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Pamela Z

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Also known as Pamela Ruth Brooks

American composer, performer, and media artist

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Vinony's link graph records 78 inbound references to Pamela Z, and connects out to University of Colorado Boulder, Whitney Museum of American Art and San Francisco.

It is catalogued under topics including 1956 births, 20th-century African-American women singers and 20th-century American classical composers.

Vinony links it to 4 Wikipedia language editions.

Person · Open Library

Works
2

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  • The Salisbury Chapter-house and its Old Testament Cycle
  • Early Gothic Saint-Denis

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Group
Origin
United States
Active from
1969
blues rockboogie rockclassic rockhard rockrocksouthern rock

Discography

Official siteDiscogsStream

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
3,345
Total plays
15,851

Tags

experimentalAvant-Gardecomposerdronevoice is an instrument

Raised in the Denver area, the African American Z received her bachelor's degree in music from the University of Colorado at Boulder, where she studied classical voice. After performing throughout Colorado as a rock musician under the name Pam Brooks, in 1984 she moved to San Francisco, where her experiments with live digital delay vocal processing began leading her down a different artistic path, and she changed her name to Pamela Z. In performance today <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Pamel

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Wikidata facts

Instance of
human
Given name
Pamela
Gender
female
Citizenship
United States
Place of birth
Buffalo
Occupation
singer
Educated at
University of Colorado Boulder
Award
Guggenheim Fellowship
Genre
electronic music
Instrument
voice
Official website
www.pamelaz.com
Image
Pamela Z (cropped).jpg
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Commons category
Pamela Z
date of birth
1956-01-01
on focus list of Wikimedia project
Black Lunch Table
Sources (2)

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Available in 4 languages

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University of Colorado Boulder
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Whitney Museum of American Art
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Boulder
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John Cage
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chamber music
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Museum of Modern Art
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Oxford University Press
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Categories

1956 births20th-century African-American women singers20th-century American classical composers20th-century American singers20th-century American women composers20th-century American women singers21st-century African-American women singers21st-century American classical composers21st-century American singers21st-century American women composers21st-century American women singersAfrican-American classical composersAfrican-American women classical composersAmerican avant-garde musiciansAmerican contemporary classical composersAmerican contemporary classical music performersAmerican electronic composersAmerican women classical composersAmerican women in electronic musicAvant-garde composersAvant-garde singersClassical musicians from New York (state)Electroacoustic music composersLiving people