Jeff Buckley’s mother is breaking her silence on her son’s tragic death

The still-grieving mother also explained how deeply music was ingrained in her boy from childhood. “Music was something that was very, very deep in Jeff’s soul — bless his heart,” she said.

“I have pictures of him when he was just three, singing I’m a Little Teacup.”

Buckley was born after a brief relationship between Guibert and the folk singer Tim Buckley, who died of a heroin overdose at the age of 28.

Jeff grew up with his stepfather, Ron Moorhead. “As far as he was concerned, his father was Ron Moorhead,” Guibert explained.

Tim never sent a birthday or Christmas card. Yet Jeff eventually confronted his father’s legacy by performing one of Tim’s songs: I never asked to be your mountainduring a 1991 tribute to his father.

“It was really a big thing for him,” Guibert said of that moment. “He had to learn his father’s songs even better than his father sang them, but he had his own voice.”