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I heard there was a secret chord that David played and it pleased the Lord but you don't

really care for music do you? You've heard that song, Hallelujah, surely you have. Well, hold that thought.

This week's great life lived a rich and talented life, stuffed with many of the predictable elements in a musician's world,

booze, sex, touring, arguments, insecurity and frustration.

Not untypically, too.

He died young. He was just 30 when he drowned in the Wolf River in Memphis,

but he's left behind a legacy and his stellar album, Grace, for which he's best known. class to fly me away.

Jeff Buckley is this week's great life.

And nominating him is musician and composer Nittin Sawney, one of the most prolific and best-known British Indian musicians,

a multi-instrumentalist genre-spanning musician,

composer and DJ whose breadth of work defies pigeonholing.

His output ranges from jingles to scores

to his latest album, Distopian Dream.

Quite a leap from Warner Brothers new Jungle Book origins film for which

Nittin scoring the music. Why Jeff Buckley? Oh Jeff Buckley was someone who I

really admired on so many levels.

I mean, I admired his values the way,

I mean, had the most beautiful voice

and had such eclectic taste.

I mean, this was a man who referred to Ustad Nasrathati Ali Khan as his Elvis.

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