Born:12-04 (sagittarius) in Richmond VA. Rad childhood included sports & piano. got into theater (often professionally) around 9 & stayed through teens, then started bouncing around the mid-atlantic. Was asked to leave high school. Left theater as well for punk & rock & roll & landed for good in NYC around 17 to "finally get laid alot." became a photographer (professionally) & a poet & model. In & out of bands thru the 80s. Briefly went to Europe. Became very political during the nightmare Reagan years. (alot of street demonstrations, volunteer work, ect...) Learned of GMHC & did tabling in the streets with them in the early days. saw the Larry Kramer (a hero) speech that sparked Act-Up & stayed through its first 8 years... lots of work, getting arrested, and losing most of an opera voice screaming on demos. many demos with Ilgo, Queer Nation, Cures not Wars, ect. as well. Filmed for aids community television and did tech/camera work for Act- Up Live broadcasts for a few years. concurrently produced "Rosa Melita's Raw Footage" for 3 years on cable tv in NYC. went to Hunter college (NYC) for music for a while. co-founded Trip Records with Tom Davis around 1993. put out a few records (& 2 videos), and also did a&r, production , engineering and art direction (for self & other artists). left Trip around 1996, remarried, and retired from activism after 15 years. (feel funny about that lately. ) currently: doing music, writing solo projects (though i always like to work with others.) continues consulting work for different artists & projects. Current statement: making money, or being an "artist" is ever-so-good for the self-important, for the ego. Few pop records have changed the world, nor did all that worry about looking good solve anything real. "We must march my darlings" and be prepared to do more, far more than that. Long since has push come to shove. When you die, and you will, there is no time to regret what you did not do, what you did not contribute. |
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