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Born in Manhattan to actor Anthony Perkins and photographer Berry Berenson, Elvis Perkins descends from a line of artists who led extraordinary lives. Among them was his great-grandmother, Elsa Schiaparelli, the Parisian fashion mogul who revolutionized clothing and jewelry design with surrealist elements, the first use of synthetic fabrics, and the color SHOCKING PINK
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While singer/songwriter Elvis Perkins' folk music has earned comparisons to the likes of Leonard Cohen and Bob Dylan, he is ... known as the son of actor Anthony Perkins and photographer Berry Berenson (who died during 9/11). Raised in Los Angeles and New York, he started playing guitar in high school and took lessons from Prescott Niles of the Knack. While he did play in rock bands and learned classical guitar, his forte became folk. His full-length debut, Ash Wednesday, was available in early 2007 via XL Recordings. He also plays with a band, known as Elvis Perkins in Dearland (bassist Brigham Brough, keyboardist/guitarist Wyndham Boylan-Garnett, and drummer Nicholas Kinsey). Perkins' résumé includes dates with World Party, Cold War Kids, and the Pernice Brothers as well as contributing a song to the soundtrack of Fast Food Nation.
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On Monday, November 13, 2006, Kathleen M. Doyle, Chairman and CEO of Doyle New York, hosted a cocktail reception in honor of actress Marisa Berenson and the UNESCO - Berry Berenson-Perkins Fund. The event, co-hosted with Doyle Director of Couture Clair Watson, took place during the exhibition of Doyle New York’s semiannual auction of Couture, Textiles and Accessories. Despite the wet weather, the event drew over three hundred guests from the worlds of fashion, design, the arts, publishing and philanthropy. Among those in attendance at the reception and exhibition were Marisa and Starlight Berenson, Tory Burch, Mort Zuckerman, Hamish Bowles, Pamela Fiori, Amy Fine Collins, Debbie Bancroft, Jill Spalding, hat designer Kokin and Blu, Milly de Cabrol, Stuart Rekant and Patty Weeks, Stephanie Seymour, Lauren Dupont, Jill Kargman, Carrie Karasyov, Laura Doyle-Hammam, Mario Buatta, Andrea Stark, David Duncan, Roger Prigent, Sandy Schreier, Titi Halle, and Christine Alfsen-Norodom of UNESCO.
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Elvis Perkins was born in Manhattan to actor Anthony Perkins and photographer Berenthia "Berry" Berenson. Raised in Los Angeles, Perkins took up music at an early age and learned the guitar, studying under Prescott Niles, the bassist for the Knack. Perkins began composing music and poetry in high school and derived his abandoned yet hopeful sound after losing both his parents to tragedy, Anthony to AIDs and Berry during the September 11th attacks. His debut album Ash Wednesday reminisces this bittersweet chronicle through his plaintive tenor and sentimental harmonies.
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Berry Berenson, a photographer and actress, was the wife of the late actor, Anthony Perkins, the star of Alfred Hitchcock's "Psycho." Wednesday was the ninth anniversary of his death, at age 60, of complications from AIDS.
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Berenson was 53 years old, and the mother of two sons, Elvis Perkins, a musician living in Los Angeles, and Osgood Perkins, an actor living in New York City. Berenson recently threw a big party at the Wellfleet Cinema for Osgood, who had a role in the movie "Legally Blonde."
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