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Real Name/Full Name: Adam Nathaniel Yauch
Born On: August 5 1965
Genres: Electronica
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Adam Nathaniel Yauch, (pronounced Yauk), also known as MCA and Nathaniel Hornblower, is a founding member of hip-hop trio the Beastie Boys. Yauch was born August 5, 1964, in Brooklyn, New York.
Yauch went to Bard College before dropping out. Yauch learned to play the bass, and played his first show with the Beastie Boys�then still playing hardcore punk in the vein of Reagan Youth�on his 17th birthday, while still attending Edward R. Murrow High School in the Midwood neighborhood of Brooklyn. By the time Yauch was 22, producer Rick Rubin had taken the Beastie Boys under his wing and they had released their first album on Def Jam Records as a hip hop trio.
While on the hiatus off their groundbreaking album, "Licensed to Ill", Adam Yauch started a New York-based band called Brooklyn. They released an album called "Brooklyn Sessions" around 1987. The EP is so rare that it can only be downloaded on the internet. The EP features the bass line for "Gratitude", a song off of the Beastie Boy's third album, "Check Your Head".
In addition to the Beastie Boys, Yauch is involved in many other activities. Although his family was Jewish, Yauch is also a practicing Buddhist, contributing to his political activism. He is actively involved with the Free Tibet movement, an organisation created to show solidarity with the plight of the Dalai Lama and to put pressure on the People's Republic of China to respect human rights in Tibet. Funds for the cause were also generated from the royalties to Buddhist-inspired Beasties tracks like Bodhisattva Vow. In 1996 Yauch helped organize the first Tibetan Freedom Concert in San Francisco, California. His wife, Dechen Wangdu, is from Tibet. They have one child together.
Under the pseudonym "Nathaniel Hornblower", Yauch has directed many of the Beastie Boys' music videos. Yauch made his televised debut as Hornblower at the 1994 MTV Video Music Awards as he stormed the stage in costume to protest after REM won the award for Best Direction over the Spike Jonze directed Beastie Boys video "Sabotage". He also directed the upcoming Beastie Boys concert film Awesome; I Fuckin' Shot That!. Adam Yauch is also an only child.
In addition to his work with the Beastie Boys, Yauch is also an avid skateboarder.
| Artist | Mca + |
| Artist Type | Musician + |
| Bd | August 5 1965 + |
| Birth Date | 5 August 1965 + |
| Genre | Electronica + |
| Member Of | Beastie Boys + |
| Page Type | Main Info Page + |
| RID | 1,796,426 + |
