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Jeffrey Scott Buckley (raised as Scott Moorhead; November 17, 1966 – May 29, 1997) was an American singer-songwriter. After a decade as a session guitarist in Los Angeles, Buckley amassed a following in the early 1990s performing at venues in East Village, Manhattan such as Sin-é. He signed with Columbia, recruited a band, and released his only studio album, Grace, in 1994.

Buckley toured extensively to promote Grace, including concerts in the U.S., Europe, Japan, and Australia. In 1996, he worked on his second album, My Sweetheart the Drunk, in New York City with the producer Tom Verlaine. In 1997, he resumed work after moving to Memphis, Tennessee, recording four-track demos and playing weekly solo shows in Memphis. On May 29, while awaiting the arrival of his band from New York, Buckley drowned while swimming in the Wolf River, a tributary of the Mississippi. Posthumous releases include a collection of four-track demos and studio recordings for My Sweetheart the Drunk, and reissues of Grace and the Live at Sin-é EP.

After Buckley's death, his critical standing grew, and he has been cited as an influence by singers such as Thom Yorke of Radiohead and Matt Bellamy of Muse. Rolling Stone included Grace in three of its lists of the 500 greatest albums, named Buckley's version of "Hallelujah" one of the 500 greatest songs, and included Grace in its list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time. In 2014, Buckley's version of the Leonard Cohen song "Hallelujah" was inducted into the American Library of Congress' National Recording Registry. In 2008, Buckley’s cover of Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah" became his first number one on Billboard's Hot Digital Songs and reached number two in the UK singles chart.