Pal Shazar is an American

singer/songwriter A singer-songwriter is a musician who writes, composes, and performs their own musical material, including lyrics and melodies. In the United States, the category is built on the folk-acoustic tradition, although this role has transmuted thr ...

. She was a founding member of the 1980s new wave pop group

Slow Children Slow Children is an American new wave pop group consisting of Pal Shazar and Andrew Chinich. They released two albums on a major label, Ensign, in 1981 and 1982, and a third self-released album in 2016. Discography Albums *''Slow Children Sl ...

, and married one of the band's producers,

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, in the late 1980s.

Career

Slow Children released two albums on the

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label, the self titled debut in 1981 and ''Mad About Town'' in 1982. Shazar released several CDs, starting in the 1990s, on various labels. Shazar co-wrote several songs with

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for his album ''Inside'' (1986), and wrote lyrics for

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for her album ''Make It Beautiful'' (2000). Shazar is also a painter; an example of her work is featured on the cover of

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'' album, and she has

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ed 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 Shazar's 1997 album ''Woman Under the Influence''. In May 2011, Shazar'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'' feature "Women's Erotic Fiction". In 2013, she self-published ''Pal Shazar's La Strada'', a collection of 42 paintings, inspired by the 1954 film of the same name. In January 2013, Shazar and her husband, singer/songwriter Jules Shear, released ''Shear Shazar''. Their follow-up EP was released in 2014.

Discography

Slow Children albums

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'' - 1981 *''Mad About Town'' - 1982 *''CottonCloud9'' - 2016

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'' - 2019 * ''Blondes Prefer Gentlemen'' - 2020

Pal Shazar CD EPs

* ''The Requiem Tapes'' - 1994 * ''Promo CD'' - 1995 * ''Penny for Your Thoughts'' - 1996

Other

* ''

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'' Movie Soundtrack - 1996

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Shazar, Pal 1952 births Living people American women songwriters American women pop singers 21st-century American women