Master Fatman

Morten Mabunda Lindberg(néLindberg; 23 September 1965 – 26 March 2019), also known as "Master Fatman", was aDanishmedia personality. He was also a comedian, taxi driver, performer, disc jockey, host, musician, singer, film maker, actor, and benefactor. In 2010, Lindberg married Herminia Mabunda fromMozambiqueand adopted her surname.He had five children.
Master Fatman died unexpectedly on March 26, 2019. He was 53.
Lindberg was involved with undergroundperformance artand entertainment for many years. His stage name "Master Fatman" was first chosen during a performance of his in March 1987, attempting to channel and incarnateLiberace's soul into his body. Lindberg used other stage names andalter egos, but Master Fatman eventually emerged as the most popular one.
Lindberg had a very broad range of interests and engaged with magazine writing, publishing and editing, theatre, film, tv, radio and music, usually with a good deal of humour and subtle irony, but also out of genuine artistic interest and curiosity, and an urge for creative expression.In the early 1990s, he took up an interest in acting and film making, and among his first engagements was the lowbudget short filmGayniggers from Outer Space, which later obtained a cult status. This was the first and only time Lindberg tried his hands with film directing, but he continued his film interest with acting roles and writing.In 1993, after travelling in India, Lindberg started the political party "Det Kosmiske Parti" (The Cosmic Party) and participated in the Copenhagen municipal elections as the love preaching self-styled guruTykmesterenthe following year, another stage name of his. Although close to being elected, he didn't make it, but kept evolving the cosmic guru role and was associated with it ever after. Through the later half of the 1990s and early 2000s, he edited and wrote for the underground magazine "Magasin Schäfer" along with Danish writers Martin Kongstad and Henrik List.
Master Fatman participated in the DanishEurovision Song Contestof 1995 with his song "Jordisk Kærlighed" (Earthly Love), but didn't win. In 2006, also as Master Fatman, he competed in the third season of the dance contestVild med dansonTV2, wearing several eye-catching costumes, including anElvisoutfit.
Lindberg travelled widely to experience the cultures of the world and he developed particularly strong ties toIndia,Brazil,Mozambique(and Africa in general), andFrance. In Brazil, where he lived for extended periods, his social indignation and concern was aroused after experiencing the Brazilianfavelasand seeing how rough life was there. As a response, Lindberg eventually set up and sponsored orphanages and humanitarian child care projects in Brazil, among other engagements.With his African wife, Lindberg owned a second home in Mozambique.
As a musician, Lindberg participated in numerous projects andbands, both as an instrumentalist and a singer. Projects and bands that he has been in include: Master Fatman and his Freedom Fighters, Master Fatman Guru Orchestra, Lindberg Hemmer Foundation, Nature TM and Per Kristensen Band. Most of the bands that Lindberg was involved with were out of the mainstream and only modestly popular.
Lindberg had a very broad range of musical interests, and was an avidjazzlover, in particular the BrazilianBossa-style jazz, and he ran his own jazz program for several years on theDanish Radio(DR). He was also a frequent host at various Danish jazz events and shows.
Food, especially vegetarian food, had Lindberg's interest throughout most of his life. He was himself avegetariansince his early twenties, and he hosted several TV programs about food and cooking for the Danish National TV DR.In his radio show Croque Monsieur atRadio24syvhe explored and mediated his love for the French cuisine, in particular his love for cheese and cakes, and followed it up with a cookbook in 2017.
Lindberg's image as an obese man was entirely deliberate and started out as a counterreaction to all the weight loss diets and popular ideals of being slim in the 1980s. He increased his cake consumption, drank cream and ate raw bacon as part of stage acts. Soon, a significant weight gain was achieved and it became part of his public image. Lindberg sought happiness and cosmic love, not material virtues, and to him, being slim simply didn't look good for men.
Some of Lindberg's music has only been released on cassettes or in very limited numbers (records and cds) in underground circles. The list of substantial albums and widely circulated releases includes:
As Master Fatman, Lindberg also released a number of singles, covering disco hits from the 1970s.