Biography
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Hello,
My name is Norman Palm. I grew up in a small town in the north where i learned how to sing and play instruments when i was little. When I finished school my family decided to send me to artschool
because I was so good at painting and drawing. I wanted to
become a lawyer but I followed their advice and went to Berlin.
Artschools are relaxed places, so I had enough time to write more songs and play music. Eventually I moved to Paris, where I found out that there was a little microphone inside my laptop which worked perfectly to record my songs. When I came back to Berlin I had a lot of songs recorded and a lot of pictures in my head. I wanted to share these pictures with the listeners of my songs, so I designed a little book which goes along with my record. Every song is illustrated in
one chapter.
On stage I felt that people were staring at me a bit too much, so I set up a projection and let the pages of the book flip while I performed
the songs live. In Berlin people were clapping a lot, so I was invited to take my show to other cities and other countries where people liked it, too.
I was invited to play at art galleries and cultural festivals, took cool pictures of myself, sold a song to MTV and even gave interviews talking about my work. Radio stations started to play my songs.
My first single was called “Boys and Girls”: Cover versions of “Girls Just Wanna Have Fun” and “Boys Don’t Cry”. People seemed to like it, I sold all the copies. The next single was called Falling. It’s a nice pop song of mine.
These days I split my time between Berlin and Mexico City and the next project will be my first album. It comes out in October together with that 200pages art book I’ve been working on.
Keep in touch!
Norman