David Bowie was a music icon in the eyes of many a true Renaissance man for the ages with a vast  range of talent stretching from being an actor in the role of the Goblin King Jareth in Labyrinth 1986 to being a man who shattered the image of music in the ’70s and reinvented it in his own image with albums like Hunky Dory, Low, The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars and Aladdin Sane. Bowie is a man whose legacy will live on.

“He was like a chameleon. He became the musician he needed to be for the times. He’d change his look, he’d change his music, like his characters were so different,” speech teacher Ricardo Jordan said.

Born Jan 8, 1945 in London, Bowie is known time and time again for his persistence, sheer raw talent and the ability to translate ideas into an expression of himself and the world around him. Many will remember Bowie as more than just a name, but a man with a message to believe in a world of possibilities, to break tradition.

“I think people really look up to David Bowie and see him as their role model in a lot of ways. And I know he’ll always play an important role in the world of music long after we’re gone,” senior Melissa Lazos said.

Bowie’s music was  continuously changing. With a net worth of $230 million Bowie was an innovator of music through the generations and was thought of by some as being way beyond his time.

“He was truly someone that only comes once in a thousand years, there will never be anyone else like him,” senior Gabriel Luna said.