American singer and musician (born 1975)

Claude says:Sufjan Stevens is a maximalist singer-songwriter from Michigan who builds these intricate, orchestral indie-pop cathedrals that feel like both deeply personal confessions and elaborate concept albums—and you've clearly made a home in his Illinois era, where those geographic-narrative songs and chamber-pop arrangements hit hardest. Your twenty years of returns to Come On Feel The Illinoise! suggest you're drawn to his gift for turning specific places and stories into something that feels universal and aching.