Since I was seventeen I thought I might be a star. I'd think about all my heroes, Charlie Parker, Jimi Hendrix... I had a romantic feeling of how people had become famous.
— Jean-Michel Basquiat Modern

Neo-expressionist painter

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Interview with Tamra Davis

Date / Period

1986

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Strange & Unusual

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https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0115640/

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