Nicholas Edward Cave
Was born to parents Colin and Dawn the 22nd of September 1952. He and his siblings, Tim, Peter and Julie, grew up in Warracknabeal, Australia. He was raised Anglican. He's known to work as a rock musician, songwriter, poet, author, actor and screenwriter.
While attending the Art School
Art department of Caulfield Institute of Technology now Monash University, he met Mick Harvey. The two of them formed the highscool band The Boys Next Door. Nick's first ever released single was These Boots Are Made For Walking
… More (1978), followed by the album Door Door (1978).
The Boys Next Door dissolved in 1983. At this time Nick was living in Los Angeles, working on a film script. His writing turned in to the movie Ghosts ... Of The Civil Dead. After this he started his work with The Bad Seeds along with his highschool mate Mick Harvey. From Her To Eternity (1984) was their first album as Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds.
In 1984 Nick relocated and started to write his first novel, And The Ass Saw The Angel in Berlin. In 1985 he and The Bad Seeds was releasing another album, The First Born Is Dead Nick left Germany just before the fall of the Berlin Wall, this time setteling in São Paulo, Brazil. While living in Brazil he met Viviane Carneiro, with whom he has a son, Luke, born in 1991. NIck also has another son, Jethro, living in Australia.
In 1991 he appeared as an actor in the movie Johnny Suede, alongside with Brad Pitt.
In 1992 they realeased their 7th album, Henry's Dream, followed by a world wide tour. On this tour Live Seeds (1993) was recorded. This is the only official live CD Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds have released.
The Boatman's Call was released in 1997, and is Cave's most intensely personal work to date. After releasing this record, Cave took a break in order to rehabilitate from his heavy heroin and alcohol habits.
Cave wrote the script for the 2005 movie The Proposition. The soundtrack to the movie was recorded by Nick Cave, and released a week before the movie.
He is currently living in London, UK with his wife, Susie Bick, and their twin sons, Arthur and Earl.