Charlie Rich

His son, Charlie Rich, Jr., is also a noted musician. The score was well received, although the movie was not well received. Charlie Rich died in Hammond, Louisiana in 1995 at the age of 62. Most recently, Sheik wrote the score for the 2004 film A Home at the End of the World, starring Colin Farrell. In the latter part of his life, Rich acquired the nickname "The Silver Fox" in reference to his full head of grey hair. Sheik indicated in interviews that the record was an attempt to create an album of pure pop songs. Other than his music, he is famous for his antics at the 1975 Country Music Association awards ceremony, when he set fire to the envelope that announced John Denver as his successor for CMA Entertainer Of The Year. Escewing the Nick Drake-like sound of Phantom Moon, Daylight featured a lighter, more modern sound with production effects and electronic backgrounds.

Rich was born in Colt, Arkansas to rural cotton farmers. In 2002, Sheik made a brief commercial comeback his album Daylight, including single success on the tracks "On A High" and "Half Life". Charlie Rich (December 14, 1932 - July 25, 1995) was an American country, jazz, and blues musician. The album continued the melancholic tone of Sheik's previous work, and displayed his growing prowess as a composer and arranger. 1974 CMA Entertainer of the Year. The two collaboratively created the album by each drawing inspiration from other's simultaneous work, with Sheik sending Sater music and Sater sending Sheik words. 1973 Grammy Award - Best Country Vocal Performance. Sheik's next record, 2001's Phantom Moon, was a collaboration with poet and writer Steven Sater, who Sheik met through his Soka Gakkai involvement.

1973 CMA Album of the Year, Behind Closed Doors. Some say that Sheik went to greater lengths to reflect his Buddhist faith after reaching certain popular success from his eponymous record. 1973 CMA Male Vocalist of the Year. In fact, some songs are laced with biting anger. Additionally, on some tracks Sheik took a step away from his pop roots to address larger social issues. In his second album, 1998's Humming, Sheik experimented in the studio with meticulous string arrangements while keeping the haunted vocal sound of his first album.

In 2000, Sheik wrote the foreward to The Way of Youth: Buddhist Common Sense for Handling Life's Questions by Soka Gakkai leader Daisaku Ikeda. A lay Buddhist, Sheik's involvement with Soka Gakkai has increased steadily over the years. In 1998, he was nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Male Pop Vocal Performance for "Barely Breathing". Duncan Sheik's eponymous debut album spawned the 1996 hit single "Barely Breathing" in the U.S, which remained on the charts for 55 straight weeks.

Sheik began his professional musical career playing for other acts, including Liz And Liza (with Lisa Loeb), and played on His Boy Elroy's 1993 album. Sheik graduated from Phillips Academy in 1988, after which he studied semiotics at Brown University. There, Sheik's grandmother (a piano graduate of The Juilliard School) taught him to play the piano and encouraged his musical development. Sheik's upbringing was split between his parents' home in South Carolina and that of his grandparents in New Jersey.

Duncan Scott Sheik (born November 18, 1969 in Montclair, New Jersey) is an American singer-songwriter.