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Pal Shazar is an American singer/songwriter. She was a founding member of the 1980s new wave pop group Slow Children, and married one of the band's producers, Jules Shear, in the late 1980s.




Career


Slow Children released two albums on the RCA Records 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 Matthew Sweet for his album Inside (1986), and wrote lyrics for Sara Lee for her album Make It Beautiful (2000).
As a painter, her artwork was featured on the cover of The Waterboys' Dream Harder album.
She self-published 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 La Strada.
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

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Slow Children - 1981
Mad About Town - 1982
CottonCloud9 - 2016




= Pal Shazar CD albums

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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

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




= Other

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Walking and Talking Movie Soundtrack - 1996




References






External links


Official website

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• Pal Shazar
• Jules Shear discography
• Shazar
• Jules Shear
• Slow Children
• Pal (given name)
• Dream Harder
• Sara Lee (musician)
• Inside (Matthew Sweet album)
• Jay Bellerose