PUSSY TOURETTE, the San
Francisco-based, gender-bending musical phenomenon makes Ru-Paul look like a Disney
character. His dangerous, hard-driving and bluesy debut release, "Pussy Tourette in
HI-FI" has independently moved over seven thousand units and garnered rave reviews
nationwide. Pussy's first video release, the thirty-five thousand dollar production of
"French Bitch", which BABBLE magazine says Has redefined the concept of male
drag, has bean included by all major video pools. According td Street Sounds Magazine, The
video for "French Bitch"·(which, hello, kicked off Telegenics' progressive
reel) is currently stifling conversations from coast to coast. The RockAmerica dance remix
of the video is now hitting the club scene - hard.
Touring clubs nationally, Pussy Tourette has
developed a fanatical following which kicked into hyperdrive after his appearance before
literally millions on C-SPAN and live at the National March on Washington for Gay &
Lesbian Rights. Of the D.C. performance, Cliff Eastwick of Atlanta's ETC Magazine declared
"Pussy made the last year worth living!"
Beginning as a go-go dancer at San
Francisco's teeming underground clubs, Pussy was acclaimed the hottest and sauciest act on
the city's cabaret scene" by The City Magazine, when he started singing his original
compositions live. No lip-synching impersonator, The San Francisco Bay Times cheered
"One true star who will not compromise art...true, over-the-top brilliant.
In Florida, David Magazine called the show
"Incomparable" Babble Magazine in Chicago shouted, "I've been waiting for
someone like PUSSY TOURETTE for a long long time. His songs will become underground
classics. Goldy Van De water in Near York's QW said "when they sang 'Fuck My Pussy'
('Pussy's Boogie), they were saying it for me!"
Continuing his multi-media conquest, five
Pussy Tourette songs are featured in SEX IS, which won the "Best Day Film" Award
at Berlins International Film festival and his song 'Bridget' will appear on the TJ
Martel Foundation's "Rock n Dream DISCovery CD compilation,
PUSSY TOURETTE originated during the spring
of 1990 at a club in San Francisco called Dekadence. Working as a go-go dancer to support
his music lessons and college, he developed an act which involved elements of striptease
and drag. Soon dancers and club goers were congregating to watch.
Over the months Pussy refined h is
performance and began looking for other venues to perform. He began writing his own music
and added two female backup singers to the act. With the help of a prominent professional
audio equipment designer and engineer/producer, Pussy composed and produced music to sing
to on stage at Dekadence. His first real performance occurred at a fund-raiser for
C.O.Y.O.T.E. in October of 1990.
Pussy Tourette knew the act was going to be a
hit when just three months later he performed at the Strand Theater's New Year's Eve Bash.
In the following months he performed over 40 shows at various clubs, street fairs and
cable TV programs around San Francisco. He became a regular at clubs like Faster Pussycat,
Klubstitute and the DNA Lounge to name a few. And, as Pussy says, performed "every
fund-raiser on the planet."
Pussy's big break came as local newspapers
began writing favorable reviews about his music. In the summer of '92 he performed for a
sell-out crowd at S.F. club promoter Gus Beans sell out night club, Empire Ballroom, at
the Warfield Theater. Excitement and fan support continued to build as Pussy performed on
stage at the Folsom Street Fair, S.F.'s Gay Pride Celebration and the Castro Street Fair
and later in Los Angeles.
"In Hi-Fi" a cassette compilation
of eight Pussy Tourette songs was released in September of '92. Local record and book
stores such as Tower Records and A Different Light Books carried the cassette and in the
ensuing three months 1,000 copies were sold.
Pussy took some time off at the beginning of
the year to finish recording, remixing and mastering 'In Hi-Fi 1" for release on CD.
He also completed a music video for the song 'French Bitch' which is now getting national
club exposure on the reels of Telegenics, ET/Video Link and Rock America as well as air
play on MTV.
Pussy's most recent shows were in New York
City where he played at the Palladium and at the Limelight for New York's Style Summit
then in Southern Florida for a weeks worth of shows cumulating in Fort Lauderdale for
their Gay Pride Celebration. Prior to that he did eight shows in three days at the
National Gay and Lesbian March on Washington where he sold 1.800 units of his CD. He
finished the weekend off with an appearance on the Main Stage at the Rally on the Mall
where he performed before an estimated audience of 750,000 that was broadcast coast to
coast live on C-Span's coverage of the March. |