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Klaus Sperber (January 24, 1944 – August 6, 1983), known professionally as Klaus Nomi, was a German countertenor noted for his wide vocal range and an unusual, otherworldly stage persona. In the 1970s Nomi immersed himself in the East Village art scene.
Jun 30, 2022 · A wide range of musical genres fueled New York’s nightclubs in the late 1970s and early ’80s, including new wave, no wave, punk and post-punk. Klaus Nomi, who performed during that era, defied ...
Aug 15, 2023 · That's the question asked by visionary German singer and performance artist Klaus Nomi on Nomi Song, a self-referential gem from his eponymous debut album, first released in 1981.
Dec 10, 2015 · Klaus Nomi self-identified as an alien, and to all intents and purposes he looked like one. Nomi further refined his onstage persona the following year, when he performed...
Jun 18, 2019 · Klaus Nomi is an easy artist to eulogize. The German-born East Village fixture’s striking, self-made look and soaring operatic countertenor—in layman’s terms, he sang really, really...
Aug 1, 2011 · The video above shows Klaus Nomi’s last performance before his death. Towards the end of 1982, he returned to Europe for a small concert tour and also performed at Eberhard Schoener’s Classic Rock Night in Munich, close to the place where he was born.
Nov 15, 2019 · Nobody could do camp quite like Klaus Nomi. He left the downtown New York club scene speechless with soaring operatic vocals, dressed in his signature triangular vinyl tuxedo complete with smoke bombs, punk rock nuances and 1950s sci-fi sound effects.
Jan 24, 2019 · Nomi was Bowie’s senior by three years and two weeks, being born Klaus Sperber in the Bavarian town of Immenstadt im Allgäu on 24 January 1944; when Germany, Europe and much of the world was suffering the horrors of Hitler and Nazi tyranny.
The bill included a stripper, a singing dog and a performance artist dressed as a sadistic nun. As the closing act, Nomi sang an aria from Camille Saint-Saëns’ “Samson et Dalila” while wearing a transparent raincoat over a shiny, fitted top and pants along with dramatic eye makeup and lipstick.
One of the 1980s’ most profoundly bizarre characters to emerge through rock music, the late Klaus Nomi specialized in unexpected mixes of vocal styles in anomalous settings. The Bavarian-born singer’s awesome falsetto and dramatic tenor were equally applied to classical music and rock’n’roll, producing startling records that ramble ...
