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Tony Award and Grammy double winner, Spring Awakening composer, and pop singer Duncan Sheik has died at the age of 56.

Tony Award and Grammy double winner, Spring Awakening composer, and pop singer Duncan Sheik has died at the age of 56.

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September 18th, 2026

Tony Award and Grammy double winner, Spring Awakening composer, and pop singer Duncan Sheik has died at the age of 56.

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Duncan Sheik, the singer-songwriter who was both a Tony and Grammy Award winner and who composed the music for Spring Awakening, has died suddenly at the age of 56.

托尼奖与格莱美奖双料得主、曾为《春之觉醒》谱写乐章的创作歌手邓肯·谢克溘然长逝,享年56岁。

According to information disclosed on his Instagram page, Sheik passed away on Thursday evening.

据其Instagram页面所披露的讯息谢克已于周四晚间辞世

The post read as follows: "The world has lost a singular genius, a voice whose influence resonated profoundly across music and theatre.

帖文中如是写道:“世界痛失一位旷世奇才,一位于音乐与戏剧领域影响深远的发声者

His musical legacy will continue to inspire generations to come."

其音乐遗产将持续启迪后世。”

Before he turned his creative gaze toward Broadway and gave rise to Spring Awakening, Sheik was best known for his enduring radio hit, "Barely Breathing."

在将创作视野转向百老汇并孕育出《春之觉醒》之前,谢克最为人所知的是其经久不衰的电台热播曲目《Barely Breathing》

This iconoclastic musical gave adolescent angst a musical form.

这部离经叛道的剧作将青少年的焦虑予以音乐化的呈现。

In 2007, when the show swept the Tony Award nominations, Sheik admitted candidly: "Apart from our director, all of us were outsiders as far as Broadway was concerned.

2007年当该剧横扫托尼奖提名之际,谢克坦言:“除我们的导演之外我们所有人于百老汇而言皆属局外之列

We intended to shake up the established order just a little.

我们意欲稍稍撼动既有格局

We were simply setting out to create this exceptionally cool piece of theatrical work."

我们不过是着手打造这部极为酷炫的戏剧作品罢了。”

Sheik also wrote musical adaptations of American Psycho and Alice in Wonderland;

谢克亦曾操刀改编自《美国精神病人》《爱丽丝梦游仙境》的音乐剧

"Barely Breathing" spent 55 weeks on the Billboard Hot 100, peaking at No. 16.

《Barely Breathing》公告牌百强单曲榜盘踞55周之久,峰值位列第16

Yet he is perhaps best known for Spring Awakening, which has played more than 860 performances since arriving on Broadway in 2006.

然而最为世人所知的,或许仍是《春之觉醒》——该剧自2006年登陆百老汇以来演出860场

The playwright and actress Aisha Davis wrote: "His tenderness and joy have bestowed upon us such abundant beauty.

剧作家兼演员艾莎·戴维斯写道:“他的深情与欢愉赋予我们如此丰盈的美。

Duncan, thank you for your friendship and your sublime music."

邓肯,感谢你的友谊和崇高的音乐。”

This musical is an adaptation of a 19th-century play by the German dramatist Frank Wedekind, with Sheik composing the music and the playwright Steven Sater writing the lyrics.

这部音乐剧系改编自德国剧作家弗兰克·韦德金德19世纪的戏剧由谢克担纲作曲,剧作家史蒂文·萨特执笔作词

The musical unflinchingly depicts incest, abortion, and suicide.

该剧毫不讳言地刻画了乱伦堕胎与自杀

Part of its purpose is to warn adolescents that only by obtaining accurate information about sex can they avoid tragic mistakes.

其部分旨趣在于警示青少年唯有获取关于性的正确信息方能避免悲剧性错误

In 2015, he candidly told the Los Angeles Times: "I have absolutely no intention of offending those theatrical composers who adhere more strictly to tradition.

2015年,他向《洛杉矶时报》坦言:“我绝无冒犯那些更为恪守传统的戏剧作曲家之意。

I myself also appreciate Stephen Sondheim.

我本人欣赏斯蒂芬·桑德海姆

However, my mission is to ensure that the theater can take account of the music being listened to in other corners of the world."

然而我的使命在于确保戏剧能够观照世界其他角落正在聆听的音乐。”

Sheik and Sater, both devout practicing Buddhists, first crossed paths through the communal chanting of sutras.

谢克萨特二人皆为虔心修行佛教徒诵经而结缘

While collaborating on Sheik's third album, Phantom Moon, Sater happened to mention that he was in the early stages of writing a new work.

携手打造谢克第三张专辑《Phantom Moon》期间,萨特提及自己正着手创作一部新作

Neither of them had ever ventured into the realm of musical theatre before.

此前两人未曾涉足音乐剧创作

In 2006, Sheik candidly remarked: "I once told Steven, 'I would be perfectly happy to throw myself into the creation of this musical, but only on the condition that the music in it be of a kind that my peers and I could readily embrace stylistically, resonate with deeply, and thoroughly enjoy; only then would I be willing to do it.'"

谢克于2006年坦言:“我曾对史蒂文讲,‘我十分乐意投身于这部音乐剧的创作但前提是剧中的音乐必须是我与我的同龄人能够在风格上欣然接纳深切共鸣尽情享受那一类唯有如此我方愿为之。’”

They struck an agreement: to preserve the backdrop of a nineteenth-century German province, yet, as Sartre put it, "the characters abruptly shift into a popular contemporary idiom the moment they sing."

他们缔结了一项协定维系19世纪德国外省之背景然而恰如萨特所言,“角色们在演唱时倏然转入流行当代风格。”

Spring Awakening not only swept the board at the Tony Awards, taking eight prizes including Best Musical, but also went on to win the Grammy Award for Best Musical Theater Album.

《春之觉醒》不仅将包括最佳音乐剧在内的八项托尼奖尽收囊中,更荣膺格莱美最佳音乐剧专辑奖。

In its review, The New York Times wrote: "Sheik's music, its spare instrumentation rendered all the more ethereal, and the gorgeousness achieved by the percussive drive of its seductive refrains, mirror the shadowy atmosphere of longing that pervades the showexcitement laced with dread, joy accompanied by despair."

《纽约时报》在评论中写道:“谢克的音乐简约的配器愈发显得空灵诱人副歌的拍击所触及的华丽映照出弥漫全剧的那种渴望的阴影氛围——兴奋之中夹杂着恐惧欢乐伴随着绝望。”

By virtue of its groundbreaking achievements in both staging and content, the musical has won the fervent admiration of the musical-theatre world, standing shoulder to shoulder with works such as Rent and Hamilton.

该剧其在舞台呈现与内容层面的突破性建树深得音乐剧界青睐,与《吉屋出租》《汉密尔顿》等作品并驾齐驱

In 2015, the production was mounted by Deaf West Theatre and returned to Broadway to widespread acclaim.

2015年该剧由聋西剧院操刀制作广受赞誉地重返百老汇

An Off-Broadway version is scheduled to open this autumn, and its musical Memoires of Amorous Gentlemen, adapted from Moyoco Anno's manga of the same name, is likewise set to premiere around the same time.

一部外百老汇版本定于今年秋季揭幕其音乐剧《Memoires of Amorous Gentlemen》亦拟于同期开幕后者改编自安野梦洋子的同名漫画

The original cast was nothing short of a constellation of luminaries, bringing together a host of profoundly groundbreaking performersJonathan Groff, Lea Michele, Lilli Cooper, Jennifer Damiano, Gideon Glick, John Gallagher Jr., Lauren Pritchard, and Krysta Rodriguezall of whom would subsequently rise to considerable renown across television, film, and the stage.

原版剧组的演员阵容可谓群星璀璨荟萃了众多极具突破性的表演者——乔纳森·格罗夫丽娅·米雪儿莉莉·库珀詹妮弗·达米亚诺吉迪恩·格利克小约翰·加拉赫劳伦·普里查德克里斯塔·罗德里格斯——他们日后皆在电视电影及舞台领域声名鹊起

Groff would later garner a Tony Award for his performance in Merrily We Roll Along, while Michele ascended to superstardom on the strength of Glee.

格罗夫后来凭借《欢乐岁月》荣膺托尼奖米雪儿则因《欢乐合唱团》跻身超级明星之列

Sheik then wove into the Broadway adaptation of Bret Easton Ellis's novel American Psycho the music he had overheard drifting past the velvet ropes of late-1980s Manhattan fashion clubs.

谢克继而将他于20世纪80年代末在曼哈顿时尚俱乐部中耳闻的、越过天鹅绒绳索萦绕而来的音乐,融入百老汇改编的布雷特·伊斯顿·埃利斯小说《美国精神病人》之中。

This novel, published in 1991and subsequently adapted into a 2000 film starring Christian Balechronicles a serial-killer-like New York yuppie named Patrick Bateman, a man in thrall to high-end clothing and grooming products who simultaneously embarks on a killing spree across Manhattan.

这部问世于1991年的小说——嗣后被改编为2000年由克里斯蒂安·贝尔领衔主演的电影——记述了一位名叫帕特里克·贝特曼的连环杀手型纽约雅皮士此人沉溺于高端服饰美容产品与此同时在曼哈顿肆意屠戮

Sheik, who also contributed to the lyrics, recalls that while he was a student at Brown University, he had not yet read even half the book before flinging it across the room.

谢克参与了歌词创作据他回忆当年在布朗大学就读时尚未读及全书之半便将其掷向房间另一端

In order to write his much-acclaimed song "You Are What You Wear," he deliberately reached out to several former girlfriends and posed to them the following question: what kind of attire did you truly fall for in the late '80s?

为创作其脍炙人口的歌曲《You Are What You Wear》他特意联络了数位旧日女友向她们抛出了这样一个问题在80年代末你们真正倾心于怎样的穿着

He then forged the answers he received into this song themed around high fashion: "Chanel, Gaultier, or Giorgio Armani/Moschino, Alaïa, or Norma Kamali/Should I rock/The Betsey Johnson/Or stick with classic/Comme des Garçons?"

继而,他将所得答复熔铸进了这首以高级时尚为主题的歌曲之中:“Chanel, Gaultier, or Giorgio Armani/Moschino, Alaïa, or Norma Kamali/Should I rock/The Betsey Johnson/Or stick with classic/Comme des Garçons?”

The producer Jesse Singer candidly remarked at the time: "Duncan was undoubtedly a genius and an intellectual; he infused the stage with something indispensablesomething at once utterly distinctive and precisely attuned to this era."

制片人杰西·辛格彼时坦言:“邓肯无疑一位天才知识分子,他为舞台注入一种既独树一帜、又恰恰契合于这个时代的不可或缺之物。”

Given that Bateman, as portrayed on stage by Benjamin Walker, fancies himself something of a music critichis musings on Phil Collins and Huey Lewis and the News being, for the most part, witlessly fatuousSheik, too, has ingeniously reworked "In the Air Tonight" and "Hip to Be Square" in his score.

鉴于舞台上由本杰明·沃克所塑造的贝特曼自诩颇具几分音乐评论家的派头——针对菲尔·柯林斯以及休伊·刘易斯与新闻乐队所发的大抵是些愚不可及的沉思——谢克在其配乐中匠心独运地改编了《In the Air Tonight》《Hip to Be Square》

In 2013, Sheik had this to say: "To be able to write a song that functions as a pop song on one level, yet also has to tell a story and draw the audience into a larger narrative arc, is absolutely an art form.

谢克在2013年如是说:“能够写出一首在某一维度上堪称流行歌曲同时又须讲述故事并令观众融入更宏大叙事弧线的歌曲,绝对是一门艺术

When you're writing songs for the theater, it has to serve all these other elements as well.

当你为戏剧谱写歌曲时,它必须兼顾所有其他诸般要素

It has to work in concert with all the other agendas and creative impulses."

它必须与所有其他议程及创作冲动协同运作。”

Directed by Rupert Goold and with a story penned by Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa, the production premiered in London in 2013; by the time it reached Broadway in 2016, however, it met with a resounding failure, closing ignominiously after fewer than 90 performances.

由鲁珀特·古尔德执导罗伯托·阿吉雷-萨卡萨执笔故事该剧于2013年假伦敦首演;及至2016年登陆百老汇却遭遇惨败仅维持了不足90场便草草收场

On the eve of the opening, Sheik candidly admitted, "We were all somewhat apprehensive, fearing that it might strike audiences as excessively violent, or perhaps come across as too misogynistic.

谢克于开幕前夕坦言:“我们都不免有些忧虑担心或许对观众而言过于暴力抑或显得过于厌女

In reality, however, the truth is that this work is in fact a critique of a certain cast of mind.

然而事实上真相在于这部作品实则是对某种思维方式的批判

So ultimately, it is best to give it our all."

因此归根结底最好还是全力以赴。”

Sheik spent his formative years in South Carolina and New Jersey, taking up the guitar in early childhood and acquiring his first synthesizer by the age of twelve.

谢克在南卡罗来纳州与新泽西州度过了他的成长岁月幼年即研习吉他至十二岁时获得了他的第一台合成器

He was profoundly influenced by Talk Talk, David Sylvian, and Nick Drake.

深受Talk Talk大卫·西尔维安尼克·德雷克的熏陶。

His eponymous debut album arrived in 1996, earning a four-star rating from Rolling Stone, which hailed it as "a provocative debuta thing of beauty and a generous spirit."

其首张同名专辑于1996年问世《滚石》杂志为其打出四星评价誉之为一张挑衅性的处女作——美丽而仁慈的精神。”

The album's "Barely Breathing" earned a nomination for Best Pop Vocal Performance in 1998, and its legacy was carried forward through television programs such as Glee and Girls.

出自该专辑的《Barely Breathing》于1998年荣膺最佳流行声乐表演提名,并经由《欢乐合唱团》与《都市女孩》等电视节目得以薪火相传。

The remaining projects encompass "Whisper House"an album that doubles as a musical, in fact a ghost story, staged in 2010 at the Old Globe Theatre in San Diegoas well as "Legerdemain", an album that probes the tension between art and commerce.

其余项目涵盖《Whisper House》——一张专辑兼音乐剧实则为一则鬼故事于2010年在圣地亚哥老环球剧院搬演——以及《Legerdemain》,一张探究艺术与商业之间张力的专辑。

His most recent album is "Claptrap", released in 2022.

其最新专辑2022年的《Claptrap》

Yet for a man who had once been a complete stranger to Broadway, he confided to the Associated Press in 2016 that he harbored a sense of mission.

然而,对于一个曾与百老汇全然素昧平生的人而言,他在2016年向美联社坦言,自己怀有一种使命感。

He said, "I feel this has evolved into something of a mission for meto draw in audiences who would not ordinarily give musical theatre the time of day, and bring them to see a musical work."

他说:“我深感这已然演变为我的一项使命——吸引那些通常与音乐剧无缘的受众,前来观赏一部音乐剧作品。”

He is survived by his parents, his spouse Nora Ariffin, and his daughter Ines.

其遗属涵盖双亲、配偶诺拉·阿里芬及女儿伊内斯。

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