Pal Shazar
Pal Shazar is an American singer/songwriter. She was a founding member of the 1980s new wave pop group Slow Children, and married one of the band's producers, Jules Shear, in the late 1980s. Career. Slow Children released two albums on the RCA Records label, the self titled debut in 1981 and "Mad About Town" in 1982. Shazar released several CDs, starting in the 1990s, on various labels. Shazar co-wrote several songs with Matthew Sweet for his album "Inside" (1986), and wrote lyrics for Sara Lee for her album "Make It Beautiful" (2000). Shazar is also  a painter; an example of her work is featured on the cover of The Waterboys' "Dream Harder" album, and she has self-published a book of lyrics and art, "Pal Shazar: The Illustrated Lyrics", in 2008. Shazar was featured on the cover of photographer Linda Troeller's book "The Erotic Lives of Women", which included photos that were also used for the graphics of Shazar's 1997 album "Woman Under the Influence". In May 2011, Shazar's first novel, "Janitor," was self-published. It is an erotic story as told by the title character. The man's point of view  is also expressed in the accompanying CD of 13 songs that illustrate every chapter. An excerpt from the book was previously published in a "Penthouse" feature "Women's Erotic Fiction". In 2013, she self-published "Pal Shazar's La Strada", a collection of 42 paintings, inspired by the 1954 film of the same name. In January 2013, Shazar and her husband, singer/songwriter Jules Shear, released "Shear Shazar". Their follow-up EP was released in 2014.