According to reports, Q Lazzarus died on July 19, 2022. The revelation was made in an obituary posted on the Jackson Funeral Home website. The cause of her death is still unknown. According to an obituary released by Jackson Funeral Home, she was working on a feature documentary about her life and music with filmmaker and friend Eva Aridjis. According to her obituary, the documentary will be released in 2023, along with an album of songs that helped her achieve success in the profession.
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Q Lazzarus’ journey into the music business
Q Lazzarus’ date of birth is currently unavailable. Some sources suggest she was born in 1960, while others claim she was born in 1965. It is unclear how she got started in music or what she did before that. She founded her band Q Lazzarus and the Resurrection. During the 1980s, she made music while simultaneously working as a taxi driver to cover her monthly expenses. Her backing singers were Gloriana Galicia, Janice Bernstein and Mark Barrett, as well as songwriter William Garvey. In 1985, Galicia said Lazzarus worked as a housekeeper and au pair for a prominent businessman named Swan.
However, the band recorded their vocals at Swan’s house, and Lazzarus was working on other projects at the time. She was first rejected by record companies because of her dreadlocks, also known as Diane Luckey. But she got lucky when director Jonathan Demme got into her taxi. Luckey inquired about Demme’s musical interests and presented her demo tape, which Demme liked. Demme used her song Candle Goes Away in the 1986 action comedy romantic film Something Wild. The film and album received favorable critical reviews and was a box office triumph.
Other works
Lazaarus rose to fame with her song Goodbye Horses, which was used on the soundtracks of the 1988 crime comedy Married to the Mob and the 1991 psychological horror film The Silence of the Lambs. Goodbye Horses has also been featured in various films, television programs and video games. Luckey also appeared in Demme’s 1993 justice drama Philadelphia, singing a rendition of Talking Heads’ Heaven. The film, which was made on a budget of $26 million, grossed approximately $206 million at the box office and starred Tom Hanks, Denzel Washington, Jason Robards, Mary Steenburgen, Antonio Banderas and Joanne Woodward.
Luckey was never found when Q Lazzarus and Resurrection broke up in 1996. After years of speculation, Dazed discovered her in 2019 and revealed that she quit music and now works as a bus driver in Staten Island.
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