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:

52 tracks
58 stations
19 countries

David Sylvian top songs

1	Red Guitar
2	I Surrender
3	Heartbeat (Tainai Kaiki II) Returning To the Womb
4	Silver Moon over Sleeping Steeples
5	Maria
6	Nostalgia
7	Red Guitar
8	Orpheus
9	The Boy With the Gun
10	The Devil's Own
11	Answered Prayers
12	Darkest Dreaming
13	Anomaly at Taw Head (A Haunting)
14	Brilliant Trees
15	Random Acts of Senseless Violence
16	Bamboo Houses
17	The Ink In the Well
18	The Healing Place
19	When Poets Dreamed of Angels
20	God's Monkey
21	The Scent of Magnolia
22	Bamboo Music (7'' Mix)
23	Taking the Veil
24	Gone to Earth
25	Wave

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.