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Who is Lou Reed wife Laurie Anderson?

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Lewis Allan Reed was an American musician, songwriter, and poet. He was the guitarist, singer, and principal songwriter for the rock band The Velvet Underground and had a solo career that spanned five decades.
Lou Reed was born on March 2, 1942, in New York, New York, United States. Reed had suffered from hepatitis and diabetes for several years. He was treated with interferon but developed liver cancer. In May 2013, he underwent a liver transplant at the Cleveland Clinic. On October 27, 2013, he died from liver disease at his home in East Hampton, New York, at the age of 71. He was cremated and the ashes were given to his family.

 

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Who is Lou Reed wife Laurie Anderson?

Lou Reed had been married three times already before his death in 2013. He first married Bettye Kronstad, who he married and divorced within a year.

The second was Sylvia Morales, who he was married to from 1980 to 1990, and his last wife was Laurie Anderson, whom he married in 2008 and was with till his death in 2013.

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Laurel Philips Anderson was born June 5, 1947, she is known as Laurie Anderson and she is an American avant-garde artist, composer, musician, and film director whose work spans performance art, pop music, and multimedia projects.

She initially trained in violin and sculpting, and had pursued a variety of performance art projects in New York during the 1970s, focusing particularly on language, technology, and visual imagery.

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Anderson was the romantic partner of fellow musician Lou Reed for 21 years. They were married in 2008 and remained together for the following five years until his death of liver cancer.

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