Blag Dahlia

Infobox musical artist
Name = Blag Dahlia


Img_capt = Cafaro (left) with Nick Oliveri in 2006
Background =
Birth_name = Paul Cafaro
Alias = Blag Dahlia
Blag Jesus
Blag The Ripper
Earl Lee Grace
Julius Seizure
Blag Stallion
Born = May 8 1966
Died =
Occupation = Musician
Producer
Author
Instrument = Vocals

Genre = Punk
Label = SubPop
Sympathy For The Record Industry
Epitaph
Associated_acts = Dwarves
The Uncontrollable
Suburban Nightmare
Earl Lee grace
Penetration Moon
Blag Dahila

Paul Cafaro (born May 8 1966) [ [http://www.myspace.com/blagdahlia Blag Dahlia MySpace] ] , better known as Blag Dahlia, is an American musician [ [http://www.hollywood.com/celebrity/Paul_Cafaro/3133953 Hollywood.com] ] , producer, and author.

Biography

Cafaro is a native of Highland Park, Illinois, and is most well-known as the front-man of Dwarves, a punk rock band. [ [http://www.markprindle.com/dahlia.htm The Sinful Dwarf] ] With the Dwarves he has written and produced 10 full length records over a span of 24 years all while packing the largest penis in show business. He has authored two novels, "Armed To The Teeth With Lipstick" (1998) and "Nina" (2006). [ [http://www.suburbanstain.com/dwblshsoprbo.html Suburban Stain] ] Cafaro's subject matter is famously controversial. His novels deal with promiscuous teenagers, whorehouses, graphic violence, and other deviant behavior. He has produced albums by Mondo Generator [ [http://www.mondogenerator.com/discog_nick.php Mondo Generator homepage] ] , The Dwarves [ [http://www.cduniverse.com/productinfo.asp?pid=1060624&BAB=E CDuniverse Production Credit] ] , F.Y.P, John Cougar Concentration Camp and the Godawfuls [ [http://www.suburbanstain.com/dwblshsoprbo.html Dahlia production credits] ] .

Cafaro also released solo material as Blag Dahlia and under one of his other aliases, Earl Lee Grace. "Blackgrass" (1995), a 13-song LP of bluegrass songs [ [http://www.markprindle.com/dahlia-i.htm Blag Dahlia interview] ] , was released on the Sympathy for the Record Industry label using a backing band of real bluegrass musicians.Cafaro also started an acoustic duo with Nick Oliveri named The Uncontrollable.

Controversy

In 1993 Dahlia was implicated in a hoax concerning the death of Dwarves guitarist HeWhoCannotBeNamed. Numerous incidents concerning onstage nudity and violence have dogged the artist since the band's inception. Dahlia had his throat slashed in London, Ont. 1994, his head split open in Riverside, CA 1996 and most famously was involved in an altercation with Josh Homme, singer from Queens of the Stone Age, who attacked him in November 2004 at the Dragonfly Nightclub with a beer bottle in retaliation for being insulted in the Dwarves song 'Massacre' from the album The Dwarves Must Die. Due to fears of a lawsuit that never materialized Homme's handlers disseminated a glut of misinformation that was dutifully reported in media organs like Rolling Stone, but the actual facts of the case remain unclear. Dahlia himself is not actually quoted in any mainstream publications on the subject.

Films

Two songs recorded by Earl Lee Grace were on the soundtrack to A.W. Feidler's short film, "The Job" (1997). [ [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0191214/soundtrack IMDb] ] In 2001, Dahlia performed "Zine-O-Phobia Music" for the Ghost World soundtrack. [ [http://www.hollywood.com/movie/Ghost_World/415383 Ghost World credits] ] Blag appears in a Mock Snuff film entitled " Misogynist: The Movie" (2003) The Dwarves song "Massacre", which Dahlia wrote, was on the soundtrack to the 2006 film "Hostel". [ [http://www.hollywood.com/movie/Hostel/2436240 Hostel credits] ] He also narrated the 2007 Gotham Award-nominated independent film Loren Cass. Dahlia's music as well as the Dwarves have appeared in a multitude of television shows and movies including Tony Hawk's All Star Huck Jame, Hostel, Viva la Bam, Me Myself and Irene, Home James and dozens of others.

References

External links

* [http://www.pluginmusic.com/features.php?sort=blagdahlia Nothing But Hits with Blag Dahlia] , column for PlugInMusic.com