Nicholas Edward Cave is an Australian musician, singer-songwriter, author, screenwriter, composer and occasional film actor, best known as the frontman of the rock band Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds. Cave's music is generally characterised by emotional intensity, a wide variety of influences, and lyrical obsessions with death, religion, love and violence.
As frontman of the Boys Next Door (later renamed the Birthday Party), he became a central figure in Melbourne's post-punk scene. After the break-up of the Birthday Party in 1983, Cave formed Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds.
He was inducted into the ARIA Hall of Fame in 2007.
