David Sylvian

United Kingdom
February 23, 1958

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David Sylvian is an English singer-songwriter and musician who came to prominence in the late 1970s as the frontman of the new wave group Japan. After the group disbanded in 1982, Sylvian pursued an esoteric solo career that would draw on varied styles including jazz, art rock, and ambient music. He has collaborated widely with artists such as Ryuichi Sakamoto, Robert Fripp, Holger Czukay, and Fennesz.

For the last 14 days:

46 tracks
44 stations
16 countries

David Sylvian top songs

1	I Surrender
2	Red Guitar
3	Orpheus
4	God's Monkey
5	Heartbeat (Tainai Kaiki II) Returning To the Womb
6	Silver Moon over Sleeping Steeples
7	Nostalgia
8	Manafon
9	Answered Prayers
10	The Healing Place
11	Let the Happiness In
12	When Poets Dreamed of Angels
13	The Boy With the Gun
14	The Devil's Own
15	Silver Moon
16	Taking the Veil
17	Gone to Earth
18	When We Return You Won't Recognise Us
19	River Man
20	Maria
21	Emily Dickinson
22	Wave
23	Random Acts of Senseless Violence
24	Small Metal Gods
25	Anomaly at Taw Head

David Sylvian quotes

The public so often want to freeze the artist in a moment in time when they were at their peak, and they want the artist to revisit it over and over again as if it was something authentic.