5/30/2023 0 Comments Alter ego band schedule 2017After the Dolls broke up, David Johansen abandoned the makeup and fishnets to don a tuxedo, pomped up his hair, and became campy lounge singer named Buster Poindexter. This career reinvention was remarkably successful thanks in part to his cover of “Hot Hot Hot,” and the four other records that followed. Johansen eventually tired of the character and went back to making music under his own name and with the reunited New York Dolls in 2004. Prince’s unreleased albums are nearly as famous as the ones he did release, with the only comfort being that some of this shelved material ended up on official albums. Such is the case with Camille, the 1986 unreleased self-titled debut by Prince’s gender-fluid alter ego. While Prince was no stranger to employing his falsetto (or alter egos, for that matter: Jamie Starr, Tora Tora and Alexander Nevermind are just a few others), for Camille, he purposely recorded his vocals at a slower speed and then adjusted them to the higher pitch to achieve a more feminine sounding voice. ![]() Most of the Camille tracks later appeared on 1987’s Sign O’ The Times, including “Strange Relationship,” “If I Was Your Girlfriend” and its B-side “Shockadelica.” His Camille character was also the guiding force responsible for another shelved release, The Black Album, which featured two other Prince alter egos, Bob George and Spooky Electric. Hip-hop has its fair share of alter egos. After all, Kool Keith has some 58 personas that have appeared over the decades. ![]() ![]() Eminem wouldn’t fully come to prominence until he unleashed his sinister alter ego, Slim Shady, for 1997’s The Slim Shady EP and 1999’s The Slim Shady LP. Slim Shady’s just an angry side for me to vent.” While Marshall Mathers writes about being a father, and Eminem pontificates on the pitfalls of fame, Slim is the fast-rapping, sadistic, and darkly funny side of him that made him a star and terrorized the media.Īs he said in an interview, “Everybody’s got two sides to them.
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