, you and I, you and I"
And they point to the sign that said, y'know, like, it said Aids with a circle with a slash through it
And they go "all for you"
They go like, point to the sign, so that was the dream
I woke up with it
'Kay?
Anyway, as long as you got that on tape, I'll remember that