Coyote Shivers

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Francis Coyote Shivers

Background information
Born September 24, 1965 (1965-09-24) (age 42)
Origin Flag of Canada Toronto, Canada
Occupation(s) Actor and singer

Francis Coyote Shivers, born September 24, 1965, is a musician and actor. He was born in Toronto, Canada.

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Music and acting

Shivers produced the first single by the band Shadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet. The b-side to that single, "Having an Average Weekend", became the theme to the television show The Kids in the Hall. Shivers went on to produce the band's next two albums.

He also played guitar in the instrumental rock band Sharkskin, which released three EPs and a greatest hits compilation. He then moved to Los Angeles, California with record producer Daniel Lanois, who later would produce the Shivers song "Sugar High" for the Empire Records soundtrack.[1]

Shivers then moved to Amsterdam, where he lived on a boat in the canals until returning to New York City to play guitar for The Conspiracy (a band notable for being the first non-Soviet band signed to the Soviet state-run record label Melodiya, just after the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989).

In New York City, Shivers also began acting, appearing in a bit part in Johnny Mnemonic with Keanu Reeves and co-starring in Empire Records with Renée Zellweger and Liv Tyler. He also made a cameo appearance in Smut and Dirty Love. Shivers continued playing music in New York City, recruiting a back-up band to create and record his first solo album on Mutiny Records, the self-titled Coyote Shivers. He worked with Billy Ficca (Richard Hell, Television) and Jack Pedler on drums.

After a stint as the opening act for KISS on their reunion tour, he began writing songs for a second album, releasing limited edition CD singles and the five-song CD 1/2 A Rock & Roll Record. He then appeared in Down And Out With The Dolls directed by Kurt Voss (also starring Lemmy of Motörhead and Inger Lorre of the Nymphs), and also starred in Girl In 3D directed by Luis Aira.[2] Shivers has also made a string of cameo appearances in films playing "himself" and released the double CD Coyote Shivers Gives It To Ya. Twice.

Personal life

Shivers was married to model and singer Bebe Buell from 1992 to 1997. He began dating actress Pauley Perrette in 1998, and he married Perrette in 2000. Perrette and Shivers separated in 2004 and obtained a divorce in 2006. According to Roger Friedman at Fox News, the divorce, while finalized, has been acrimonious, with allegations of mistreatment of Buell and Perrette by Shivers.[3]

Discography

Albums

  • Gives It To Ya. Twice (2004) Foodchain Records (double CD)
  • 1/2 A Rock & Roll Record (1999) The Orchard (EP)
  • Coyote Shivers (1996) Mutiny Zoo

Soundtrack contributions

  • Girl in 3D, 2004
  • Down and Out with the Dolls, 2001 (theme song "I Wanna Remember Tonight")
  • Time of Your Life, 1999 TV Series (song "Something Happens" in episode "The Time They Threw That Party")
  • Empire Records, 1995 (song "Sugarhigh")

Filmography

  • Girl in 3D, 2004
  • Down and Out with the Dolls, 2001[4]
  • Smut (movie), 1999
  • Empire Records, 1995
  • Johnny Mnemonic, 1995
  • THE BOYS AND GIRLS GUIDE TO GETTING DOWN,2007

References

  1. ^ Lena Lecaro. "It Boy", LA Weekly, May 19, 2000, p. 57. 
  2. ^ Robert Koehler. "Girl in 3D", Variety, June 6, 2005, p. 29. 
  3. ^ Roger Friedman (September 28, 2006). 'NCIS' Actress Pauley Perrette's Endless Nightmare Divorce\. FOX News. Retrieved on 2007-07-31.
  4. ^ Eddie Cockrell. "Down and Out with the Dolls", July 30, 2001, p. 20. 

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