Kevin Patrick Shields (born Queens, New York City, U.S. on May 21, 1963) is a singer, guitarist, and producer who fronted the London-based, Irish/British alternative rock band My Bloody Valentine in the late 1980s and early 1990s and has resumed this role as of 2007. He has also played for Primal Scream since 1997, played and produced with Dinosaur Jr. frontman J Mascis on Dinosaur's Hand It Over (with Bilinda Butcher) and J Mascis and the Fog's More Light, and recently contributed music to the motion picture Lost in Translation.Although holding a U.S. passport,[1] Shields spent his adolescence in Dublin, Ireland after moving there with his family at the age of ten