It is a sad day for alternative rock musicians and fans of the band Taking Back Sunday, as Lazzara was the singer/ front man of this world renowned band. Due to liver failure, a dark cloud reigns upon his family, friends, and fans.
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| Lazzara Swings his Microphone on stage during a show on the Projekt Revolution tour. Quite the ball of energy.(http://www.zimbio.com/pictures/RnGnCkH-dsj/2007+Projekt+Revolution+Tour/R1gBTuGrZp3/Adam+Lazzara) |
Lazzara took his last footsteps from Detroit gravel on to Taking Back Sunday’s tour bus. The band played a spectacular show at St. Andrew’s Hall. He then laid down in his bed on the band’s tour bus. When the band woke up in Chicago, Lazzara didn’t.
This singer was a heavy drinker. Many performers who are, that are offered free alcohol by the venues they’replaying at are. However, Lazzara drank too much on and off the tour bus.
Born in Sheffield, Alabama, Lazzara was the son of Christian parents. His family moved to North Carolina when he was a teenager. It was then that he started playing bass guitar. He got in touch with the band Taking back Sunday and moved to Long Island, New,York to play bass for them. When vocalist Antonio Longo parted ways with the band, guitarist Eddie Reyes convinced Lazzara to become their lead vocalist and songwriter (TBS Union).
Lazzara wrote and produced five full records with Taking Back Sunday and is one of the three permanent members since the band’s first full record, “Tell All Your Friends”.
After “Tell All Your Friends,” Taking Back Sunday went through plenty of controversy and member replacing. Despite the feuding, Lazzara was the glue that held the band together. Taking back Sunday then came out with four more long playing disks titled, “Where Your Want to be,” “Louder Now,” “New Again,” and self titled, “Taking Back Sunday” in chronological order.
On Valentine’s day 2009, Lazzara proposed to Eisley guitarist and singer, Chantelle Dupree. This relationship only lasted for one year until the two amicably parted ways. Lazzara then married his now widow, Misha. The couple was very happy and resided in Tyler, Texas, with their son, Keaton Ari Danger Lazzara.
Lazzara will be much missed by his family. His parents, his brother Nathan, son Keaton, and mostly wife Misha. Lazzara had a tattoo on his forearm of a heart with banners across it spelling out, “Ain’t no woman like the one I got.” Misha will always have her husband in her heart, but never again will she have him in her arms (TBS Union).
As a live performer, Lazzara had many tactics he was famous for. One of them was swinging his microphone. He likes to get a lot of slack in his mic and swing it around in a rotating, circular motion. He would also spin it around his neck (Alternative Press). He once swing it so far in diameter, that he hit bass player, Mathew Rubano in the head, hospitalizing him after finishing the show.
Also famous for his energetic and acrobatic abilities such as climbing the rafters at the 2003 Van’s Warped Tour and hanging from the rafters by his legs upside down.
A firm believer in charity, Lazzara gave a lot of his hard earned money back to organizations such as the “Stop Global Warming Organization.” He had a good heart and a good soul.
Being a huge part of the music world, Lazzara and the rest of Taking Back Sunday toured with fantastically popular bands such as Rise Against, Envy On The Coast, Underoath, Jimmy Eat World, Red Jumpsuit Apparatus, Thursday and several others. Lazzara made so many people happy. Now all those fans have left is notes and keys in memory of what they once shared with the existing world of music.
A firm believer in real life experiences, Lazzara would tell fans to stop taking pictures and videos of him because they are “behind screens all day”, such as computers and cell phones, and that when he is talking to a fan, they should embrace the moment instead of taking a picture or video of their experience.
A lover and fighter of anything important and relevant to music or art, Lazzara was an activist at best.
A phenomenal musician, hunsband, father, friend, idol, and a true man. He will be missed by many and loved by all. Those who share the music, those who share the same views of charity and giving back to the community, and those who know that life isn’t just about doing what you want, but what s also good for others, will always miss Mr. Adam Burbank Lazzara.
Rest in peace Mr. Lazzara. And always keep on Keepn’ on.
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