- Born
- Died
- Birth nameDon Glen Vliet
- Nickname
- Captain Beefheart
- Don Van Vliet was born on January 15, 1941 in Glendale, California, USA. He was a composer and writer, known for The Big Lebowski (1998), A Civil Action (1998) and A Bigger Splash (2015). He was married to Janet Lorelle Jenkins. He died on December 17, 2010 in Trinidad, California, USA.
- SpouseJanet Lorelle Jenkins(January 10, 1970 - December 17, 2010) (his death)
- Surreal lyrics and poetry
- Gravely multi-octave vocal range
- Fedora hat
- Abstract paintings
- Vocalist, lyricist, instrumentalist and band leader of Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band.
- He was offered a scholarship to study sculpture at 13 years old in Europe but his parents forbade him.
- He gave up music in the mid-1980s to become a full-time painter.
- He is survived by his wife, Jan of Trinidad, California.
- His parents moved him to Lancaster, California in the Mojave Desert where he befriended Frank Zappa. He enrolled at Antelope Valley Junior College to study art in 1959 for one semester. He spent the early 1960s in Cucamonga, California in Zappa's studio.
- If you want to be a different fish, jump out of school.
- I don't like getting out when I could be painting. And when I'm painting, I don't want anybody else around.
- We see the moon, don't we? So it's our eye. Animals see us, don't they? So we're their animals.
- We're all colored, or you wouldn't be able to see anyone.
- I don't do music, I do spells.
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