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Ich habe einen Traum: "Meine Stimme ist für 48 Millionen Dollar versichert"



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I have a dream: "My voice is insured for $ 48 million"

BY CHRISTOPH DALLACH
ZEITMAGAZIN NO. 38/2019
SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

ADAM LAMBERT
37, is an American singer and actor. He became known in 2009 by his participation in the US casting show American Idol , where he finished second. As a solo artist, he sold more than five million phonograms. For seven years he is also on tour as a singer with the rock band Queen. His new solo album Velvet is due to be released this fall.

As a child, I lived out my daydreams and disguised myself as often as possible. I loved to play different roles. Halloween was therefore a special holiday for me. Most of all, I turned into a vampire: lots of make-up, contact lenses and fangs - done.

My nocturnal dreams are pretty crazy. Recently, I dreamed of an apparently famous pop singer, with whom I was in the studio to record a song. She had her purse on the floor, and I secretly urinated in there - no idea why. I did not realize what I was doing. When it dawned on me, I got a terrible fright. So, like a madman, I cleaned her bag, hoping she would not notice. Then I woke up.

I used to think that my future is in the theater. Music was more of my plan B. As an actor in musicals I was already established professionally and could live on it well. But at some point I lost the joy of it. I was 26, and it got increasingly annoying to follow the stage directions: Stand here! Stand there! Put on this and that. I felt like I was a robot in an amusement park. Basically, I have a problem with authorities. At the time, I increasingly began to take care of my own music.

I applied to the casting show American Idol . To sing there, I quit my job in the theater. That was quite a risk, because I had nothing in my hand but the vague hope that the jurors could like me. I had all that in mind when I sang the queen song Bohemian Rhapsody on the show. The song is quite difficult to sing. But I was lucky.

Meanwhile, my voice is insured for $ 48 million, because losing it would be a nightmare.

The first years of my career were overshadowed by this whole discussion about being a homosexual. The media was more interested in being gay than in my music. For a while, it was a nightmare I had yet to learn to deal with. For me, my sexuality was not a big topic, I had my coming out at 18 and have never made a secret of it. That's why the whirlwind was so irritating for me. On the other hand, there were hardly any open-hearted musicians in mainstream pop at the time. At that time, ten years ago, the company was probably not ready yet. But in recent years, more and more people in public have become known for their homosexuality: actors, athletes, even politicians. This is really a dream come true.