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:

54 tracks
64 stations
20 countries

David Sylvian top songs

1	Red Guitar
2	I Surrender
3	Heartbeat (Tainai Kaiki II) Returning To the Womb
4	Orpheus
5	Before the Bullfight
6	Nostalgia
7	The Boy With the Gun
8	God's Monkey
9	Gone to Earth
10	Silver Moon over Sleeping Steeples
11	Taking the Veil
12	Wave
13	When Poets Dreamed of Angels
14	Answered Prayers
15	The Scent Of Magnolia
16	The Healing Place
17	Maria
18	Pop Song
19	Silver Moon
20	The Devil's Own
21	Mutability (A New Beginning Is In The Offing)
22	When We Return You Won't Recognise Us
23	The Last Days of December
24	Red Guitar
25	Upon This Earth

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.