Michael Stipe
American singer
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| October 2025 | Stipe donated signed handwritten lyrics for the song 'At My Most Beautiful' in an auction benefit for Housing Works. |
| February 2024 | Stipe donated handwritten lyrics for the song 'Nightswimming' to an auction benefitting Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders) for Gaza relief efforts. |
| 2023 | Officiated the wedding of Frances Bean Cobain to Riley Hawk. |
| 2023 | Began recording his first solo album at Electric Lady Studios in New York City. |
| 2023 | Rolling Stone ranked Michael Stipe at number 152 on its list of the 200 Greatest Singers of All Time. |
| October 2023 | Stipe signed an open letter to President Joe Biden urging a ceasefire in Gaza, expressing solidarity with the people of the Gaza Strip during the ongoing war. |
| August 2022 | Michael Stipe contributed his debut solo track 'Future, If Future' to a bioplastic 12″ vinyl record supporting Brian Eno's Earthpercent initiative. |
| 2021 | In a Jacobin interview, Stipe publicly identified as a democratic socialist and disclosed his Democratic Party membership to vote in primaries. |
| 2020 | The song 'No Time For Love Like Now' was finished and released during the COVID-19 pandemic. |
| January 4 2020 | Released solo song 'Drive to the Ocean' on his 60th birthday. |
| 2019 | Released second photography book 'Our Interference Times: A Visual Record' with Douglas Coupland. |
| 2019 | Released solo track 'Your Capricious Soul' and collaborated with Rain Phoenix on 'Time Is the Killer'. |
| 2019 | Stipe collaborated on the single 'No Time For Love Like Now' with Aaron Dessner and Justin Vernon's band Big Red Machine. |
| 2018 | Released a book of photography titled Volume 1, featuring 35 photographs of celebrities. |
| March 2018 | Stipe joined the 'March for Our Lives' rallies advocating for gun control following the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting, and released a teaser of a new song during the event. |
| March 24 2018 | Released solo song 'Future, If Future'. |
| February 16 2018 | Produced and co-wrote the entire Fischerspooner album Sir. |
| June 2017 | Returned to recording as producer and co-writer for Fischerspooner's single 'Have Fun Tonight'. |
| April 10 2014 | Inducted Nirvana into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. |
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