Stevens was born in Detroit, Michigan, and grew up in Petoskey. He attended Hope College on the west coast of Michigan. The name Sufjan is an Arabic/Persian name that predates Islam and most famously belonged to Abu Sufyan, a figure from early Islamic history. It has been mentioned in th...
album recalls his intimate singer-songwriter days. but it also draws on his entire catalog, his dazzling musicality, and his lifelong inquiries about love and devotion. save save once when sufjan stevens was in college, he brought an injured crow to the biology lab to help save its life. ...
Sufjan Stevens, has put out Christmas EPs each year for his closest group of friends, and then they eventually make their way out to the public via now two EP box
it can always take us back to that beautiful and lovely summer. But today's protagonist is not the movie, but the singer who sang the theme song - Sufjan Stevens. Sufjan Stevens is known as "The gifted folk poet of the early 21st century...
In October 2023, Stevens released his tenth solo studio project,Javelin, which pairs musical sweep with emotional breadth in a way only Stevens can, weaving an entire lifetime of feeling into 42-minutes.
Sufjan Stevens has always written personally, weaving his life story into larger narratives, but here his autobiography is front and center.Carrie & Lowellis a return to the stripped-back folk ofSeven Swans, but with a decade's worth of refinement and exploration packed into it.Sufjan Stevens总...
stevens has always written personally, weaving his life story into larger narratives, but here his autobiography, front and center, is itself the grand history. the songs explore childhood, family, grief, depression, loneliness, faith, and rebirth in direct and unflinching language that matches ...
Stevens’ musicianship paired arresting folk melodies with sweeping instrumental movements, and while his synthesis of spirituality and the miraculous mundanity of life could often be joyful, he also made room for songs about death, despair and absurdity. By the timeIllinoisbecame Stevens’ most ...
Fans of Sufjan Stevens and the film "Call Me by Your Name," rejoice! The three songs Stevens contributed to the critically acclaimed film — including the Academy Award-nominated “Mystery of Love†— will be releas
In the five years betweenSufjan Stevens’ heart-wrenching masterpieceCarrie & Lowelland now, we haven’t heard a lot from him. Sure, he’s kept busy – releasing a lengthy collaborative album about the solar system, writing a few original songs for the filmCall Me By Your Name, and recen...