Stephin Merritt
Prolific New York singer/songwriter Stephin Merritt was born in 1966. Raised by his counterculture mother -- he has never met his father -- Merritt spent much of his youth moving from house to house throughout the Northeast. It was during that time that Merritt became enamored with Top 40 pop, specifically ABBA. His interest in music began to take on a physical form at the age of 14 with a cheap ...more




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