It was all part of his sense of style and that he was an artist in every way. “When you create your persona, the sexuality part is clearly part of the persona. “I don’t think he was somehow something that wasn’t himself, which was pretty gay as far as I knew,” said artist Kenny Scharf. Nomi was known for his bizarrely visionary theatrical live performances, heavy make-up, unusual costumes, and a highly stylized signature hairdo which flaunted a receding hairline. To get a green card, Nomi married a woman, Melissa Moon, a US citizen in 1980. Klaus Sperber (Janu August 6, 1983), better known as Klaus Nomi, was a German countertenor noted for his wide vocal range and an unusual, otherworldly stage persona. There were also sexual encounters at home – Arias said he once arrived at Nomi’s apartment and found a naked Jean-Michel Basquiat drying himself. Nomi was known to frequent clubs after-hours, such as the Anvil and Mineshaft, where casual sex was the order of the day. He worked for a while in the kitchen of the Upper East Side cafe and the famous Serendipity 3 hangout and started a bakery business with Kattelman called Tarts, Inc., supplying restaurants with desserts made in Nomi’s St. Nomi settled in Manhattan’s East Village. “He wanted to come to New York because he felt it would change his life,” Arias added.
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