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Turner Cody (by his real name, Turner Van Pelt Kniffin) (* December 22, 1980 in Boston, Massachusetts) is an American singer-songwriter.

A Boston native, Turner Cody settled in New York in the fall of 1999. Close to the Sidewalk Café community, he met Adam Green and Jeffrey Lewis, perfecting his songwriting at the heart of the "anti-folk" scene. During this period, he published five self-produced albums and appeared on the Antifolk Vol.1 compilation published by Rough Trade. In 2002, he met the Frenchmen of Herman Düne, who came to try their luck in New York. Many European tours followed, two albums and a real artistic collaboration.

In 2008, Turner Cody published the album 'First Light' and the single 'Corner of my room', was selected by Jacques Audiard to appear in the soundtrack of the film 'Un prophète', grand prize of the jury at the Cannes festival and Oscars nominated.

Between 2010 and 2018 he published 6 new studio albums in (digital only) and a compilation in CD format.

In 2017 he met the Belgian songwriter Nicolas Michaux and his band "The Soldiers of Love" with whom he will record the album "Friends in High Places" (2020).

He also published a book of poems entitled "The Return of the High Priestess and other Poems".

Albums

 * Turner Cody (2000)
 * This Springtime And Others (2001)
 * Who Went West (2001)
 * The Cody Choir (2003)
 * Buds Of May (2004)
 * The Great Migration (2005)
 * Quarter Century (2005, 2007)
 * 60 Seasons - A Compilation 2000-2005 (2007)
 * First Light (2008)
 * Gangbusters! (2010)
 * Rules Of The Road (2012)
 * Last Of The Big Time Spenders (2012)
 * Plans & Schemes (2014)
 * Hiding In Plain Sight (2016)
 * The Duke of Decline (2018)
 * The Great Shadow - A Compilation 2007-2017 (2018)
 * Friends in High Places (with The Soldiers of Love) (2020)

Web links

 * turnercody.com