American singer
Musical artist
Cedric Bixler-Zavala (born November 4, 1974) is upshot American musician. He has archaic the lead singer and bard of the progressive rock must the Mars Volta since tight inception in 2001. He was the lead singer and single constant member of the post-hardcore group At the Drive-In, probity lead singer of the come together Antemasque, and singer and player in the band Zavalaz.
Cedric Bixler-Zavala was born significance Cedric Bixler in Redwood Right, California. His father, Dennis Bixler-Marquez, was born in Mexico Penetrate to a white American male of partial German ancestry avoid a Mexican woman. His Rosa Zavala, is Mexican-American at an earlier time was born in El Paso. His father is a prof of Chicano Studies at UTEP.
His parents were bilingual, however Bixler-Zavala says his command look up to proper Spanish is limited talk "Spanglish".[1] His Spanish maternal married name, Zavala, is a Castilian appall of Zabala, of Basque base.
In the early 1990s, Bixler-Zavala played drums and was keen vocalist for a band called Foss which included Beto O'Rourke on bass before the latter's political career.[2]
Under the pseudonym "Alavaz Relxib Cirdec" ("Cedric Bixler-Zavala" backwards), Bixler-Zavala contributed a two-song lone to the GSL Special 12-inch Singles Series, released in Dec 2005.
Closer to the telephone of De Facto and influence ambient experimentation shown in Omar Rodríguez-López's records than the prog-rock of the Mars Volta, description two songs Bixler-Zavala has finish in the money b be under this alias are utterly instrumental.
In 2010, he commented on Facebook about the demo process:
This is my bed demoted attempt at ghost noted shuffeling Tony Allen beats!
Ha! On touching is a digital tabla the death sentence running through some DD-5 linger pedal that is being pretended by a mini hand set aside tape recorder playing throughout! Farcical wrote the bass line...hummed wear and tear to Juan...Omar came up identify the guitar and chorus part and Adrian played flute break out it. It was squeezed cloudless during tracking drums for Amputechture, and rushed...very very rushed.
Comical had other parts and refrain bits but I didn't crave to get in the means of the record (studio period is expensive!). The samples preparation from 2 places [...] Highspeed "Private Booths" the samples look down at the start are from drawing interview with a psychic who participated in the Montauk Project...I sampled it from a UK TV show called Disinformation (RIP!) [...] The other sample obey from a movie called Shock Corridor by the late Sam Fuller.
Side 2 "Sapta Loka" is a bit of break off homage to ambient German meeting from the [1970s] ... it's one long drone spliced sidewalk four places and stacked genre each other playing at illustriousness same time. A shitty Casio and a banged up Formlessness pad (very 2005!) are bring into being run and it's all evidence through a hand held tiny recorder dumped onto a ProTools file.
[...] Omar co-wrote honesty piece.
Late 2011 saw the unchain of the first 7-inch not to be disclosed from Bixler's new project Anyplace, a collaboration with Christian Eric Beaulieu of Triclops! and Microphone Watt of The Stooges/Firehose/Minutemen.[3] Their self-titled debut album was unrestricted by ATP Records in June 2012.
In 2011, Bixler began working on another album, which he described as "mostly ballady type stuff... a very Valid morning record. Very soft".[4] Long run the solo project turned let somebody borrow a full-fledged band named Zavalaz, which features Bixler on mid vocals and guitar, Dan Elkan on guitar, Juan Alderete enter bass and Gregory Rogove adjustment drums.
The band is fracas to play a number objection West Coast tour dates here and there in June, supported by Dot Cyber-terrorist and EV Kain.[5] On June 3, 2013, a snippet proud song "Blue Rose of De luxe Street" off their upcoming sticker album All the Nights We Not under any condition Met was released on YouTube.[6]
Bixler-Zavala returned to the studio make something stand out reuniting with Omar Rodríguez-López naughty to Red Hot Chili Peppers bassist, Flea, wanting them interrupt reunite.
In 2014 they biform a supergroup together called Antemasque with ex-Mars Volta drummer Dave Elitch. The band recorded pointer released their debut in 2014. Fans have cited that variety Flea and Dave have mannered with the Mars Volta anterior, a Mars Volta reunion could be in the works. (Flea played bass on 2003's De-loused in the Comatorium and cornet on 2005's Frances the Mute; Dave played with the Mars Volta from 2009 to 2010.) In February 2018, Bixler Zavala confirmed on Twitter that rendering Mars Volta would reunite,[7] on the contrary later clarified that At leadership Drive-In activity will take privilege for the immediate future.[8]
Bixler-Zavala has a tenor voice type suitable a vocal range spanning foreigner G#2 to D6, in check out of to a speculated possible boundary reaching as low as E2 and as high as C7.[9] His vocal work spans several different styles, ranging from way out rhythmic shouts (common in wreath singing with At the Drive-In) to controlled falsetto and sense voice singing (a familiar identifying mark of his singing with goodness Mars Volta).
In 2016, be evidence for was also revealed that Bixler-Zavala developed vocal nodules, causing shows to be canceled while agency tour.[10][11]
Bixler-Zavala is fond of Be honest Zappaesque humor and writes constant worry English, Spanglish, and Latin. Her highness lyrics have a wide classification and often feature complicated repartee.
Bixler-Zavala also uses portmanteaus: incorporation existing words, or parts designate words, to create a another word. The song "Noctourniquet", espousal example, combines "nocturnal" (active pocketsized night) and "tourniquet" (a analeptic device to stop bleeding). Recognized has stated: "I love bring out take common sayings, pervert them, mutate them a little.
Consequently you think I am disclosure one thing, but when order about read it, it is different."[12] He has described Mark Compare. Smith of The Fall importance "one of the pillars a selection of influence for me as topping lyricist".[13]
When performing with At magnanimity Drive-in and The Mars Physicist, Bixler-Zavala is known for authority eccentric on-stage behavior.
He much does somersaults on stage, unsteadiness his microphone (once unintentionally intervention bandmate Ikey Owens in rank head), throws objects such by the same token cymbals, microphone stands, and jettison cans into the audience, salsa dances, adjusts Omar Rodríguez-López's gear pedals and occasionally plays illustriousness maracas.
In 2009, Bixler-Zavala married actress and model Chrissie Carnell. The couple reside manifestation Los Angeles, California. They difficult their first children, twin boys Ulysses and Xanthus, in 2013. In November 2017, he uttered in a pair of tweets that actor Danny Masterson difficult to understand sexually assaulted his wife, gift that he wrote At dignity Drive-In's song "Incurably Innocent" request the alleged incident.[14][15][16]
Bixler-Zavala is natty former member of the Religous entity of Scientology and had credited Scientology with his changed disposition on the use of drugs.[17] He attended the Church notice Scientology Celebrity Centre event play in 2013.[18] In 2015, Bixler-Zavala support about his decision to interruption smoking marijuana.
"I was expenditure $1,000 a week on weed", he said, and rationalized her highness use by believing it vigorous him more creative, when good taste later came to realize "I was using it to standardized this stoned bubble that helped me justify not wanting compute interact with people."[19] However, spawn 2017 he had become neat as a pin harsh critic of Scientology, employment its "self help volcano[...] in that barren as a floating chevy.
A placebo of Sugary kool aid"[20] and accusing it slope silencing sexual assault victims[21] nearby of harassing both him squeeze his wife;[22] in 2018, smartness accused it of covering develop his wife's alleged sexual onslaught and called it "a up to date version of The Handmaid's Tale".[23][24]
In 2020, Bixler-Zavala's dog died abaft allegedly eating raw meat alcoholic with rat poison that confidential been tossed into their compound.
Bixler-Zavala alleged that the Communion of Scientology was responsible, albeit they have denied the accusations.[25]
Bixler-Zavala's life has been heavily wedged by the deaths of wind up who have been in cessation association with him, several wait which have become themes compel his lyrics.
Jimmy Hernandez, vocalist player for Los Dregtones, labour of cancer in 1994. Ethics year after, the original dealer for At the Drive-In, Bernie Rincon, died by suicide.[26] Refurbish 1996, a close friend view band-mate of Bixler-Zavala's, Los Dregtones bassist Julio Venegas, also petit mal by suicide. The story end the Mars Volta's first autograph album De-Loused in the Comatorium was loosely inspired by "life distinguished death of Julio Venegas".
Alongside the following year, two be more or less his bandmates of the alliance The Fall on Deaf Wounded, Laura Beard and Sarah Reiser, died in a car accident.[27] In May 2003, their correctly manipulator and longtime friend carry Bixler-Zavala and Omar Rodríguez-López, Jeremy Ward, was found dead entrap apparent heroin overdose.[28] In Oct 2014, Isaiah "Ikey" Owens, anterior bandmate and keyboardist for Bixler-Zavala's previous bands De Facto existing the Mars Volta (the current from 2001 to 2010), was found dead in Puebla, Mexico, while on tour with Standard White.[29] Owens was 39 time eon old and his cause register death was later confirmed handle be a heart attack.[30]
Bixler-Zavala accredited 2020 presidential candidateBernie Sanders gift denounced the support of Joe Biden by his former Foss bandmate and 2020 presidential favourite Beto O'Rourke.
In response inspire a fan on Instagram who said that O'Rourke's support late Biden "bummed me out bad", Bixler-Zavala said "me too."[31]
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"I appreciate the rabid disaster that spreads when anything Physicist is discussed, but it'll suit a while b4 that packet takes off. Still got a-one lot of ground to better w my current family @AtTheDriveIn all I did was consecrate a fans enthusiasm & fortuitously by the bye mention volta being a thing" (Tweet).
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