Adam Yauch
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Adam Nathaniel Yauch (August 5, 1964 – May 4, 2012) was an American rapper, songwriter, and film director. He was best known as a founding member of hip hop trio the Beastie Boys, started in 1979 in New York City. He was frequently known by his stage name, MCA, and sometimes worked under the pseudonym Nathanial Hörnblowér.
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Early life
Yauch was born an only child in Brooklyn, New York, the son of Frances, a social worker, and Noel Yauch, who is a painter and architect.<ref>http://www.oregonlive.com/newsflash/index.ssf/story/adam-yauch-dies-at-47-beastie-boy/bc75e8598d8129c6da6b0dedbd4663cd</ref> His father was Catholic and his mother was Jewish, and he was raised in a non-religious home.<ref>{{
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Yauch attended Edward R. Murrow High School in the Midwood neighborhood of Brooklyn. In high school, he taught himself to play the bass guitar.<ref name=time/> Yauch formed the Beastie Boys with John Berry, Kate Schellenbach, and Michael Diamond.<ref name=usatoday>{{
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Career
When Yauch was 22, the Beastie Boys, now performing as a hip hop trio, released their first album Licensed to Ill on Def Jam Records. Under the pseudonym "Nathanial Hörnblowér", Yauch directed many of the Beastie Boys' music videos.<ref name=boston/><ref>{{
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In 2002, Yauch built a recording studio in New York City called Oscilloscope Laboratories. He began an independent film distributing company called Oscilloscope Pictures.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> Yauch directed the 2006 Beastie Boys concert film, Awesome; I Fuckin' Shot That!, although in the DVD extras for the film, the title character in "A Day in the Life of Nathanial Hörnblowér" is played by David Cross. He also directed the 2008 film Gunnin' For That #1 Spot about eight high school basketball prospects at the Boost Mobile Elite 24 Hoops Classic at Rucker Park in Harlem, New York City. Yauch produced Build a Nation, the comeback album from hardcore/punk band Bad Brains. Oscilloscope Laboratories also distributed Adam Yauch's directorial film debut, basketball documentary Gunnin' For That #1 Spot (2008) as well as Kelly Reichardt's Wendy and Lucy (2008) and Oren Moverman’s The Messenger (2009).<ref name=newsday/>
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In 2011, Yauch received the Charles Flint Kellogg Award in Arts and Letters from Bard College, the college he attended for two years. The award is "given in recognition of a significant contribution to the American artistic or literary heritage."<ref>{{
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Personal life
Yauch was a practicing Buddhist.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> He became an important voice in the Tibetan independence movement. He created the Milarepa Fund, a non-profit organization devoted to Tibetan independence, and organized several benefit concerts to support the cause, including the Tibetan Freedom Concert.<ref name=time/><ref name=newsday/><ref>{{
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He and his wife, Dechen Wangdu, had a daughter, Tenzin Losel, in 1998.<ref name=time/><ref name=hp>Template:Cite news</ref>
Illness and death
In 2009, Yauch was diagnosed and treated for a cancerous parotid gland and a lymph node and underwent surgery and radiation therapy delaying the release of Hot Sauce Committee Part Two and the subsequent tour.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Youtube</ref> He was unable to appear in music videos for the album.<ref name=time/><ref name=newsday>Template:Cite news</ref> Yauch became a vegan under the recommendation of his Tibetan doctors.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> At the time, Yauch described the cancer as "very treatable".<ref>{{
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Yauch died at age 47 on May 4, 2012.<ref name="Rolling Stone Death">Template:Cite news</ref><ref name=pf>{{
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