• Genre: Spoken Word
• Active: '90s
• Instrument: Vocals, Main Performer
• Representative Album: "End of the Century"

Biography

Born in North Carolina in 1945, novelist and spoken-word performer Michael Blake moved to California in the late 1960s, where he first found work as a reporter for the radical Free Press. After spending the 1970s struggling to write while taking day jobs driving a bus and washing dishes, he became a fixture of the Hollywood underground in the 1980s, where he befriended the seminal punk band X. In 1990, he rose to fame on the strength of his Oscar-winning screenplay adaptation of his novel Dances With Wolves, the subject of Kevin Costner's lauded Western drama; disenchanted with the Hollywood lifestyle, he moved to Vail, Arizona in 1992, but returned to L.A. in 1996 to cut his spoken-word debut End of the Century, a collection of rants supported by blues-rock backing from the members of X. That same year, Blake also published Marching to Valhalla : A Novel of Custer's Final Days. A second LP, Un Chien Andalou, followed in 1998. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Music Guide

Performed Songs By:

Tony Gilkyson

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