Joey Arias

Myspace Layouts - Myspace Editor - Image Hosting

************************************************************ ***** Joey's long and diverse career has changed the way many people look at drag performance, and bridged the worlds of pop music, art and fashion decades before such things were the norm. He came to New York in the mid-seventies -an extremist even then in hard-edged beauty and genderplay, and quickly became a fixture at the Fiorucci boutique. He began performing in clubs soon after, most notably with Klaus Nomi, the New Wave Teutonic diva, and later joined both David Bowie and Iggy Pop on world stages. Joey also had a band in the eighties called Strange Party, which consisted of Joey Arias, of Fiorucci/David Bowie fame), a TV commercial producer-jazz singer-poet (Tony Frere), a dilettante composer living off of stocks and bonds (George Elliott, formerly of Come On), a successful illustrator (Page Wood, designer of Summer '81's Bloomingdale's bag), a mad female scientist and model (Janus, who worked with Joey and Tony in the Klaus Nomi show), a sizzling session saxophonist (Steve Elson), a rock and roll male secretary (Tom Kirchner, former child-actor).In the late Eighties, Joey began "channeling" his idol Billie Holiday onstage, in a chilling vocal impersonation that has been seen on countless stages over the years, and regularly here at home (including a five-year residency at Bar D'O.) He's been an enthusiastic night-crawler for over a quarter-century, and his backstage and aftershow antics (in clubs from Club 57 through Click + Drag) are the stuff of which urban legends are made. $$$BRAND NEW VIDEO OF JOEY IN THE ZUMANITY ORGY$$$Zumanity

Add to My Profile | More VideosThe Man Who Sold the World

Add to My Profile | More Videos