Born in Los Angeles, CA, Beck Hansen, known professionally as Beck, is a singer, songwriter, record producer, and multi-instrumentalist. He is mostly known for his musical composition, as well as a palette of sonic genres. He rose to fame with his sonically experimental and lo-fi style, and became known for creating musical collages of wide genre styles. Returning to Los Angeles from New York in the early 1990s, he cut his breakthrough single “Loser,” which became a worldwide hit in 1994, and released his first major album, Mellow Gold.