Klaus Nomi – Klaus Nomi Music CD

Born Klaus Sperber in Bavaria, Nomi transplanted himself to New York's downtown art scene in the late 1970s, where his otherworldly countertenor and theatrical persona made him a singular figure in the intersection of new wave, opera, and performance art. His 1981 self-titled debut captured something that almost no recording could fully contain, a voice and vision so strange and pure it still sounds like it arrived from somewhere outside of time.