Name Murray Lightburn Role Musician | Music group The Dears | |
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Albums No Cities Left, Times Infinity Volume O, Nor the Dahlias: The Dear, Degeneration Street, Gang of Losers Similar People Natalia Yanchak, Patrick Krief, Rob Benvie, Sebastien Grainger, Valerie Jodoin Keaton Profiles | ||
Murray Lightburn - When They See Me (LIVE)
Murray Lightburn is a Canadian musician, best known as the lead vocalist and principal songwriter for The Dears.
Lightburn has been called "the black Morrissey" due to his vocal similarity (and shared penchant for somewhat dark lyrics) to the former The Smiths lead singer. Incidentally, The Dears toured as Morrissey's opening act during Morrissey's solo tour. His voice is also often compared to that of Damon Albarn. Lightburn claims to be "absolutely f*cking bored to death" with these recurrent comparisons.
In 2005, Lightburn married fellow band member, keyboardist/singer Natalia Yanchak. They have a daughter named Neptune Lightburn.
In 2011, within a review of The Dears' 'Degeneration Street', TC of Clash magazine wrote "Lightburn has become a leading contemporary songwriter, fusing together words of anguish, a suitably pained vocal style and a musical backdrop that is always in waiting to take a song to a higher plane[4]."
