COLLECTION 2 - AVANT-GARDE

What is your first music memory?
Seeing Leontyne Price sing on television.
Do you feel that there was an evolution in
your creativity or inspiration?
When I moved away from doing rock music and into
focusing on the voice again that would be the major
evolution. Also not working with other musicians and
working alone playing piano alone with voice.
Is there another art than music that particularly
feeds your creativity?
Because I come from visual arts, that would have to
be one but also film. The work of Pasolini and Bunuel
have been very central for me. Also writers like Bell
Hooks, Cornel West, Franz Fanon, Angela Davis
KALTBLUT
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M.Lamar is an intense performer
crossing borders of song writing and
classical vocal training. Engaged in a
performance practice, he is a spiritual
child of Klaus Nomi. His countertenor
voice serves his stories about gender
and race in a über-powerful show.
He answered some questions for Kaltblut.
What’s on your desk at the moment?
I don’t have a desk...
Where is your favorite place to listen to
music?
When I am singing in Cathedrals.
M.Lamar
When you get old, do you like to lose first
your hair or your teeth?
Well neither but if I had to choose my teeth.
You can follow his work here:
www.mlamar.com
www.youtube.com/watch?v=VPrazIUjDW4
www.youtu.be/zrWD_KQ_7nw