Harry Edward Nilsson III (June 15, 1941 – January 15, 1994), usually credited as Nilsson, was an American singer-songwriter who achieved the peak of his commercial success in the early 1970s. His work is characterized by pioneering overdub experiments, returns to the Great American Songbook, and fusions of Caribbean sounds. A tenor with a three-and-a-half octave range, Nilsson was one of the few major pop-rock recording artists of his era to achieve significant commercial success without ever performing major public concerts or undertaking regular tours. Born and raised in Brooklyn, Nilsson fled to Los Angeles as a teenager, landing a job as a computer programmer at a local bank. It was there that he began taking an interest in musical composition and performing, and was successful in having some of his songs recorded by various popular singers. In 1966, he debuted with Spotlight on Nilsson (1966), which was quickly followed by Pandemonium Shadow Show (1967), the latter of which started an 11-year-spanning string of 13 studio albums released on the RCA Victor label. After a tumultuous period in the 1970s, he remained generally inactive as a musician. In response to the death of John Lennon, Nilsson took a hiatus from the industry to campaign for gun control. For the rest of his life, he recorded only on sporadic occasions. In 1993, he died of a heart attack while recording material for a projected comeback album.The RIAA have certified Nilsson's albums Nilsson Schmilsson (1971) and Son of Schmilsson (1972) as gold records, indicating over 500,000 units sold each. His singles to reach the US top 10 were "Everybody's Talkin'" (1969), "Without You" (1971), and "Coconut" (1972). He also wrote the song "One" (1968), made famous by the rock band Three Dog Night. His honors include Grammy Awards for two of his recordings; Best Contemporary Vocal Performance, Male in 1970 for "Everybody's Talkin'", a prominent song in the 1969 film Midnight Cowboy, and Best Pop Vocal Performance, Male in 1973 for "Without You". In 2015, he was voted No. 62 in Rolling Stone's list of "The 100 Greatest Songwriters of All Time", where he was described as "a pioneer of the Los Angeles studio sound, a crucial bridge between the baroque psychedelic pop of the late Sixties and the more personal singer-songwriter era of the Seventies".

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