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Cedric Bixler-Zavala (born November 4, 1974) is an American musician. He has been the lead singer and lyricist of the
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since its inception in 2001. He was the lead singer and only constant member of the
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, the lead singer of the band Antemasque, and singer and guitarist in the band
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.


Early life

Cedric Bixler-Zavala was born as Cedric Bixler in
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. His father, Dennis Bixler-Marquez, was born in
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to a white American man of partial German ancestry and a Mexican woman. His mother, Rosa Zavala, is Mexican-American and was born in
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. His father is a professor of Chicano Studies at
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. His parents were bilingual, but Bixler-Zavala says his command of proper Spanish is limited to "
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". His Spanish maternal surname, Zavala, is a Castilian version of Zabala, of
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origin. In the early 1990s, Bixler-Zavala played drums and was a vocalist for a band named
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which included
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on bass before the latter's political career.


Career

Under the pseudonym "Alavaz Relxib Cirdec" ("Cedric Bixler-Zavala" backwards), Bixler-Zavala contributed a two-song single to the GSL Special 12-inch Singles Series, released in December 2005. Closer to the dub of De Facto and the ambient experimentation shown in
Omar Rodríguez-López Omar Alfredo Rodríguez-López (born September 1, 1975) is a Puerto Rican guitarist, songwriter, record producer and filmmaker. He has formed or played in several bands, including The Mars Volta, At the Drive-In, Antemasque, and Bosnian Rainb ...
's records than the prog-rock of
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, the two songs Bixler-Zavala has produced under this alias are entirely instrumental. In 2010, he commented on
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about the recording process: Late 2011 saw the release of the first 7-inch record from Bixler's new project Anywhere, a collaboration with Christian Eric Beaulieu of
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and
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of
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/ Firehose/
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. Their self-titled debut album was released by ATP Records in June 2012. In 2011, Bixler began working on another album, which he described as "mostly ballady type stuff... a very Sunday morning record. Very soft". Eventually the solo project turned into a full-fledged band named
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, which features Bixler on lead vocals and guitar,
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on guitar,
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on bass and
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on drums. The band is set to play a number of West Coast tour dates throughout June, supported by
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and EV Kain. On June 3, 2013, a snippet from song "Blue Rose of Grand Street" off their upcoming album ''All the Nights We Never Met'' was released on YouTube. Bixler-Zavala returned to the studio after reuniting with
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due to Red Hot Chili Peppers bassist,
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, wanting them to reunite. In 2014 they formed a supergroup together called Antemasque with ex-Mars Volta drummer Dave Elitch. The band recorded and released their
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in 2014. Fans have cited that as Flea and Dave have played with the Mars Volta prior, a Mars Volta reunion could be in the works. (Flea played bass on 2003's
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and trumpet on 2005's ''
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''; Dave played with the Mars Volta from 2009 to 2010.) In February 2018, Bixler Zavala confirmed on
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that the Mars Volta would reunite, but later clarified that
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activity will take precedence for the immediate future.


Artistry

Bixler-Zavala has a
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voice type with a vocal range spanning from G#2 to D6, in addition to a speculated possible range reaching as low as E2 and as high as C7. His vocal work spans many different styles, ranging from consistent rhythmic shouts (common in his singing with At the Drive-In) to controlled
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and head voice singing (a familiar trademark of his singing with the Mars Volta). In 2016, it was also revealed that Bixler-Zavala developed vocal nodules, causing shows to be canceled while on tour. Bixler-Zavala is fond of
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esque humor and writes in
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,
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, and
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. His lyrics have a wide vocabulary and often feature complicated
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. Bixler-Zavala also uses
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s: combining existing words, or parts of words, to create a new word. The song " Noctourniquet", for example, combines "
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" (active at night) and "
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" (a medical device to stop bleeding). He has stated: "I love to take common sayings, pervert them, mutate them a little. So you think I am singing one thing, but when you read it, it is different." He has described
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of The Fall as "one of the pillars of influence for me as a lyricist". When performing with At the Drive-in and The Mars Volta, Bixler-Zavala is known for his eccentric on-stage behavior. He frequently does somersaults on stage, swings his microphone (once unintentionally hitting bandmate
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in the head), throws objects such as cymbals, microphone stands, and trash cans into the audience, salsa dances, adjusts
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's effects pedals and occasionally plays the maracas.


Personal life

In 2009, Bixler-Zavala married actress and model Chrissie Carnell. The couple reside in
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. They had their first children, twin boys Ulysses and Xanthus, in 2013. In November 2017, he said in a pair of tweets that actor
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had sexually assaulted his wife, and that he wrote At the Drive-In's song "Incurably Innocent" about the alleged incident. Bixler-Zavala is a former member of the
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and had credited Scientology with his changed attitude on the use of drugs. He attended the Church of Scientology
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event in 2013. In 2015, Bixler-Zavala spoke about his decision to stop smoking
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. "I was spending $1,000 a week on weed", he said, and rationalized his use by believing it made him more creative, when he later came to realize "I was using it to form this stoned bubble that helped me justify not wanting to interact with people." However, by 2017 he had become a harsh critic of Scientology, calling its "self help volcano ..as barren as a floating needle. A placebo of Sugary
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" and accusing it of silencing sexual assault victims and of harassing both him and his wife; in 2018, he accused it of covering up his wife's alleged sexual assault and called it "a modern-day version of ''
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''". In 2020, Bixler-Zavala's dog died after allegedly eating raw meat laced with
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that had been tossed into their yard. Bixler-Zavala alleged that the Church of Scientology was responsible, though they have denied the accusations. Bixler-Zavala's life has been heavily impacted by the deaths of people who have been in close association with him, several of which have become themes for his lyrics. Jimmy Hernandez, bass player for Los Dregtones, died of cancer in 1994. The year after, the original drummer for At the Drive-In, Bernie Rincon, died by suicide. In 1996, a close friend and band-mate of Bixler-Zavala's, Los Dregtones bassist Julio Venegas, also died by suicide. The story behind the Mars Volta's first album ''
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'' was loosely inspired by "life and death of Julio Venegas". During the following year, two of his bandmates of the group The Fall on Deaf Ears, Laura Beard and Sarah Reiser, died in a car accident. In May 2003, their sound manipulator and longtime friend of Bixler-Zavala and Omar Rodríguez-López, Jeremy Ward, was found dead of apparent heroin overdose. In October 2014,
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, former bandmate and keyboardist for Bixler-Zavala's previous bands De Facto and
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(the latter from 2001 to 2010), was found dead in Puebla, Puebla, Puebla, Mexico, while on tour with Jack White. Owens was 39 years old and his cause of death was later confirmed to be a heart attack. Bixler-Zavala endorsed 2020 United States presidential election, 2020 presidential candidate Bernie Sanders and denounced the support of Joe Biden by his former Foss bandmate and 2020 presidential candidate
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. In response to a fan on Instagram who said that O'Rourke's support of Biden "bummed me out bad", Bixler-Zavala said "me too."


Discography


As Alavaz Relxib Cirdec

*''The Special 12 Singles Series'' – "Live Private Booths" / "Sapta Loka" single (2005)


With Antemasque

* ''Antemasque (album), Antemasque'' – LP (2014)


With Anywhere

* ''Anywhere (Anywhere album), Anywhere'' – LP (2012) * ''Light The Portals'' – LP (2016) * ''Anywhere II'' – LP (2018)


With At the Drive-In

* ''Hell Paso'' (1994) – re-release – EP * ''Alfaro Vive, Carajo!'' (1995) – EP * ''Acrobatic Tenement'' (1996, re-release 2004) – LP * ''El Gran Orgo'' (1997) – EP * ''In/Casino/Out'' (1998, re-release 2004) – LP * ''Vaya (EP), Vaya'' (1999, re-release 2004) – EP *''Sunshine / At the Drive-In'' (2000) – EP * ''Relationship of Command'' (2000, re-release 2004) – LP * ''This Station Is Non-Operational'' (2005) – compilation * ''in•ter a•li•a'' (2017) – LP * ''Diamanté (EP), Diamanté'' (2017) – EP


With Big Sir

*''Before Gardens After Gardens'' – LP (2012)


With De Facto

*''How Do You Dub? You Fight For Dub, You Plug Dub In'' – LP (1999/2001) *''456132015'' – EP (2001) *''Megaton Shotblast'' – LP (2001) *''Légende du Scorpion à Quatre Queues'' – LP (2001)


With The Fall on Deaf Ears

* '' The Fall on Deaf Ears – EP'' (1996)


With Foss

*''The El Paso Pussycats'' (1993) – 7-inch *''Foss'' (1993) *''Fewel St.'' (1994)


With Thee Gambede Meatleak

*''The Crab, The Bear, The Tiger, The Moose, The Bird'' (1995)


With Los Dregtones

*''5 Song Alibi'' (1994)


With the Mars Volta

* ''Tremulant (EP), Tremulant'' – EP (2002) * ''
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'' – LP (2003) * ''Live (The Mars Volta EP), Live'' – EP (2003) * ''
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'' – LP (2005) * ''Scabdates'' – LP (2005) * ''Amputechture'' – LP (2006) * ''The Bedlam in Goliath'' – LP (2008) * ''Octahedron (album), Octahedron'' – LP (2009) * '' Noctourniquet'' – LP (2012) * ''Landscape Tantrums'' – LP (2021) * ''The Mars Volta (album), The Mars Volta'' – LP (2022) * ''Que Dios Te Maldiga Mi Corazón'' (2023) * ''Lucro Sucio; Los Ojos del Vacío'' (2025)


With Omar Rodríguez-López

* ''A Manual Dexterity: Soundtrack Volume 1'' (2004) *''Omar Rodriguez (album), Omar Rodriguez'' (2005) *''Se Dice Bisonte, No Búfalo'' (2007) *''Calibration (Is Pushing Luck and Key Too Far)'' (2007) *''Old Money (album), Old Money'' (2008) *''Cryptomnesia (album), Cryptomnesia'' (2009) *''Sympathy for Delicious'' OST – 3 tracks as 'Burnt the Dipthongs' *''Telesterion (album), Telesterion'' (2011) *''Some Need It Lonely'' (2016)


With RJs Prospectors

*TBA (2009)


With Zavalaz

* ''All Those Nights We Never Met'' - LP (unreleased)


Guest appearances

* ''Rise Above: 24 Black Flag Songs to Benefit the West Memphis Three'' – various artists backed by the Rollins Band (2002) ("I've Had It") * ''Decomposition'' – Thavius Beck (2004) ("Amongst The Shadows") * ''Burn Right Through'' – Sand Which Is (2000) ("Plasticity Index") * ''White People (album), White People'' – Handsome Boy Modeling School (2004) ("A Day In The Life") *''Blood Mountain (album), Blood Mountain'' – Mastodon (band), Mastodon (2006) ("Siberian Divide") *''I'll Sleep When You're Dead'' – El-Producto, El-P (2007) ("Tasmanian Pain Coaster") *''Weareallgoingtoburninhellmegamixx2 / Eat My Garbage'' - El-Producto, El-P (2008) ("Tasmanian Pain Coaster (A Cappella)") *''Vivid Green'' – Nobody (producer), Nobody (2013) ("Our Last Dance") *''Oh Dead On Oh Love'' – Lisa Papineau (2019) ("Hey Lord Take Me Over") *''Kingdom Of Sleep'' - Jonny Polonsky (2020) ("Ghost Like Soul")


As producer

*''Hell Paso'' by
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(1994) co-produced with other members of At the Drive-In *''¡Alfaro Vive, Carajo! (EP), ¡Alfaro Vive, Carajo!'' by At the Drive-In (1995) co-produced with other members of At the Drive-In *''El Gran Orgo'' by At the Drive-In (1997) co-produced with Bryan Jones and other members of At the Drive-In *''Sunshine / At the Drive-In'' by At the Drive-In (2000) co-produced with other members of At the Drive-In *''Live (The Mars Volta EP), Live'' by The Mars Volta (2003) co-produced with
Omar Rodríguez-López Omar Alfredo Rodríguez-López (born September 1, 1975) is a Puerto Rican guitarist, songwriter, record producer and filmmaker. He has formed or played in several bands, including The Mars Volta, At the Drive-In, Antemasque, and Bosnian Rainb ...


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External links

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