Tucker Zimmermanwho published his collaborative album with Big Thief In 2024, he died along with his wife Marie-Claire Lambert in a fire.
Tucker Zimmermanthe eclectic American singer-songwriter who built a cult following in Europe in the 1960s, died on January 17 in his house Belgium. 4AD, the label that published their collaborative album “Dance of Love” (24) next to Big Thiefconfirmed the news in a press release. Zimmerman and his wife, Marie-Claire Lambertdied asphyxiated in a house fire. He was eighty-four years old and she was seventy-seven.
Born in San Francisco as Bryan Tucker Zimmermanthe musician studied violin from the age of four and grew up fascinated by jazz and rhythm and blues. Zimmerman He dedicated himself to mastering formal music theory and composition while working part-time as a firefighter. He approached the folk in 1965when he received a Fulbright scholarship to study composition with Goffredo Petrassi in Rome. In Italy, Zimmerman He toured folk clubs performing his own songs while trying to make his way in Europe.
There he met Marie-Clairewho was then working at the Belgian embassy in 1967. During those years, he wrote more than 300 songs. Some of them formed their debut album, “Ten Songs by Tucker Zimmerman”recorded in 1968. He and Marie-Claire were expelled to Belgium in 1970. There they discovered that a single that he and Tony Visconti they had recorded, “The Red Wind/Moon Dog”had become a hit on pirate radio. The first official concert of Zimmerman in Brussels It gathered 600 attendees and appeared on the front page of a local newspaper. Throughout his life he published 11 more albums.
