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Don Van Vliet (orn Don Glen Vliet, January 15, 1941) is an American musician and artist best known by the stage name Captain Beefheart. His musical work was conducted with a rotating ensemble of musicians called The Magic Band, which was active between 1965 and 1982, with whom he recorded 12 studio albums. Noted for his powerful, idiosyncratic singing voice with its wide range, Van Vliet also occasionally played the harmonica, saxophone, bass clarinet and keyboards. Van Vliet’s music blended rock, blues and psychedelia with free jazz, avant-garde and contemporary experimental composition. It characteristically features a mix of shifting time signatures and complex rhythms, atonal melodies, jagged, dissonant guitar playing, and surreal, often humorous and poetic lyrics, crafted through his challenging and often dictatorial control over his musicians. —Wikipedia