Still not yet quite 40 years old, Conor Oberst holds the distinction of being the most famous musical son of Nebraska. He's got there through sheer effort, commitment, and refusing to take no for an answer. Oberst is another performer who started young and put the hours in. By the time he was thirteen, he'd self-recorded and produced an album of original music, which he was hawking around record labels on a cassette tape.
Oberst never seems to settle on one project for long. He either gets bored easily, or he always wants to have multiple routes open for him to create music. He's listed as a founding member of no less than eight bands, although he'll probably never eclipse the success of his most famous project, Bright Eyes. You probably know him best for the song 'If Winter Ends.'