Saturday, April 11, 2009

The Hermaphrodite: Baby Dee


There’s a YouTube video of Baby Dee wearing a bee costume and riding a giant tricycle in a circle on a Providence sidewalk while dramatically recounting a scatological prank involving a 300-pound midget, a baby Jesus costume and an Entenmann’s chocolate cake. Despite this empirical evidence, the Cleveland-born vocalist, pianist, harpist, accordionist and composer argues—with sincerity—that “I’m not a theatrical kind of person.”

“No,” she adds, with a stage laugh that falls somewhere between vintage Bette Davis and classic Phyllis Diller, “I’m just a regular old hermaphrodite.”

Her claims of nontheatricality are seemingly betrayed by a 30-year career of performing in circus sideshows, dingy bars, art spaces and New York streets, where she busked atop a customized (obviously) harp-bearing tricycle. The context of her antitheatricality claims are explanations of how her spectacular new album Safe Inside the Day (Drag City) differs from her previous work.

4 comments:

  1. That is not no damn hemaphrodite, thats a damn man plan and simple. LOL. His azz wishes he was one.

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  2. In his own words he did stated that he was just a old hermaphrodite!

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  3. Appears as a man, but was frequently mentioned as a "she and her" throughout the article.

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