Billy Porter will perform his one man, one-night-only show at The Met in Philadelphia on June 1. He spoke with EWellingtonPHL about fashion, spirituality and what he says to critics who doubt his ability to play James Baldwin in an upcoming biopic.
To show up any other way, he said, is to fail.
Porter intimately understands this. He released his first R&B album in 1997. Like typical R&B crooners of the time, he sported a high top fade and was romantic with women in his music videos. He presented straight. but still, he said, the industry rejected him because he was gay. He left mainstream musicKinky Boots The Musical“I got a second chance at my mainstream music dream,” Porter said on a recent Friday morning from a Milwaukee hotel, in the midst of a 6-week, 25-city tour.
Black Mona Lisa is relevant in the past, present, future, and always. It’s my legacy. I’m naming it and claiming it.several years back and she had Iyanla Vanzant and Maya Angelou on and they said, “If you switch your intention from ego to service, everything works out.” What does that service look like for me in this industry? It was [opening up to] my queerness, the very thing people were telling me was my liability. The choice was not easy. But I have grown into it. There is a power in that.
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