Pal Shazar is an American

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. She was a founding member of the 1980s new wave pop group Slow Children, 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). As a painter, her artwork was featured on the cover of The Waterboys' '' Dream Harder'' album. She

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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 1998 book ''The Erotic Lives of Women'', which included photos that were also used for the cover art of Shazar's 1997 album ''Woman Under the Influence''. In 2013, she self-published ''Pal Shazar's La Strada'', a collection of 42 paintings, inspired by the Fellini film

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. In 2015, she self-published ''You Don't Know Me'', a collection of pastel portraits. As a writer, Shazar self-published her novel, ''Janitor'', in 2011. An excerpt from the book was previously published in 2004 for the ''Penthouse'' feature "Women's Erotic Fiction". Alexandria Quarterly Publications (AQP) published a collection of her short stories, ''Deliver Love'', in 2017, and ''Volleyball on Tuinal'', a collection of poems, in 2021. Shazar wrote a collection of songs based on her novel ''Janitor'', and AQP published a book of the lyrics in 2019, which was packaged with a CD of the songs. In January 2013, Shazar and her husband, singer/songwriter Jules Shear, released ''Shear Shazar''. Their follow-up EP ''Mess You Up'' was released in 2014.

Discography

Slow Children albums

*'' Slow Children'' - 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