Har Mar Superstar

Wow. We mean WOW. We’ve never seen any­thing like this before. Where did he get those moves? That style? Those sequins? That… beer belly?? What planet did this guy come from? He’s a totally unex­pected sex symbol.

We saw Har Mar Superstar on Jimmy Fallon a cou­ple months back and we haven’t been the same since. He is an amaz­ing performer–dancing with an impres­sive amount of energy, even pulling off head­stands while singing. His cos­tumes are eccen­tri­cally stylish—often dur­ing his per­for­mances he strips them off until he is down to his flashy underwear.

Surprisingly, this has been going on for a quite a while. Musician Sean Tillmann has been mak­ing dancey R&B music under the stage name Har Mar Superstar for ten years. He has been fea­tured on Jimmy Kimmel and Sharon Osborne over the years, and his last album The Handler was crit­i­cally acclaimed. How did we miss him?

Tillmann, a Los Angeles-based singer, song­writer and pro­ducer, cre­ated the Har Mar per­sona as “a reac­tion to bor­ing indie rock and how peo­ple were tak­ing them­selves way too seri­ously.” As a song­writer, Tillmann has writ­ten songs for pop artists such as The Cheetah Girls, Jennifer Lopez and Kelly Osbourne. Some of the Har Mar songs started out as songs for these artists, but “it took [me] a minute to real­ize that the ini­tial ideas worked per­fectly as Har Mar Superstar songs.”

In Tillmann’s words, the Har Mar Superstar act is “about me going out and get­ting as sweaty as pos­si­ble, mov­ing around as much as I can, and in a sense glam­our­ing every­body for the night and mak­ing them feel bet­ter about them­selves.” Har Mar, we thank you for that. We love it.

Check out his lat­est album, Dark Touches.

Katie Tyznik. HighStreet.Cincinnati