비스티 보이즈(Beatie Boys)의 아담 요크(Adam Yauch)가 세상을 떠났습니다.

사진 출처: 공식사이트 (http://www.beastieboys.com)

Adam Yauch | 1964-2012

It is with great sadness that we confirm that musician, rapper, activist and director Adam "MCA" Yauch, founding member of Beastie Boys and also of the Milarepa Foundation that produced the Tibetan Freedom Concert benefits, and film production and distribution company Oscilloscope Laboratories, passed away in his native New York City this morning after a near-three-year battle with cancer. He was 47 years old.

Born in Brooklyn, New York, Yauch taught himself to play bass in high school, forming a band for his 17th birthday party that would later become known the world over as Beastie Boys.

With fellow members Michael "Mike D" Diamond and Adam "Adrock" Horovitz, Beastie Boys would go on to sell over 40 million records, release four #1 albums–including the first hip hop album ever to top the Billboard 200, the band's 1986 debut full length, Licensed To Ill–win three Grammys, and the MTV Video Vanguard Lifetime Achievement award. Last month Beastie Boys were inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, with Diamond and Horovitz reading an acceptance speech on behalf of Yauch, who was unable to attend.

In addition to his hand in creating such historic Beastie Boys albums as Paul's Boutique, Check Your Head, Ill Communication, Hello Nasty and more, Yauch was a founder of the Milarepa Fund, a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting awareness and activism regarding the injustices perpetrated on native Tibetans by Chinese occupational government and military forces. In 1996, Milarepa produced the first Tibetan Freedom Concert in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park, which was attended by 100,000 people, making it the biggest benefit concert on U.S. soil since 1985's Live Aid. The Tibetan Freedom Concert series would continue to stage some of the most significant benefit shows in the world for nearly a decade following in New York City, Washington DC, Tokyo, Sydney, Amsterdam, Taipei and other cities.

In the wake of September 11, 2001, Milarepa organized New Yorkers Against Violence, a benefit headlined by Beastie Boys at New York's Hammerstein Ballroom, with net proceeds disbursed to the New York Women's Foundation Disaster Relief Fund and the New York Association for New Americans (NYANA) September 11th Fund for New Americans–each chosen for their efforts on behalf of 9/11 victims least likely to receive help from other sources.

Under the alias of Nathanial Hörnblowér, Yauch directed iconic Beastie Boys videos including "So Whatcha Want," "Intergalactic," "Body Movin" and "Ch-Check It Out." Under his own name, Yauch directed last year's Fight For Your Right Revisited, an extended video for "Make Some Noise" from Beastie Boys' Hot Sauce Committee Part Two, starring Elijah Wood, Danny McBride and Seth Rogen as the 1986 Beastie Boys, making their way through a half hour of cameo-studded misadventures before squaring off against Jack Black, Will Ferrell and John C. Reilly as Beastie Boys of the future.

Yauch's passion and talent for filmmaking led to his founding of Oscilloscope Laboratories, which in 2008 released his directorial film debut, the basketball documentary Gunnin' For That #1 Spot and has since become a major force in independent video distribution, amassing a catalogue of such acclaimed titles as Kelly Reichardt's Wendy and Lucy, Oren Moverman's The Messenger, Banksy's Exit Through The Gift Shop, Lance Bangs and Spike Jonze's Tell Them Anything You Want: A Portrait Of Maurice Sendak, and many more.

Yauch is survived by his wife Dechen and his daughter Tenzin Losel, as well as his parents Frances and Noel Yauch.

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작년 5월에 [Hot Sauce Committee Part Two] 앨범 리뷰를 썼던 기억이 생생합니다. 제 2011년 베스트 앨범이기도 했죠. 아담은 ’Long Burn the Fire‘라는 곡에서 ’죽음‘이란 단어를 예전보다 더 가깝게 인식하는 것 같았지만, 그게 마지막이 될줄 몰랐습니다. 그는 티벳인들의 독립을 돕는 인권운동가이기도 했습니다. 아담은 1992년 네팔 여행 중 우연히 티벳인들을 만나게 됐고, 자유를 잃은 그들을 보며 굉장한 충격을 받았습니다. 비폭력적인 그들의 투쟁을 돕고 싶었고 1997년 6월, 이틀에 걸쳐 티벳 프리덤 콘서트(Tibetan Freedom Concert)를 개최했습니다. 이 콘서트에는 비스티 보이즈와 유투(U2), 패티 스미스(Patti Smith), 소닉 유스(Sonic Youth), 비요크(Bjork), 라디오헤드(Radiohead), 블러(Blur), 노엘 갤러거(Noel Gallagher), 레이지 어게인스트 더 머신(Rage Against The Machine) 등의 뮤지션들이 참여했습니다.

...티벳인들도 아담의 죽음을 슬퍼하겠군요. 편히 잠들길.

Goodbye, Adam.

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