No single lineage can contain the magic of New Orleans music. But one essential thread is the legacy of queer people — from Bobby Marchan to Big Freedia — who steered the sounds and the scenes.
Big Freedia, shown performing in 2019 in New Orleans, is part of our starter kit for the queer music of New Orleans.Big Freedia, shown performing in 2019 in New Orleans, is part of our starter kit for the queer music of New Orleans.New Orleans music history is played out by an ensemble cast, as colorful, diverse and dynamic as a Sunday-afternoon second line. No single lineage can quite unlock the ongoing magic that remains far more than the sum of its parts.
Bobby Marchan wasn't from New Orleans, but he got there just about as fast as he could. Born Oscar James Gibson in Youngstown, Ohio in 1930, he was barely out of his teens when he hit the road with a drag troupe that he'd put together called the Powder Box Revue. In 1953, they arrived at the Dew Drop Inn in New Orleans for a few weeks' booking and Marchan, who was also a singer and MC, decided to stay.
The host of this oasis was Patsy Vidalia, a drag performer, singer and comic who presided over the night's shows and late-night jam sessions, as well as the annual Halloween Gay Ball and costume contest – which Bobby Marchan told an interviewer in the late '90s was"the biggest show of the year at the Dew Drop.
Katey Red, the first openly gay rapper to release an album in New Orleans, did so that same year, and Big Freedia, certainly the most successful one, followed the year after. They were too young to be directly connected to Bobby Marchan, but the local hip-hop and bounce scene that they grew up in and aspired to join was inarguably shaped by him – and by the legacy that he and Patsy Vidalia had created on the city's stages, too.
James Booker,"Medley: Blues Minuet/ Until The Real Thing Comes Along/ Baby Won't You Please Come Home"To all accounts, capturing Booker was like lightning in a bottle: he was mercurial, eccentric, often depressed or high, and especially later in life given over to paranoid visions, not helped by the time he spent in prison. He died after a long fight with substance abuse in 1983, only in his early 40s.
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