Grant-Lee Phillips is an American singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. He led the group Grant Lee Buffalo in the 1990s before launching a solo career.
He is also known for his recurring role as the town troubadour in the television series Gilmore Girls.
real name: Bryan G. Phillips
labels: Rounder Records
genres: alternative rock
plays: guitar, voice
member of: Grant Lee Buffalo
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Born in Stockton, California, Phillips began playing the guitar in his early teens. At age 19, he moved to Los Angeles where he worked tarring roofs to fund evening classes at UCLA and forming bands. He eventually dropped out of college to pursue music, and linked up with an old friend from Stockton, Jeffrey Clark. He lived on campus at CalArts with future wife Denise Siegel, whom he met at a party. Phillips informally took art classes, went to public lectures and film screenings, and immersed himself in the school's World Music program until 1990.
Phillips launched his solo career in 2000. signed to the Boston-based indie label Rounder Records and launched a solo career, issuing Ladies' Love Oracle online in 2000. The recording was later more widely released. His first full-length album, Mobilize, was released in 2001. Being praised as much for its gentleness as Buffalo were for their rock, it featured Phillips on many instruments.
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