Occupation: Vocalizer Birth: January 24, 1944 Death: August 6, 1983
I'm from Planet Nomi where I wear black lipstick so you can see my lips and what I am doing with them..
The urge to sing was so strong one day I performed in a club and it was very successful..
People are so nice to each other on holidays...especially at Christmas. Why don't people beat up each other at Christmas? Now that would be fun!.
I go on stage and people like what I look like; as soon as I'm outside I feel like I have to hide, because people laugh at me, because of the way I l….
A man without makeup is like a cake without icing..
I do kind of transcend the song and give it a different meaning..
I feel threatened, and sometimes it makes me angry because I can't do anything about that, there's just too many issues. But in a way I think my work….
People do accuse me of being just decorative or an escapist - well I am. That's what I do. I am other things as well. I transcend the song and give i….
My music is L-O-V-E because it's a gift, and you only give something when you feel it deeply..
I come as the wicked witch from the Barock era..
I approach everything as an absolute outsider. It is the only way I can break so many rules..
The way I look it is hard to look like a normal person. You know, in the streets when I was a kid, people always said I looked strange, and it made m….
Elvis Presley is my spiritual father, and as you may know Maria Callas is my spiritual mother..
It was just as shocking for me to sing opera in a falsetto soprano in Germany..
When I was twelve, the biggest name in Rock and Roll was Elvis Presley. I bought an EP, "King Creole". I hid it in the basement, but my mother found ….
There are moments in my show that are very moving as well as amusing..
I did every thing, even dirty jobs like dishwashing or delivery boy for a grocer..
It is a very personal thing to me, because this is my basic voice, this is where I come from, and it is one of the oldest voice styles in human histo….
I think opera music is very conservative, and Rock and Roll music is conservative as well, and that's why I'm trying to make a bridge between these t….
I think it is nice to be a little magical. Today we need this. All that we can read in fairy tales or in books. I think somewhere it is all around us….
Well, you know, I am in the business and I like to promote myself..