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 Nacido el 2 de Marzo de 1942 en Brooklyn ,Nueva York, Cantante y compositor estadounidense. Fundador con John Cale del grupo Velvet Underground en 1965, se inició como solista en 1972 con el disco Lou Reed; ese mismo año grabó Transformer, con su canción más conocida, Walk on the wild side. Su inquieta creatividad se manifiesta en discos como BerlÃn (1973), Rock’n roll animal (1975), Street Hassle (1978), Growing up in public (1980), Blue mask (1982), Legendary hearts (1983) o New sensation (1984). En su producción más reciente destaca Magic and loss (1991). En 1995 volvió a unir a la Velvet Underground para realizar una gira y grabar un nuevo álbum. En 1999 apareció una recopilación de sus grandes éxitos titulada Live, In Concert; Definitive Collection.
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Name at birth: Lewis Allen Reed
Guitarist Lou Reed co-founded and wrote most of the songs for the New York rock group The Velvet Underground (1965-70), the influential band which recorded such cult favorites as “Heroin,”, “Sweet Jane” and “Sister Ray.” The Velvet Underground, at first associated with Andy Warhol and the singer Nico, was never a huge popular success, but it has been credited with influencing a generation of punk and post-punk rockers in the 1970s and ’80s. During the ’70s Reed and David Bowie were among the top acts in “glam rock,” a theatrical style of gender-bending rock and roll. Reed’s solo hits from the ’70s include “Walk On The Wild Side” and “Street Hassle,” as well as re-vamped versions of several of his Velvet Underground songs. By the end of the 1990s, Reed was an elder statesman of rock and roll, a mature songwriter with a reputation for thoughtful urban ballads. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1997.
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