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Mysterious Goodbye Horses Singer Q Lazzarus Dead At 59

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Sad news for the music world. Q Lazzarus is dead at the age of just 59. We may know precious little about the mysterious singer, but she gave the world a moody masterpiece in Goodbye Horses — and for that we’ll forever be in her debt.

Q, whose real name was Diane Luckey, was born in Neptune, New Jersey and lived in New York City in the ’80s, where she fronted the band Q Lazzarus And The Resurrection.

However, it was her day job driving a taxi that led her to success. The story goes she was playing her own demo — she hadn’t been signed to a record deal — in her cab, and one customer in particularly was taken with the music.

That passenger was director Jonathan Demme. The music aficionado fell in love with her sound. He put one of her songs in Something Wild and then another in Married To The Mob and then again in his Best Picture winner Silence of the Lambs.

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