Comments on: Klaus Nomi https://conradaskland.com/blog/klaus-nomi/ Music Director and Music Technology Sun, 25 Oct 2020 20:20:14 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.8 By: Cristina https://conradaskland.com/blog/klaus-nomi/#comment-1309256 Sun, 25 Oct 2020 20:20:14 +0000 http://www.conradaskland.com/blog/2007/08/klaus-nomi/#comment-1309256 I discovered Klaus only a while ago, but it’s as if I’ve known him all my life. He inspires my every step.

]]> By: Nagasumii https://conradaskland.com/blog/klaus-nomi/#comment-1306480 Mon, 05 Oct 2020 20:18:01 +0000 http://www.conradaskland.com/blog/2007/08/klaus-nomi/#comment-1306480 Hi! While surfing through Nina Hagen’s music videos, this cartoonish thumbnail caught my eyes and i curiously clicked to see what it was about, and here i am. But ever since a strange realization baffled me, why i never heard about Klaus Nomi from any music journals? If it weren’t for curiosity i wouldn’ve never discovered this Treasure Trove.
R.I.P Klaus Nomi

]]> By: Fluiermikeabit https://conradaskland.com/blog/klaus-nomi/#comment-1288846 Mon, 27 Apr 2020 18:29:15 +0000 http://www.conradaskland.com/blog/2007/08/klaus-nomi/#comment-1288846 I learned about Klaus recently, I can’t put him out of my head now. A great artist, casts a very long shadow. Thanks for the post.

]]> By: Tucker https://conradaskland.com/blog/klaus-nomi/#comment-1187507 Sat, 12 May 2018 13:13:21 +0000 http://www.conradaskland.com/blog/2007/08/klaus-nomi/#comment-1187507 I am just finding out about Klaus Nomi! I clicked on a video in the suggestion column on YouTube (Lightning Strikes) and was blown away! A month later I am reading, watching and listening to everything I can! I think he was as genuine as he seemed. I know what it feels like to be an outsider/wierdo. Thank you for the interpretation of the French interview.
Nomi forever!

]]> By: askland https://conradaskland.com/blog/klaus-nomi/#comment-324698 Sat, 21 May 2011 04:56:13 +0000 http://www.conradaskland.com/blog/2007/08/klaus-nomi/#comment-324698 Ange – I agree with your comments as if I’d written them myself. Klaus is very special.

]]> By: Ange- https://conradaskland.com/blog/klaus-nomi/#comment-324391 Fri, 20 May 2011 05:40:32 +0000 http://www.conradaskland.com/blog/2007/08/klaus-nomi/#comment-324391 Thank you for posting this site; I was a fan in the ’80’s and into the 90’s and if I met someone who may have heard of Klaus as well, then they were a friend of mine! I loved his gentleness, his originality and the ability to really put himself out there. Having the videos to watch, plus that interview from 1982, make me both happy and sad at the same time. He inspires me to this day.
I am a fan, but feel it is something deeper and to all who follow such a soul I think you know what I mean.

]]> By: askland https://conradaskland.com/blog/klaus-nomi/#comment-226567 Thu, 22 Jul 2010 19:27:08 +0000 http://www.conradaskland.com/blog/2007/08/klaus-nomi/#comment-226567 Jet – I am so jealous that you got to meet Mr. Nomi – what an experience!

I just updated this page with some additional Klaus Nomi music videos and also an interview from 1982 French TV. Enjoy!

]]> By: Jet https://conradaskland.com/blog/klaus-nomi/#comment-226517 Thu, 22 Jul 2010 16:07:50 +0000 http://www.conradaskland.com/blog/2007/08/klaus-nomi/#comment-226517 Hello,

I admired Klaus very much and first saw him in Mr. Mike’s Mondo video.
I had the pleasure of meeting Klaus while wondering around the streets when I lived in NYC in 1981, he was a very nice guy, and gave me one of his buttons with his logo, (plain with no text, very cool)
Klaus was an interesting, creative, visionary artist, and also a pleasant and polite individual to meet.

(wondering the streets there and then is like surfing the web today, never knew what you were going to run onto)

Glad I met the guy, shame he died young

regards,
Jet

]]> By: askland https://conradaskland.com/blog/klaus-nomi/#comment-63136 Sat, 19 Jan 2008 20:06:25 +0000 http://www.conradaskland.com/blog/2007/08/klaus-nomi/#comment-63136 We can Klaus if we want to
We can leave your friends behind (Klaus would never leave a friend’s behind)
Cause your friends don’t Klaus
And if they don’t Klaus
Well they’re no friends of mine

]]> By: Mari https://conradaskland.com/blog/klaus-nomi/#comment-63110 Sat, 19 Jan 2008 17:09:58 +0000 http://www.conradaskland.com/blog/2007/08/klaus-nomi/#comment-63110 Hello. I came upon “The Nomi Song” by accident while scrolling thru “ON DEMAND” on cable. Blew me away. I can count on the fingers of one hand the performances that I have seen in my life which brought tears to my eyes. His performance in the New Wave Vaudeville Show brought the tears. Beautiful voice, he stayed completely in character at all times! (no little achievement!), he was interesting, bright obviously, very sweet personality, and I wish I could have known him. What a darling person! I have just ordered one of his albums from Amazon.com. Of course this unusual personality is not to everyone’s taste. So? I know what I like! And, as was wisely said by one of the commentators on the documentary, “This is art, and you are not.” True. I wish he could have had a longer life. There is not a doubt in my mind that he would have been a highly respected world famous operatic tenor in the same category as was Pavarotti and others. His contacting AIDS was bad luck. In those days, most of us were fooling around sexually and we had no inkling that there was a disease out there that would kill us if we contracted it. I luckily, there’s no other explanation…did not contract it. Twenty years later my tests still come back negative…so far. Who can figure? The universe is indifferent to us as humans. If there is an afterlife, Nomi is singing arias for the gods.

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