M. LAMAR
is a classical vocalist and performance artist whose events fuse:

• Operatic, gospel, rock and cabaret improvisation
• Original material
• Minimalist macabre theatrical and visual environments
• Direct address and other textual political and philosophical interventions

Descended but never derived from the methods and media of:

• Black avantgarde
• Poststructural theoretical
• Punk rock
• Revolutionary decolonizing
• Queer radical
• Modern painterly

movements, M. Lamar’s performances are anchored by a stunning counter tenor that both shimmers and thunders.

Though intellectually rigorous and physically visceral, M. Lamar’s demeanor and dialogue with audiences make his events always accessible… indeed inviting… even solicitous… and nearly undeniable.

Violent and vociferous but never histrionic, M. Lamar is neither torchsinger nor vamp, but rather a antispectacle hurling illuminating shadows across the sexes, sales, slaveries and subjectivities endemic to American™ Empire.

M. LAMAR
is available for bookings of:

• SPECULUM ORUM: SHACKLED TO THE DEAD
  Requiem for voice and piano first performed at Cathedral of Saint John the Divine.
• NEGRO ANTICHRIST
  A music narrative tracing one man’s jounrny from capture to captivity to freedom then death and resurrection. First performed at Abrons Art Center.
• TREE OF BLOOD
  A lamaentation on the lynching tree as site of both violence and sexualized death as well as a site of hope renewal and sacifice. This piece has been in development for several years and has had showing at the Center for Performnace Research and Theater 80 in New York.



Budget and technical requirements available upon request.

CRITICAL THEORY“In the Belly of the Ship”BY BRANDON PETER MASTERMAN“M. Lamar’s musical performances posses an otherworldly quality, a dark opulence that is simultaneously stunning in its beauty as well as tortured in its despair. Lamar is a countertenor, pianist, and composer whose work intervenes directly with discourses of race in America.”