Get Out! GAY Magazine – Issue 432 August 21, 2019

PHOTO CREDIT RICK DAY NYC
Then how did you get involved in
singing?
I always sang, but I was really ashamed of
my voice. I remember one time when I was
little, my ballet teacher said to me, “Do you
want to be Michael Jackson or a dancer?”
Looking back at it, I should’ve said Michael
Jackson. I didn’t feel comfortable with
my voice, and actually I didn’t really know
that I had a voice. Then while I was in
Birmingham I started writing some poetry. I
was lonely and so far away from everything,
so I started writing some poetry. Then I
decided to put some melodies to it.
Well, I think you have an amazing voice.
I want a broad audience, and I want my
music to be for everybody. Music should
be something that everyone has access
to. It’s the sound of life, and it should be
everybody’s soundtrack. Music helped me
with life. I dream melodies in my sleep. I
wake up in the morning or in the middle
of the night, and I run to the bathroom
and record it. I did that with my single,
“Heart of the Dark,” which was in 2015 on
the U.K. Pop Chart at number 6. I actually
dreamed Michael Jackson came to me
and sang part of that song. I woke up and
recorded it, and the whole song came
out of that. I do that all the time. I always
write out of my dreams, whatever comes to
me. I try to be very open to the universe. I
listen to everything when I walk down the
street. I listen to people, and I keep all
my senses always open and alert. I don’t
even know what I’m connected to, but
whatever is connected to me, I love it. So I
think music should be open and accessible
to everyone, because it comes from a
higher cosmic power. We need to keep
the channel open so everyone can tap into
that. The world is music. Nature is music.
You just need to listen to it. Everything has
a rhythm; everything has a tempo. I lost my
younger sister in 2013 to leukemia. I don’t
know if I’ve dealt with it completely, but I
always talk to her and ask her to come to
me in my dreams. I’m always open for her
to come. So that’s how I want to be with my
music. I want to keep myself open like that
so I can keep writing. I’m actually working
on a new EP, and in the meantime “Drama
Queen” became such a fire starter.
It looks like you had a blast shooting the
“Drama Queen” video.
Actually, a friend contacted me on
Facebook the other day. Her girlfriend had
recently died, and she took over raising
her daughter. She let the daughter, who
was about 13 or 14, see the video, and the
daughter began to cry. She thanked my
friend for letting her see the video, because
it gave her the courage to come out to her
as a trans man.