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Birth Name: Bek David Campbell
Born: July 8, 1970
From: Los Angeles, California, United States
Height: 5' 7" (1.71 m)
Siblings: Has twin brother, actor Giovanni Ribisi
Spouse(s): Marissa Ribisi (actress - m. 2004)
(2 children)
Genre(s): Alternative rock, anti-folk
Instrument(s): Vocals, guitar, keyboards, bass, drums, harmonica, percussion, sitar, banjo, slide guitar, twelve-string guitar, glockenspiel, vocoder, kalimba, melodica, beatboxing
Occupation(s): Singer-songwriter, musician, producer
Active From: 1985-present
Associated Acts: The Flaming Lips, Devendra Banhart, Charlotte Gainsbourg, The White Stripes, Thurston Moore
Awards:
1996
MTV Video Music Award for Best Male Video ("Where It's At")

Rolling Stone and Spin Magizine Artist of the Year
Quotes:
I think my whole generation's mission is to kill the cliche.

Art is the child of Nature; yes, her darling child, in whom we trace the features of the mother's face, her aspect and her attitude.

Had there been no difficulties and no thorns in the way, then man would have been in his primitive state and no progress made in civilization and mental culture.

I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhere.

No one should drive a hard bargain with an artist.

Tonight the city is full of morgues, and all the toilets are overflowing. There's shopping malls coming out of the walls, as we walk out among the manure. That's why I pay no mind.