Blixa Bargeld

Birth Name:

Christian Emmerich

Birth Place:

Berlin, Germany

Profession

Soundtrack, Actor, Music department

Won a Bronze Lion at Cannes Advertising Festival in 2004
Originally started using nontraditional instruments in his music because he couldn't afford anything else
Would experiment with tape recorders when he was 13, putting a pickup on kitchen equipment and recording it on tape
The first album he ever bought was a Pink Floyd album, but he quickly moved on to German progressive rock
Quote: "I didn't start being a musician to provoke anything, or to be intentionally different․"
Quote: "The archeological thing is how much of the 23-year-old Blixa is still in the 51-year-old Blixa, how many of the ideals that I was following, or the goals or artistic targets I was aiming at, are still there․"
Quote: "The humor in Neubauten is usually completely forgotten․ After all, we are Germans--we are not supposed to be funny․"
Was the lead vocalist of Einstürzende Neubauten, which he formed in 1980
Known as a composer, author, actor, singer, musician, performer and lecturer on the interpretive arts
Was the guitarist for Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds from 1984 to 2003

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