He was by this time making music in a band called Ima Robot and learning some important lessons about the music industry. Isolated from k parental influence, his heroin addiction would begin in earnest. A love of hip-hop from the age of seven and a penchant for drugs as he hit his teens would lead to a breakdown in Alex's relationship with his father. When Carl's own son, Michael, was about 13, the family moved to the United States.Ī few years later, such knowledge would begin to take its toll. The boy became an actor, then a theatre director, before sealing his place in opera history by artistically directing the inaugural Glyndebourne festival. The affair was illicit, and the child, Carl, was handed over for adoption to a family called Ebert. In 1887, a child was born in Germany to a Polish count and an Irish-American singer who had met in Monte Carlo. But manicured nails and lawns were not the way of the world in the Eberts' home. It was an affluent suburb, part of the San Fernando Valley that would give rise to the stereotype of the Valley Girl. Alexander Ebert – who performs under the name Edward Sharpe and whose friends call him Alex – was growing up in the Sherman Oaks district of Los Angeles. There are times in every man's life appropriate to the contemplation of death and Beethoven, but five years old is probably not one of them.
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