Glyn Styler is a New Orleans-based vocalist in the tradition of Scott Walker

Scott Walker (singer)

Scott Walker, born Noel Scott Engel on January 9, 1943 is an American singer-songwriter, musician, record producer, and the former lead singer of The Walker Brothers. Despite being American born, Walker's chart success has largely come in the United Kingdom, where his first four solo albums...

, Leonard Cohen

Leonard Cohen

Leonard Norman Cohen, is a Canadian singer-songwriter, musician, poet and novelist. Cohen published his first book of poetry in Montreal in 1956 and his first novel in 1963. His work often explores religion, isolation, sexuality and interpersonal relationships...

, Iggy Pop

Iggy Pop

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, and Laura Nyro

Laura Nyro

Laura Nyro was an American songwriter, singer, and pianist. She achieved considerable critical acclaim with her own recordings, particularly the albums Eli and the Thirteenth Confession and New York Tendaberry, and had commercial success with artists such as Barbra Streisand and The 5th...

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Glyn Styler is a character created by Brent Newman, a reclusive, middle-aged mattress salesman who lives an alter ego in New Orleans nightclubs where he can become suspended in time and mood.
With a "swanky" wig on his head, a microphone in one hand and a cocktail in the other, Styler sings wrenching songs about lost love, betrayal and loneliness that come straight from his bleak, nihilistic and broken heart.

There is speculation based on Styler/Newman's alluding to a background including an unstable marriage, two kids, and a string of stays in mental health facilities that his music is a genuine cathartic expression.

Recordings include Live at the Mermaid Lounge (1997), recorded at the New Orleans music club of the same name (which has since shut down), and The Desperate Ones, a 1998 EP on which he sings a duet cover of Jacques Brel

Jacques Brel

Jacques Brel was a Belgian singer-songwriter who composed and performed literate, thoughtful, and theatrical songs that generated a large, devoted following in France initially, and later throughout the world. He was widely considered a master of the modern chanson...

's song The Desperate Ones with Lydia Lunch

Lydia Lunch

Lydia Lunch is an American singer, poet, writer, and actress whose career was spawned by the New York No Wave scene...

 and also includes the drum machine flavored Won’t Stop Loving You and an instrumental version of the title track.

In 2001, Glyn Styler appeared in legendary exploitation filmmaker Doris Wishman

Doris Wishman

Doris Wishman was an American film director, screenwriter and independent film producer....

's "Satan Was A Lady"http://imdb.com/title/tt0275655/ as Ed Baines.

Styler was mentioned recently in the popular New Orleans blog Slimbolala, which mentions a real-world encounter with the singer at his mattress salesman day job, where Styler revealed he will soon return to his live act after a hiatus brought on by the devastation of Hurricane Katrina

Hurricane Katrina

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