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David Bowie to voice role on ‘SpongeBob’
Rocker says he's ‘hit the Holy Grail of animation gigs’
 Shannon Stapleton / Reuters file | David Bowie's daughter, Alexandria Zahra, watches the show with her dad. |
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NEW YORK - All it took was daddy’s little girl to turn David Bowie from a rock star into the voice of a cartoon.
Bowie will be a guest on Nickelodeon’s “SpongeBob SquarePants,” playing a character called Lord Royal Highness in a show that will air next year.
Bowie, 59, said his 6-year-old daughter, Alexandria Zahra, is a huge SpongeBob fan and they watch the show together. He wrote in his blog that he’s “hit the Holy Grail of animation gigs.
“We, the family, are thrilled. Nothing else need happen this year, well, this week anyway,” Bowie said.
Bowie, who received a lifetime achievement honor at the Grammys this year and whose songs include “Fame,” “Young Americans” and “Space Oddity,” was previously the voice of Boz in David Cage’s 1999 “Omikron: The Nomad Soul.” He plays inventor and electrical engineer Nikola Tesla in Christopher Nolan’s upcoming movie “The Prestige,” in theaters Oct. 20.
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