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Adam Yauch

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Template:Short description Template:Use mdy dates Template:Infobox musical artist Adam Nathaniel Yauch (Template:IPAc-en Template:Respell; August 5, 1964 – May 4, 2012), also known by the stage name MCA,<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> was an American rapper, bassist, filmmaker and a founding member of the hip hop group Beastie Boys. Besides his musical work, he also directed many of the band's music videos and did much of their promotional photography, often using the pseudonym Nathanial Hörnblowér for such work.

Yauch founded Oscilloscope Laboratories, an independent film production and distribution company based in New York City. As a Buddhist, he was involved in the Tibetan independence movement and organized the Tibetan Freedom Concert.<ref name="Tibet" /> He died in 2012 from parotid cancer,<ref name="Rolling Stone Death">Template:Cite news</ref> after which Beastie Boys disbanded.

Early life and educationEdit

Born in Brooklyn, New York City, Yauch was an only child. His father Noel was an architect,<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> and his mother Frances was a social worker.<ref>Template:Citation</ref><ref name=RollingStone>Template:Cite magazine</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref> Yauch's mother was Jewish and his father Catholic, but he had a non-religious upbringing<ref name=RollingStone/> in Brooklyn Heights, Brooklyn.<ref name="nme.com"/>

Yauch attended Edward R. Murrow High School in Brooklyn's Midwood neighborhood. In high school, he taught himself to play the bass guitar<ref name=time/> and formed Beastie Boys from hardcore punk band Young Aborigines, with John Berry, Kate Schellenbach, and Michael Diamond.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> They played their first show—while still a hardcore punk band in the vein of Reagan Youth—on his 17th birthday. He attended Bard College for two years before dropping out.<ref name=boston/>

Beastie BoysEdit

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Yauch (center) with the Beastie Boys in 2009

Beastie Boys, a hip-hop trio, released their first album Licensed to Ill on Def Jam Records when Yauch was 22. He directed many of Beastie Boys' music videos, often under the pseudonym Nathanial Hörnblowér.<ref name=boston/><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

In 2002, Yauch constructed a recording studio in New York City called Oscilloscope Laboratories. He began an independent film distributing company called Oscilloscope Pictures.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> He directed the 2006 Beastie Boys concert film Awesome; I Fuckin' Shot That!

Beastie Boys had sold 40 million records worldwide by 2010.<ref name=boston>Template:Cite news</ref> In April 2012, the group was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Yauch was inducted in absentia due to his illness.<ref name=time>Template:Cite magazine</ref> His bandmates paid tribute to him; a letter from Yauch was read to the audience.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

In 2011, Yauch received the Charles Flint Kellogg Award in Arts and Letters from Bard College, the college he attended for two years. The award is "given in recognition of a significant contribution to the American artistic or literary heritage".<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Other independent workEdit

He directed the 2008 film Gunnin' For That #1 Spot about eight high school basketball prospects at the Boost Mobile Elite 24 Hoops Classic at Rucker Park in Harlem, New York City.

Yauch produced Build a Nation (2007), the comeback album from hardcore/punk band Bad Brains. When Bad Brains released Into the Future (2012), the band dedicated the album to Yauch, their longtime friend and backer, who had died several months previously.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

In addition, Oscilloscope Laboratories also distributed Kelly Reichardt's Wendy and Lucy (2008), Oren Moverman's The Messenger (2009),<ref name=newsday>Template:Cite news</ref> and Lynne Ramsay's We Need To Talk About Kevin (2011).

Personal life and viewsEdit

Yauch was a practicing Buddhist.<ref>Template:Cite magazine</ref> He became an important voice in the Tibetan independence movement,<ref name="Tibet">Template:Cite news</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> creating the Milarepa Fund, a nonprofit organization devoted to Tibetan independence and organized several benefit concerts to support the cause, including the Tibetan Freedom Concert.<ref name=time/><ref name=newsday/><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

In 1995, while attending a speech by the Dalai Lama at Harvard University, he met his wife, Tibetan American Dechen Wangdu. They married in 1998 and had a daughter the same year.<ref name=time/><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>Tibet Sun: "The union between Adam Yauch and Dechen Wangdu: a look back" from the International Business Times May 5, 2012</ref>

In 1998, during the MTV Video Music Awards, when receiving the Video Vanguard Award, Yauch condemned America's wars in Muslim countries and prejudice against Muslims and Arabs.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Illness, death and legacyEdit

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Yauch in 2007

In July 2009, Yauch was diagnosed with a cancerous parotid gland and lymph node. He underwent surgery and radiation therapy, delaying the release of Hot Sauce Committee Pt. 1 until 2011 (when it was renamed Hot Sauce Committee Part Two) and canceling the trio's planned tour.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:YouTube</ref> He was unable to appear in videos for the album. At the time, Yauch called the cancer "very treatable".<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

On May 4, 2012, Yauch died in Manhattan, New York, at age 47.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref name="Rolling Stone Death"/> In his last will and testament, he left instructions that his music not be used in advertising, though the legal validity of those instructions has been questioned.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

On May 3, 2013, ceremonies were held to rename the Palmetto Playground in Brooklyn Heights Adam Yauch Park.<ref name="nme.com">Template:Cite news</ref>

Yauch is also the subject of a mural dedicated to his memory at the Beastie Boys' former studios in LA.<ref name="Lank 2023">Template:Cite news</ref>

DiscographyEdit

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