Sufjan Stevens: Perbedaan antara revisi

Stevens lahir di [[Detroit, Michigan]], dan tinggal di sana hingga berusia sembilan tahun, ketika keluarganya pindah ke Alanson, Michigan, di bagian utara Semenanjung Bawah Michigan. Ia dibesarkan oleh ayahnya, Rasjid, dan ibu tirinya, Pat, dan hanya sesekali mengunjungi ibu kandungnya, Carrie, di [[Oregon]] setelah Carrie menikah dengan suami keduanya, Lowell Brams<ref name="Dombal_2015">{{cite web|last=Dombal|first=Ryan|date=February 16, 2015|title=True Myth: A Conversation with Sufjan Stevens|url=http://pitchfork.com/features/interviews/9595-true-myth-a-conversation-with-sufjan-stevens/|website=[[Pitchfork (website)|Pitchfork]]|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150402032450/http://pitchfork.com/features/interviews/9595-true-myth-a-conversation-with-sufjan-stevens/|archive-date=April 2, 2015|access-date=February 23, 2015|url-status=dead}}</ref> (yang kemudian menjadi kepala label rekaman Stevens, yaitu [[Asthmatic Kitty]]).<ref name="Dombal_2015" /> Stevens merupakan seorang keturunan [[Lituania|Lithuania]] dan [[Yunani]].<ref>{{cite news|last=McLean|first=Craig|date=July 28, 2006|title=Liturgical sounds for restaurant place-mats|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/rockandjazzmusic/3654119/Liturgical-sounds-for-restaurant-place-mats.html|work=[[The Daily Telegraph]]|archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220111/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/rockandjazzmusic/3654119/Liturgical-sounds-for-restaurant-place-mats.html|archive-date=January 11, 2022|access-date=May 4, 2018|url-access=subscription|url-status=live}}{{cbignore}}</ref> ''Sufjan'' adalah nama yang berasal dari bahasa Arab atau bahasa Persia.<ref name="Harrington_2005">{{cite news|last=Harrington|first=Richard|date=September 23, 2005|title=Sufjan Stevens's Musical States of Mind|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/22/AR2005092200655.html|newspaper=[[The Washington Post]]|access-date=October 7, 2014}}</ref><ref>"[https://thevogue.com/artists/sufjan-stevens/ Sufjan Stevens]." ''The Vogue''. Forty5 LLC. Retrieved March 2024.</ref> Nama itu diberikan kepada Stevens oleh pendiri [[Subud]], [[Muhammad Subuh Sumohadiwidjojo]] ("Bapak"), sebuah komunitas spiritual antaragama tempat orang tuanya bergabung saat ia lahir.<ref>{{cite web|last=Odland|first=Jeffrey|date=May 12, 2004|title=Junkmedia: An Interview with Sufjan Stevens|url=http://www.junkmedia.org/index.php?i=1031|website=Junk Media|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060813130131/http://www.junkmedia.org/index.php?i=1031|archive-date=August 13, 2006|access-date=August 27, 2006|url-status=dead}}</ref>