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Original Title: TIL Q Lazzarus, singer of Goodbye Horses, was unknown when the song appeared in Silence of the Lambs. Labels had rejected her due to her dreads, so she drove a cab. Once, she picked up “Lambs” director Jonathan Demme, and played him her demo. He responded “Oh my God, what is this and who are you?”