Mike Geier (born March 12, 1965), known as Big Mike Geier is a singer, entertainer, and leader of the band Kingsized, which is based in Atlanta, Georgia, U.S. Performing as the clown-costumed Puddles Pity Party, Geier has appeared in YouTube videos since 2013, including some with Scott Bradlee's Postmodern Jukebox.
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Biography
Geier was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, the fifth of seven children of "Big Oz" and Peg Geier. He says that he "grew up in a houseful of giants", with his two brothers and four sisters all growing to at least 6 ft 0 in (1.83 m) in height. Geier is 6 ft 8 in (2.03 m) tall. He grew up in Richmond, Virginia. Living in, and based in Atlanta since 1995, Geier is married to his business partner Shannon Newton.
In the early 1990s, Geier led a touring "Swing Noir" band, The Useless Playboys, before settling in Atlanta in 1995.
As Puddles Pity Party, Geier wears a distinctive whiteface clown costume. He has a baritone singing voice, and sings mostly covers of songs. Puddles has a depressed persona and refrains from speaking on stage or giving interviews.. Puddles Pity Party performed in Aqua Teen Hunger Force's 2010 tour.
In 2011, Geier appeared regularly at the Manderley Bar in New York's immersive theater show Sleep No More. In 2012, he moved to Seattle to appear in a European-style vaudevillian cabaret, Teatro ZinZanni. In 2013, he opened for Eels during their U.S. and European tour.
In October 2013, Geier recorded a cover of Lorde's "Royals" with Postmodern Jukebox on YouTube. As of September 2017, the video had received over 21.5 million hits. Lorde declared his cover to be her favorite cover of "Royals". Puddles has collaborated with Bradlee on YouTube several times since.
Since 2014, Geier has toured the world, playing concerts in the United States, United Kingdom, Belgium, and Australia. On September 27, 2014, his live performance of Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah", at the Regency Lodge Ballroom in San Francisco, was filmed by director Gary Yost and was later described by HuffPost as "A Strange Kind Of Beautiful". As of September 2017 the video on YouTube had received over 4.3 million views.
In 2017, Geier, as Puddles, participated in season 12 of the reality series America's Got Talent. He advanced from auditions all the way to the live quarterfinals at the Dolby Theatre, where he performed his version of "Royals" and received an "X" from Simon Cowell. He was ultimately eliminated the following night.
In October 2017, Geier, as Puddles, made an appearance in a Cartoon Network ad promoting a new episode of Teen Titans Go! and OK K.O.! Let's Be Heroes.
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Discography
- 2015, Top Hat on Fleek, Scott Bradlee's Postmodern Jukebox: "Mad World" and "Viva la Vida"
- 2016, The Essentials, Scott Bradlee's Postmodern Jukebox: "Royals"
References
External links
- Official website
- PuddlesPityParty's channel on YouTube
Source of the article : Wikipedia
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