Q Lazzarus, elusive singer of “Goodbye Horses,” has died
thefader.comQ Lazzarus, the singer behind "Goodbye Horses" who disappeared from the music industry at the peak of her career, has died. Her passing on July 19 was announced in an obituary posted last month and was first reported on August 18 by Stereogum.
The story of Q Lazzarus began in the hometown of New York City, where the musician was born Diane Luckey on December 12, 1960.
While working as a cab driver, Luckey picked up the film director Jonathan Demme and played a demo tape for her band Q Lazzarus & The Resurrection.
It was a beginning of a creative partnership that would span four Demme films beginning with 1986's Something Wild which used the Q Lazzarus song "Candle Goes Away." It was their second collaboration on 1989's The Silence of the Lambs that would lead to the peak of Lazzarus's public prominence, and one of the late 20th century cinema's most iconic needle drops.
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