Pal Shazar
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Pal Shazar is a US
singer/songwriter. She was a founding member, with Andrew Chinich, of the 1980s New Wave
pop group
Slow Children, and married one of the band's producers Jules Shear
in the late 1980s.
Slow Children released two albums on the RCA Records
label, both in 1981. Shazar released several CDs, starting in the 1990s, on various labels.
Shazar co-wrote several songs with Matthew Sweet
for his album Inside (1986), and wrote lyrics for Sara Lee
for her album Make It Beautiful (2000).
Shazar is also a painter; an example of her work is featured on the cover of the Waterboys Dream Harder
album, and she has self-published a book of lyrics and art Pal Shazar The Illustrated Lyrics in 2008.
Shazar was featured on the cover of photographer Linda Troeller's book The Erotic Lives of Women, which included photos that were also used for the graphics of Pal's 1997 album Woman Under The Influence.
In May 2011 Pal's first novel 'JANITOR' was self-published. It is an erotic story as told by the title character. The man's point of view is also expressed in the accompanying CD of 13 songs that illustrate every chapter. An excerpt from the book was previously published in a PENTHOUSE MAGAZINE feature 'Women's Erotic Fiction.'
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United States
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singer/songwriter. She was a founding member, with Andrew Chinich, of the 1980s New Wave
New Wave music
New Wave is a subgenre of :rock music that emerged in the mid to late 1970s alongside punk rock. The term at first generally was synonymous with punk rock before being considered a genre in its own right that incorporated aspects of electronic and experimental music, mod subculture, disco and 1960s...
pop group
Pop music
Pop music is usually understood to be commercially recorded music, often oriented toward a youth market, usually consisting of relatively short, simple songs utilizing technological innovations to produce new variations on existing themes.- Definitions :David Hatch and Stephen Millward define pop...
Slow Children, and married one of the band's producers Jules Shear
Jules Shear
Jules Mark Shear is a US singer, songwriter, and guitarist born in Pittsburgh in 1952. Although he has had only one minor hit as a performer , he has recorded almost 20 albums to date...
in the late 1980s.
Slow Children released two albums on the RCA Records
RCA Records
RCA Records is one of the flagship labels of Sony Music Entertainment. The RCA initials stand for Radio Corporation of America , which was the parent corporation from 1929 to 1985 and a partner from 1985 to 1986.RCA's Canadian unit is Sony's oldest label...
label, both in 1981. Shazar released several CDs, starting in the 1990s, on various labels.
Shazar co-wrote several songs with Matthew Sweet
Matthew Sweet
Sidney Matthew Sweet is an American alternative rock/power pop musician. He was part of the burgeoning Athens, Georgia music scene in the early and mid-1980s before gaining commercial success during the early 1990s...
for his album Inside (1986), and wrote lyrics for Sara Lee
Sara Lee (musician)
Sara Lee is an English bassist and singer-songwriter, best known for replacing Dave Allen on bass guitar in post-punk band Gang of Four. Lee confirmed in an interview on Rundgrenradio.com that Sara Lee is her birth name.-Biography:...
for her album Make It Beautiful (2000).
Shazar is also a painter; an example of her work is featured on the cover of the Waterboys Dream Harder
Dream Harder
Dream Harder is an album released in 1993 credited to The Waterboys, but recorded by Mike Scott with session musicians. It was the last Waterboys album before Scott spent seven year pursuing a formal solo career, with Bring 'em All In and Still Burning...
album, and she has self-published a book of lyrics and art Pal Shazar The Illustrated Lyrics in 2008.
Shazar was featured on the cover of photographer Linda Troeller's book The Erotic Lives of Women, which included photos that were also used for the graphics of Pal's 1997 album Woman Under The Influence.
In May 2011 Pal's first novel 'JANITOR' was self-published. It is an erotic story as told by the title character. The man's point of view is also expressed in the accompanying CD of 13 songs that illustrate every chapter. An excerpt from the book was previously published in a PENTHOUSE MAGAZINE feature 'Women's Erotic Fiction.'
Discography
Slow Children albums:- Slow ChildrenSlow Children (album)Slow Children was Slow Children's 1981 debut album.There was a release in the U.K with an album cover art concept that was adapted from Jean Cocteau's "The Blood of a Poet" .There was also a U.S...
- 1981 - Mad About Town - 1981
Pal Shazar CD albums:
- Cowbeat Of My Heart - 1991
- There's a Wild Thing In The House - 1995
- Woman Under The Influence - 1997
- Safe - 1999
- Shazar No. 5 - 2002
- The Morning After - 2006
- "Psychedelicate"- 2009
- "Janitor"- 2011
Pal Shazar CD EPs:
- The Requiem Tapes - 1994
- Promo CD - 1995
- Penny For Your Thoughts - 1996
Other:
- Walking and TalkingWalking and TalkingWalking and Talking is a 1996 independent film starring Catherine Keener, Anne Heche, Todd Field, Liev Schreiber and Kevin Corrigan.Walking and Talking is a story about two women best friends and how they deal with their changing relationship as one prepares to get married and the other struggles...
Movie Soundtrack - 1996