He attended Hampshire College and graduated in 1991 with a major in political philosophy. While in high school he changed his name to "Elliott" and formed his first band, Stranger than Fiction. He graduated in 1987 as a National Merit finalist. At fourteen, Elliott moved to Portland, OR to live with his father, stepmother, and two half-sisters.Įlliott started to write and record songs at home in Portland on a four-track recorder. From the age of five to thirteen, Elliott lived with his mother, stepfather and two half-siblings in Dallas. By the time Elliott was 5, both his father and mother had remarried and his father and stepmother moved to Portland, Oregon.
After discharge, his father moved to Los Angeles to complete a psychiatric residency program at UCLA. Air Force, and sent to the Philippines as a physician. That same year, his father was drafted, assigned to the U.S. When Elliott was one year old his parents divorced, and he moved with his mother to Dallas, Texas. His father Gary Smith was in medical school at the University of Nebraska, and his mother Bunny was an elementary school teacher. Elliott Smith was born Steven Paul Smith in Omaha, Nebraska on August 6, 1969.
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