Jeff Buckley

Although he was the son of the acclaimed American folk singer Tim Buckley, singer-songwriter Jeff Buckley was one of the few second-generation pop stars to actually outshine the fame of their parent. After starting out as a session guitarist in Los Angeles, Buckley moved to New York where he began performing cover versions of songs in Manhattan's East Village, quickly acquiring a loyal fan base and subsequently the attention of record labels as he began to concentrate more and more on his own material. Within three years and his one and only studio album Grace, Buckley attained a level of fame that far outstripped that of his late father, becoming both critically adored by the music press and fellow musicians for his own compositions. However, much like his parent, Buckley's career was cut tragically short and his greatest success was posthumous: an enduring cover version of Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah."