<input> Encounter with Charlemagne Palestine

"A total artist and prophet of "maximalism", Charlemagne Palestine is an inimitable pianist-performer-chamane who never separates from his stuffed animals and scarves, symbolic embodiments of oppressed peoples and victims of the Holocaust. Born Charles Martin in Brooklyn in 1947, his parents were Ukrainian Jews from Odessa who fled to the United States to escape the genocide. From the age of eight, he sang in his synagogue choir, which steered him towards a spiritual approach to music. (...) Glory be to Charlemagne Palestine's "Sacred Mess!"

Julien Bécourt

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