Baby Dayliner

Baby Dayliner created his own musical niche in New York's alternative rock and rap scenes in the early to mid-2000s. His offbeat, cabaret-lounge vocal style has elicited comparisons extending from Frank Sinatra to David Bowie to Ian Curtis, and yet his musical influences include an even stranger gamut: '80s synth pop, underground rap, folk songwriting, '50s rockabilly and pop, and Japanese kabuki theater music. Juxtaposing these normally incongruous genres, he obtained a small but varied following. Dayliner, aka Ethan Marunas, was born in the N.Y.C. borough of Manhattan. He w...