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American musician (1976–2003) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Jeremy Michael Ward (May 5, 1976 – May 25, 2003) was an American musician, best known as the sound technician and vocal operator for The Mars Volta and De Facto.
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Birth name | Jeremy Michael Ward |
Born | Fort Worth, Texas, U.S. | May 5, 1976
Died | May 25, 2003 27) Los Angeles, California, U.S. | (aged
Genres | Experimental music, dub, noise, reggae, salsa, ambient |
Occupation(s) | Sound technician, vocal operator, musician |
Instrument(s) | Guitar, vocals, effects |
Years active | 1994–2003 |
Jeremy Ward was born in Fort Worth, Texas and later moved to El Paso.[1] He was a cousin of Jim Ward and was loosely associated with Jim's band At the Drive-In since its formation in 1994.[2] After that band split for the first time in 2001, members Cedric Bixler-Zavala and Omar Rodríguez-López invited Ward to contribute vocals and electronic effects to their interim project De Facto, and then their more permanent band The Mars Volta.[3] He contributed to that group's debut album De-Loused in the Comatorium,[4] and his experimental sound manipulations have been cited as integral to that album's sound.[3]
Less than a month before the album was released, Ward was found dead of an apparent heroin overdose on May 25, 2003.[3] Bixler-Zavala and Rodríguez-López have stated that Ward's death inspired them to kick their own addictions.[5] Ward had also worked as a repo man, and an anonymous diary that he had found while repossessing a car became the basis for the lyrics in the next Mars Volta album, Frances the Mute.[6] Some of Ward's experimental recordings were used posthumously on later albums by The Mars Volta and Omar Rodríguez-López, and Lopez created the full-length album Omar Rodriguez Lopez & Jeremy Michael Ward from such compositions in 2008.[7]
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