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The Wreckoning (Willam Belli Album)
''The Wreckoning'' is the debut studio album by American drag queen Willam Belli, released on November 17, 2012. The album was self-released by Belli and was available exclusively on his website. Background and development Many of the album's collaborators had previously worked with Willam. Detox and Vicky Vox, who are featured on "Chow Down" and "Starfucker", are in the band Tranzkuntinental with Willam. Rhea Litré, who appears on "Let's Have a KaiKai" is also a member of the band. Michael Serrato, who directed several of the album's music videos, is a writer for the ''Neil's Puppet Dreams'', in which Willam has appeared. Release ''The Wreckoning'' was self-released through Willam Belli's website on November 17, 2012. Singles # The album's lead single, "Trouble", was released on March 12, 2012. The song was produced by RuPaul's '' Red Hot'' collaborator Tom Trujillo. The music video for the song was directed by porn director Chi Chi LaRue and premiered on Logo TV. # "Chow Down ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Willam Belli
Willam Belli (, born June 30, 1982), mononymously known as Willam, is an American drag queen, actor, singer-songwriter, reality television personality, author, and YouTuber. Willam came to prominence as a contestant on the RuPaul's Drag Race season 4, fourth season of ''RuPaul's Drag Race'' in 2012. She was the first contestant to be disqualified from the competition. Before appearing on ''Drag Race'', Willam worked as an actor, most notably playing the recurring role of transgender woman Cherry Peck in Ryan Murphy (producer), Ryan Murphy's medical drama ''Nip/Tuck''. She has continued to perform in a variety of films, television series and web series, often in drag. In 2018, she appeared in the critically acclaimed film ''A Star Is Born (2018 film), A Star Is Born''. For her performance on the dark comedy web series ''EastSiders'', she was nominated for a Daytime Emmy Award for Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Digital Daytime Drama Series, Outstanding Sup ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
RuPaul's Drag Race (season 4)
The fourth season of ''RuPaul's Drag Race'' is the fourth series, which began airing on January 30, 2012, and aired its final episode on April 30 of the same year. The cast members were announced November 13, 2011. The winner of season four headlined Logo's Drag Race Tour featuring Absolut Vodka, and also won a one-of-a-kind trip, a lifetime supply of NYX Cosmetics, and a cash prize of $100,000. Like the previous season, Santino Rice and Billy B (Billy Brasfield), celebrity makeup artist and star of the HGTV mini-series ''Hometown Renovation'', shared the same seat at the judges table alternatively, Brasfield filling in for Rice when needed. Both judges appeared side-by-side in the audience during the "Reunited" episode. The theme song played during the runway every episode was "Glamazon" and the song played during the credits was "The Beginning", both from RuPaul's album '' Glamazon''. This is the first season in which a contestant, Willam Belli, was disqualified from the co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
LA Weekly
''LA Weekly'' is a free weekly alternative newspaper in Los Angeles, California. The paper covers music, arts, film, theater, culture, and other local news in the Los Angeles area. ''LA Weekly'' was founded in 1978 by Jay Levin (among others), and he served as the publication's editor from 1978 to 1991, as well as its president from 1978 to 1992. Publication history Founding Jay Levin put together an investment group that included actor Michael Douglas, Burt Kleiner, Joe Benadon, and Pete Kameron. Levin's co-founders included Joie Davidow, Michael Ventura, and Ginger Varney. Levin was formerly the publisher of the '' Los Angeles Free Press''. The majority of the ''LA Weekly'''s initial staff members came from the '' Austin Sun'', a similar-natured bi-weekly, which had recently ceased publication. The group were inspired to create the ''LA Weekly'' by their work at the ''Sun'' as well as other alternative weeklies such as the ''Chicago Reader'' and Boston's '' The Real Pa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Queerty
''Queerty'' is an online magazine and newspaper covering gay- and LGBTQ-oriented entertainment and news, founded in 2005 by David Hauslaib. As of June 2015, the site had more than five million monthly unique visitors. History ''Queerty'' was founded by David Hauslaib in 2005, with Bradford Shellhammer serving as founding editor. The site briefly shut down operations in 2011, before being sold to Q.Digital, Inc., the current owners and operators. ''Newsweek ''Newsweek'' is an American weekly news magazine based in New York City. Founded as a weekly print magazine in 1933, it was widely distributed during the 20th century and has had many notable editors-in-chief. It is currently co-owned by Dev P ...'' called ''Queerty'' "a leading site for gay issues" in 2010. Since 2012, the site bestows the ''Queerty'' Awards or "Queerties", in which their readers vote for the "best of LGBTQ Media and Culture" every March. References External links * LGBTQ-related magazines ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
YouTube
YouTube is an American social media and online video sharing platform owned by Google. YouTube was founded on February 14, 2005, by Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim who were three former employees of PayPal. Headquartered in San Bruno, California, it is the second-most-visited website in the world, after Google Search. In January 2024, YouTube had more than 2.7billion monthly active users, who collectively watched more than one billion hours of videos every day. , videos were being uploaded to the platform at a rate of more than 500 hours of content per minute, and , there were approximately 14.8billion videos in total. On November 13, 2006, YouTube was purchased by Google for $1.65 billion (equivalent to $ billion in ). Google expanded YouTube's business model of generating revenue from advertisements alone, to offering paid content such as movies and exclusive content produced by and for YouTube. It also offers YouTube Premium, a paid subs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Calpernia Addams
Calpernia Sarah Addams (born February 20, 1971) is an American actress, musician, spokesperson and activist for transgender rights and issues. Early life Addams grew up in Nashville, Tennessee. She served as a Hospital Corpsman with the Navy. During her last year in the military, she came out as a transgender woman. Addams chose the name "Calpernia" from the William Shakespeare play ''Julius Caesar'' (a variant spelling of Caesar's wife Calpurnia) and its appearance on a tombstone in the film ''The Addams Family''. Career In 2002, she formed Deep Stealth Productions in Hollywood with Andrea James. Deep Stealth creates educational and entertainment material around gender-identification issues and the experiences of differently-gendered people. Addams and James coached Felicity Huffman for her Academy Award-nominated performance as a transgender woman in the film '' Transamerica''. At the Sundance debut of '' Soldier's Girl'', Addams met Jane Fonda, whose son Troy Garit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bruno Mars
Peter Gene Hernandez (born October 8, 1985), known professionally as Bruno Mars, is an American singer, songwriter, musician, and record producer. Regarded as a pop icon, he is known for his three-octave tenor vocal range, live performances, Retro style, retro showmanship and musical versatility. He is accompanied by his band, Bruno Mars#Band members, the Hooligans. Raised in Honolulu, Mars gained recognition in Hawaii as a child for his Elvis impersonator, impersonation of Elvis Presley, before moving to Los Angeles in 2003 to pursue a musical career. Mars established his name in the music industry as a songwriter and co-founder of the production team the Smeezingtons. He rose to fame as a recording artist after featuring on the US number-one single "Nothin' on You" (2009) by B.o.B. Mars' first three studio albums – ''Doo-Wops & Hooligans'' (2010), ''Unorthodox Jukebox'' (2012) and ''24K Magic (album), 24K Magic'' (2016) – found critical and commercial success, with the la ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Travie McCoy
Travis Lazarus "Travie" McCoy (born August 5, 1981) is an American rapper and singer-songwriter. He is the co-founder and lead vocalist of the rap rock band Gym Class Heroes, which he formed in 1997 with then-fellow teenager Matt McGinley, after the two became acquainted with the East Coast punk rock scene. After releasing their debut album independently, the group signed with Fueled by Ramen, a subsidiary of Warner Music Group, to release their second album, ''The Papercut Chronicles'' (2005). During the band's hiatus, McCoy shifted focus onto his solo work and signed with the aforementioned label in a joint venture with T-Pain's Nappy Boy Entertainment to release his debut studio album, '' Lazarus'' (2010). Its lead single, "Billionaire" (featuring Bruno Mars), peaked at number four on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100 and number three on the UK singles chart, while the album was met with moderate critical and commercial response. In 2022, he signed with Hopeless Records to releas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Billionaire (song)
"Billionaire" is a song by American rapper Travie McCoy from his debut studio album, ''Lazarus'' (2010), featuring vocals by American singer-songwriter Bruno Mars. It was first released on March 9, 2010, in various countries via digital download as the album's lead single by Fueled by Ramen. McCoy co-wrote the song with its producers Mars, Philip Lawrence and Ari Levine of the Smeezingtons. The song was created from a melody hummed by Mars and Lawrence. The lyrics were written during an eleven-day trip Mars and Levine made to London to work on a record, supported by Mars's label. "Billionaire" is a reggae and pop-rap song. Critical reception towards the song was mixed, as music critics praised the song's style comparing it to the music of Sublime, Jason Mraz and Jack Johnson, but criticized its songwriting. Lyrically, the song has a money-driven hook with political elements in the verses. Such elements include helping those in need, having a show like Oprah and being on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wilson Phillips
Wilson Phillips is an American pop vocal group formed in Los Angeles in 1989. The group consists of sisters Carnie and Wendy Wilson, the daughters of Brian Wilson of The Beach Boys, and Chynna Phillips, the daughter of John and Michelle Phillips of The Mamas & The Papas. Their 1990 eponymous debut album sold over 10 million copies worldwide and included five major US hit singles, four of which cracked the Top 10, with three peaking at number one on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100. The group has been nominated for five Grammy Awards including Best New Artist, Album of the Year for '' Wilson Phillips'', and Song of the Year and Best Pop Vocal Performance by a Duo or Group for " Hold On" at the 33rd Annual Grammy Awards, as well as Best Pop Vocal Performance by a Duo or Group for " You're in Love" at the 34th Annual Grammy Awards. The group has also been nominated for two American Music Awards, and in 1990, won the Billboard Music Award for Hot 100 Single of the Year for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hold On (Wilson Phillips Song)
"Hold On" is a song by American vocal group Wilson Phillips, released on February 27, 1990, by SBK Records as the lead single from their debut studio album, ''Wilson Phillips'' (1990). The song was written by Carnie Wilson, Chynna Phillips and Glen Ballard, and produced by Ballard. It topped the US ''Billboard'' Hot 100 for a week in June 1990 and was the most successful single of that year in the US. It also became a worldwide hit, peaking within the top three in Australia and Canada and the top 10 in Belgium, Ireland, New Zealand, Sweden, and the United Kingdom. The song received platinum sales certifications in Australia and the UK and a gold certification in the US. Julien Temple directed its music video, which was filmed on sites in California. "Hold On" won the Billboard Music Award for Hot 100 Single of the Year for 1990. At the 33rd Annual Grammy Awards, "Hold On" was nominated for Song of the Year and Best Pop Vocal Performance by a Duo or Group, losing in both categ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lady Bunny
Lady Bunny, previously known as Bunny Hickory Dickory Dock (born Jon Ingle, August 13, 1962), is an American drag queen, nightclub DJ, actor, comedian, and event organizer. She is the founder of the annual Wigstock event, as well as an occasional television and radio personality. She has released disco singles such as " Shame, Shame, Shame!" and "The Pussycat Song", and has hosted two one-woman comedy shows, 'That Ain't No Lady!' and 'Clowns Syndrome'. Personal life Early life and education Lady Bunny was born in Wilmington, North Carolina, but grew up in Chattanooga, Tennessee, and describes her childhood as having been "wonderful and helucked out in the parents department." Her mother is a retired registered nurse and her father is a history professor at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. Growing up, she would try on costumes and outfits, and put on plays with the other kids in the neighborhood. Her family lived next to a florist and she would collect the thro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
