Name Warren Ellis | Role Musician | |
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Labels Anchor & HopeBella Union Associated acts Dirty ThreeNick Cave and the Bad SeedsGrinderman Spouse Delphine Ciampi Ellis (m. 1998) Children Roscoe Ellis, Jackson Ellis Similar People Nick Cave, Martyn P Casey, Jim Sclavunos, Blixa Bargeld, Thomas Wydler | ||
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Warren Ellis (born 14 February 1965) is an Australian-French musician and composer. He is a member of several groups: Dirty Three, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds and Grinderman. He has also composed film scores with Nick Cave. Ellis plays violin, piano, bouzouki, guitar, flute, mandolin, tenor guitar, and viola. Ellis has been a member of Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds since 1994.
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- Carly gibson and the eastwood guitars warren ellis tenor
- Life and career
- Solo albums
- Solo film scores
- Film and theatre scores with Nick Cave
- Other collaborations
- Awards
- References
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Life and career
Ellis was born in Ballarat, Victoria, Australia. He has said that he came to music by accident: while playing at the local tip, he found an abandoned piano accordion. He took it to school and his teacher showed him how to play it. He later learned classical violin and flute at school in Ballarat.
After winning a scholarship to a private high school. Ellis went to university in Melbourne, where he studied classical violin. After that he then worked briefly as a schoolteacher in country Victoria. In January 1988 he travelled to Europe, where he busked in Greece, Hungary, Scotland and Ireland. A year later he returned to Australia. Ellis then wrote music for theatre groups and performed at art openings and plays in Melbourne, before he started playing in bands in the early nineties.
In 1995, Ellis was invited to play with Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds on a recording; he remained with the band and continues to play and record with the Bad Seeds, and Grinderman, formed as a spin-off group from the Bad Seeds, who have released two albums.
In 2002, Ellis released a solo album on King Crab records called Three Pieces for Violin. Since 2005 he has played on several Marianne Faithfull albums. Nick Cave and Warren Ellis composed the award-winning score of the film The Proposition, and collaborated again on the scores of The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, The Road and Far from Men.
In 2009, Nick Cave and Warren Ellis released White Lunar – an album that includes other soundtrack scores.
Writing in the Guardian in 2016, Van Badham acknowledged Ellis' influence in the development of Australian music, describing him as a "brilliant multi-instrumentalist as well as musical creator (whose) aesthetic range has furnished the distinctive sound of Australian bands from the Blackeyed Susans to Kim Salmon and the Surrealists."
Ellis has lived in Paris since 1998 with his French wife and their two children.