Charles Michael "Chuck" Schuldiner (May 13, 1968, Long Island, New York – December 13, 2001) was an American musician. He is best known for being the founder, singer, rhythm/lead guitar player and main song writer of Death, which he founded in 1983 as Mantas. Much later, in 1998, he founded the band Control Denied. He was also an innovator and pioneer of the death metal genre and was one of the most influential metal guitarists in history. His band Death was one of the first bands to implement jazz structure in death metal.

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Biography

Early life

Chuck Schuldiner was born on May 13, 1968 on Long Island, New York to a Jewish father of Austrian descent and a mother from the American South, a convert to Judaism, both his parents teachers. In 1968, his family moved to Florida. Schuldiner was the youngest of three children. He had an older brother named Frank and an older sister named Bethann.

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