SHEQUIDA

Shequida is glamorous, and sexy. She is funny and a little kooky.  When I think back of the early days of going into New York clubbing as a young gayling, in the most of the 90's, the clubs shook and the queens were fierce! Bunny, Sherry, Hedda, Mona Foot, Sweetie, Cashetta, L'Homma Van Zandt, Harmonica Sunbeam, Faboo, Joey Arias and Shequida Hall. These were queen that put love, sweat, and tears of making their drag careers...no reality show to bring them up. And most of them are still going strong. I have fond memories of Shequida at her shows at Monster, Barracuda and Escuelita. Her shows continue in New York...I can't wait to get back and see her again....a New York legend by all means. Shequida is a classically trained opera singer, songwriter and playwright,  who migrated from Jamaica to New York in the late 80's and eventually trained at Juilliard. But then drag happened. But since then she has been bringing a combination of her spellbinding voice with her sickening lewks to take drag performance to a classy new level. As Michael Musto of the Village voice once said "with that voice, Shequida brings together the bourgeoisie and the unwashed masses in bravos." He is right. To this day she is still bringing a damn fine entertaining show. Not many queens around that can carry a whole show themselves for over an hour.  I only wish I was more out of my quarantine already from my second shot, because this Friday she, Lady Bunny and Amanda Lepore start a new weekly show in Queens at the Yards,  in the Hudson Yards. That is bound to be fierce children. If in New York...event deets and tickets here.