"Born in Brooklyn, New York in 1947, Palestine began by singing sacred Jewish music and studying accordion and piano.
At the age of 12 he started playing backup conga and bongo drums for Allen Ginsberg, Gregory Corso, Kenneth Anger, and Tiny Tim.
From 1962–69 Palestine was carillonneur for the Saint Thomas Episcopal Church in Manhattan,eventually creating a piece that consisted of 1,500 15 minute performances"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlemagne_Palestine
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2018/feb/01/charlemagne-palestine-18000-stuffed-animals-ccornuuoorphanossccopiaeeaanorphansshhornoffplentyyyhttps://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2018/feb/01/charlemagne-palestine-18000-stuffed-animals-ccornuuoorphanossccopiaeeaanorphansshhornoffplentyyy
“My mother, when I was around 10 or 11, thought I was too old to have these kinds of toys,” Palestine recalled ruefully. “
One day when I was at school, she took all my animals and threw them out. I came back and I no longer had any of my friends – my cuddly friends.”
These days Palestine has all of his cuddly friends. “I call them divinities,”
Palestine says. “But I use it as a sacred secular term, meaning I believe it’s sacred – it really is important to me and gives me all the reinforcement that sacred things can without it being dogmatic.
My religion has no name.
Maybe ‘Meshugahland’. You know the word ‘meshugah’? It means crazy.
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