Pamela DeGroff been writing for TGForum since the start of 1999. Her humor column, The Pamela Principle, ran until 2005. She started the Perpetual Change music column in May of 1999, and in 2008, Angela Gardner came up with the idea for the Transvocalizers column and put Pam to work on that. Pamela was a regular contributor to Transgender Community News until that magazine's demise. While part of a support group in Nashville called The Tennessee Vals she began writing for their newsletter, and also wrote for several local GLBT alternative newspapers in Tennessee. Pamela is currently a staff reporter for a small town daily paper in Indiana, and is also a working musician.
They’re a band of Jewish transmen from New York and they’ll rock your world with their Jewcore music. And they have some interesting thoughts to share with Pamela DeGroff in this month’s Perpetual Change interview. Pamela rounds our the column with some new music news.
Transvocalizers features Irish performer Shirley Temple Bar! Learn what her name means, how famous she is in her homeland, and how she got where she is today. Pamela DeGroff rounds out the column with some reviews of new music and TG music videos. Keep up with all the latest music news in TVocalizers.
This month Pamela DeGroff devotes her Perpetual Change column to a review of the debut album by the New York City band Chaos & Lace. The guitar driven rock is sure to please fans of the time honored rock sound, with no samples or rap to clutter it up.
TransVocalizers focuses on Foxxjazell’s debut album, “Introducing Foxxjazell” as Pamela DeGroff brings us a review. Pamela also has info on TVocalists Beth Isbell, Coco Peru, Chaos and Lace and more. Plus some tips for hot new dance tracks.
This month Pamela DeGroff introduces us to a transgendered musician in Singapore who has never had a paying gig. Catrina Daimon Lee is a multi instrumentalist who mixes jazz, rock, minimalism and other musical influences to create an exciting sound that is about as far from mainstream pop as one can get.
TVocalizers covers transgender people who sing. From the finest sopranos to the roughest baritones as long as they are TG vocalists they’re covered here. This week Pamela DeGroff features Lala McCallan, a flawless performer from Italy and Miss Tia Anna, a.k.a. Mary Harness from the U.K.
In this Perpetual Change Pamela DeGroff interviews a hard working British TG musician named Diana Stone. Ms. Stone performs with two bands and works on solo recorded music. She’s the featured performer in this month’s Perpetual Change. Other music news, too!
Israeli pop diva Aderet has a new single out and she’s sung it in French. Extraordianire! And that’s the name of the song, too. Our music maven Pam DeGroff reports on the Aderet single and gives us some tips on other tunes to check out.
Pam DeGroff interviews Juliana Brown, NYC rocker who fronts the band Chaos and Lace. It used to be The Cruel Shoes. Read Perpetual Change to find out why she changed band names, what the new group is into and when they’ll have a CD out. Pam also does her famous mini reviews of some new CDs.
Pamela DeGroff takes TVocalizers to San Francisco for an interview with the first lady of Trannyshack, Heklina. They discuss Heklina’s background, her name (named for a volcano!) and a lot more. Plus Pam has mini reviews of new music. Don’t miss Transvocalizers!
What’s a transgender performer with a Filipino, Spanish, Hispanic and Italian ancestry doing producing Japanese pop? She’s bi-coastal, and her parents met at Studio 54. This month Perpetual Change introduces you to another TG musician (and artist and model) — Maganda.
This month Pamela DeGroff has tracked down New York City drag performer Epiphany. She’s a a hot young queen on the scene who has performed at private affairs for celebs like Kelsey Grammer and Susan Lucci and regularly knocks ’em dead at venues all over the east coast. No only a beauty, she sings!
The Shondes, a New York band featured before in Perpetual Change, has fallen on some hard times. Learn what’s going on with The Shondes and how you might be able to help them out. Just part of this edition of Perpetual Change.
In last month’s TVocalizers Pamela DeGroff interviewed transgender rapper Foxxjazell. This month Pamela reviews Foxxjazell’s CD “Boy, Girl, Whateva.” And she does some capsule reviews of new CDs by non-TG artists that you may like.
England seems to have more than it’s share to truly unique, creative individuals in all of the creative arts. Especially in music. Progressive rock was practically an English creation, considering some of the bands that started their careers in the mid-1960s to late 1970s. This column is named after an amazing piece of music by […]
Transvocalizers is about TGs who sing. In today’s column Pamela DeGroff interviews transgender hip hop/hip pop performer Foxxjazell. This southern lady has established a presence on YouTube and other online venues. She chats with Pamela DeGroff about her new single release, facing prejudice and hate within the hip hop community and her plans for the future.
Last month, Perpetual Change featured an interview with trans musician/singer/songwriter StormMiguel Forez. This month, we feature a review of his latest release, 2010’s Long Lost Sun, his first project since transistioning. (Produced by StormMiguel Florez.) The album is what most reviewers would call minimalistic, or just plain bare bones production. Most of the material is […]
This month, Transvocalizers features one of our regular TGForum contributors, Dina Amberle. She performs as a piano bar vocalist under the name Dina Sinatra and has established her own circuit of regular venues throughout the greater Philadelphia area. She’s become known for her parodies of Frank Sinatra songs, but also has a vast repertoire of […]
It’s usually a bit of a challenge to come up with something interesting for my first column of the new year. This year is different, though, for two reasons. First off, I planned ahead months in advance. And secondly, I found StormMiguel Florez. Florez is, in his own words, “…a Mexican American FtM, genderqueer, singer/songwriter, […]
Transvocalizers is starting the new year out right by introducing a new (to us…) performer by the name of Sherry Vine. Vine, whose real name is Keith Levy, has made a definite dent in the world of live vocal drag shows by doing often risque parodies of current hits. Vine does owe sort of a […]
In our TGForum companion Transvocalizers column, I presented a brief review of a Christmas project released 5 years ago, Carols Across America that featured Donna Sachet on one track. I also offered some year end music shopping suggestions for all you procrastinators out there. Well, for some of us (myself included), procrastination is an art […]
Last month, we presented the first part of our interview with Christine Beatty. She was one half of the band Glamazon and has since embarked on a career as a journalist and author. We’re fortunate that Ms. Beatty took the time to do this interview in the first place, and it’s because of her thoughtful, […]
Last month, we interviewed singer/songwriter/activist Shawna Virago in this column. As promised, this month we feature a review of her debut project, Objectified. Produced by Shawna Virago, she also plays guitar, bass, harmonica, and piano, as well as doing all vocals and writing all material. Other musicians include Jeffrey Alphonsus Mooney, drums; Tim Perdue, bass; […]
Christine Beatty is a familiar name to TGForum readers. Before she started writing her TransActive column, she was featured in this column as part of the rock duo Glamazon back in September, 2001. Along with her musical endeavors, she is also an author and poet. She has published one book of poetry entitled Misery Loves […]
This month, Transvocalizers and TGForum would like to introduce Shawna Virago to our readers. She’s new to us, but is something of a one-woman force of nature in San Francisco’s underground transgender music scene. Her debut project, Objectified, is a collection of 12 original tunes, ranging from folk-punk to acoustic glam. We plan to bring […]
A Review of Two Sara Davis Buechner CDs, Rudolf Friml Piano Works and Joaquin Turina Mujeres Espanolas (Women Of Spain) Back in February and March, this column featured a two-part series on the classical pianist Sara Davis Buechner. Last year, she gave a concert at New York City’s Merkin Concert Hall on November 11th, 2009, […]
