M Lamar
M Lamar (born May 29)[1] is a New York City-based composer, musician, performer, multimedia artist, and counter tenor. The New York Times describes his exhibit 'Negrogothic' as "a bracing alternative to the dispiriting traffic in blandly competent art clogging the New York gallery system these days, M. Lamar plumbs the depths of all-American trauma with visionary verve."[2] Hilton Als wrote in the pages of the New Yorker of M. Lamar "he deconstructs the persona of the diva even as he wraps himself in divalike hauteur."[3]
Lamar was born in Alabama, studied painting at the San Francisco Art Institute, attending Yale for graduate school in sculpture before dropping out to focus on music.[4] M. Lamar continues to train vocally with Ira Siff most famous for being the founder and lead soprano of La Gran Scena Opera Company as well as training Klaus Nomi.[5]
Lamar is the twin brother of actress Laverne Cox;[6] in the episodes "Lesbian Request Denied" and "Mother's Day" of the hit Netflix show Orange Is the New Black, Lamar portrays the pre-transitioning Sophia.[7][8] Lamar participated in an open dialogue with authors bell hooks, Marci Blackman, and Samuel R. Delany called Transgressive Sexual Practice as part of hooks's scholar-in-residence at the New School in October 2014.
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