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"'I" ~, Houston Pride N e w s I e f ·f e r Houston Ga'Y and Lesbian Pride Week 1995 June 1995 An Interview With Oajae Application Deadlines ajae, born Karen Gorden, Right, I was doing a lot of R & Parade Entries June 6 opens for Fern 2 Fern at B, trying to find a niche, trying to D. Pride Fest '95. Dajae, who find something that felt like me. I Late Parade Entries June 13 spent some ten years fronting R&B dealt with a lot of different produc- "l groups doing top 40 covers, did not ers but they didn't know what do ei- No Parade Entries will be accepted after June 13 .JI find international success until she ther. Then it just so happened that I Pride Fest '95 ... May 31 met the infamous Cajmere and re- was doing background work at Jive leased "Brighter Days" which raced records and that's how I met to the #2 position on the Billboard Cajmere. From there I started doing charts and gave Dajae one of the dance music.I figure if you can sing Dates biggest club hits of 1993. Her fol- you can do anything vocally. Maybe low up single IOUGot Me Up" also it's jazz, blues, R &B, or House - it . Pride Week Executive Meeting entered the Billboard top 20 insur- is just the feel that you have for it ing Dajae could never be known as when you open your mouth. Ihave . June 6, 7:00 PM a one hit wonder. Her third single a feeling that when you open your "Is It On My Face" was released late mouth you can do just about any- 2700 Albany, Suite 304 in 1994 and secured her a third top thing ... twenty billboard single, peaking at .Ican try, but if it doesn't work Mandatory Parade Meeting Number 5 on the chart. I go back to the drawing board. June 13, 7:00 PM, Dajae almost missed all of this What is your favorite bind of success. After ten years of singing music? Santa Fe Bar and Patio, 804 Pacific R&Bshe still had not yielded all of Actually I like listening to Pride Week ... June 16th to June 25th ., this success she desired. She was dusties. Seventies music like Earth, I ready to quit singing but a support- Wind and Fire, Maze ...Stuff like that. Pride Parade June 25th, 2:00 PM ive family refused to let her give up. Ever think of doing a cover of I "I've been very fortunate to pave a an old seventies song? Pride Fest '95 June 25, 4:00 PM I sunnorrive familv." Daiae savs. "YOIl Lrlid.onr-e _hut_ .i t would.have.to ~.a5 '--.J-- ---- --- --- - - ---- _.---- a one hit wonder. Her third single a feeling that when you open your "Is It On My Face" was released late mouth you can do just about any- 2700 Alban}" Suite 304 in 1994 and secured her a third top thing... ' twenty billboard single, peaking at . I can try, but if it doesn't work Mandatory Parade Meeting Number 5 on the chart. I go back to the drawing board. June 13, 7:00 PM, Dajae almost missed all of this What is your favorite bind of Santa Fe Bar and Patio, 804 Pacific success. After ten years of singing music? R&Bshe still had not yielded all of Actually I like listening to Pride Week ... June 16th to dunezsth this success she desired. She was dusties. Seventies music like Earth, -, ready to quit singing but a support- Wind and Fire, Maze ...Stuff like that. Pride Parade June 25th, 2:00 PM I ive family refused to let her give up. Ever think of doing a cover of "I've been very fortunate to have a an old seventies song? Pride Fest '95 June 25, 4:00 PM supportive family," Dajae says, "You I did once, but it would have to see, my life was never doing what it be a really good song. I wanted to was supposed to do, in terms of my do "Rock Steady" but I heard that If you need information on any singing. I had my ups ...and mostly they were doing remixes for that al- of the above dates or events at that time, like 89-90 my downs. ready so that cut that. For me to do please call 713-529-6979 That's when Cajmere and I found it the song would have to be some- each other and "Brighter Days" came thing that meant a lot to me. I don't about. I spoke with Dajae about the want just sing a cover tune and its changes in her life since making it not what I want to do. big and playing her first pride event. Tell us about meeting Cajmere {The following is an interview and joining forces to make great with Dajae] dance music. You,have been doing music for Oh, we hit it off from the be- a long time but when you started you ginning. He came to me and said I weren't doing..• dance music . see Dajae page 11 f your official invitation I' to the " " offiCial kickoff party to pride week -.- friday, june 16 6 to 8 pm the lovett inn 5 i I- e nee I 0 eel eb ra I ion 501 lovett -~ HOUSTON GAY AND LESBIAN PRIDE WEEK 1995 Houston Pride- Newsletter Page: 2 Pac•• ------------------------------------------------------- --- from pa HOUSTON want yo An Interview With Fern 2 Fern into the GAY & LESBIAN it for Ii, 10"'" ~" okay I: bonded: hast been a year 'since we all to no longer tour. One Femmer was like 30 minutes long. These shows :PRIDE WEEK DU clamoured to the dance floor the quoted as saying "Can you imagine were over an hour. We did 16 songs ;- • Imoment that we heard the word all of us with PMSat the same time?" and it was a lot different from what on you1 A year later we find three of four 1 995 "Switch" and a lot has changed for we are used to doing. It was amaz- thingO~ the group who found overnight fame original group members on the road ing. "TheOtl with their first single. Fern 2 Fern promoting the release of their new You were found to be quite two thaj watched as the single that was tak- full length CD "Animus." I caught up scandalous over there, your show Julie Sis~a & Ray Ramirez Di~ ing America's dance floors by storm with Lynn Pompei in New Orleans was even censored. Co-Chair • I peneno could only find radio play on three where she was vacationing after do- (Laughs) It started-on our first Darren Armstrong stations in the US. They watched as ing five concerts in a row in London. night there. We wept on a show Treasurer "Highe~ and Phs mainstream America screamed that called "The Word" and Itold the host Sue Guerrero "F~ they were trying to recruit children What you are doing in Louisi- to get screwed on live TV. Secretary , into the lifestyle that had helped to ana? Did you ever read the book Rose Gutrerrez make them famous. Then they I am sitting in the rain visiting , "Winning Friends and Influencing Volunteer Coornador watched as their record label gave with friends. People"? Rob Hubschman into mainstream pressures and The most asked question (Laughs) Newsletter shelved "Woman to Woman" the about Fan 2 Fem is about the cast And then ... Howard McHale natural follow up to "Switch" in an changes, many think that the en- We had to do a show privately Pride Week Co-Chair attempt to secure radio play for the tire cast is new. for the Westminster Council before Patrick Mcilvain group. Oh no, just one is new. There's we did any public shows. Mailouts The more palatable single "Ob- LD, Christina, myself and LaLa who Westminster you have to under- Christopher Noessel session" was released and major is new. stand is very prude. We were all un- Pride Guide market radio play became a reality Tell us about LaLa. der the impression that Europe was Teri Vega for the group. Then America's favor- She's amazing. She has a great much more open minded than Pride Week inf lesbians began to have problems voice, stage presence and a great, America. So we get there and do this within. Relations with one group great ass. Can I say that? no holes barred show with naked Board of Directors Jack Valin ski member grew so tense that they Yes. How is Fem 2 Fem differ- women wearing strap-ons, with t were only relieved when she agreed ent a year later? Naked, wearing strap-ons? Executive Director Carol Clark don't We are completely jaded. I There is a song called "Wor- deal wi Secretary think that we would grow even if we ship" on the album. It's polytheistic you. T Julie Siska weren't touring but touring you go and about sacrificing. In the old pa- -, tion. It CFO /Treasurer through a lot. I feel more in touch gan days they would do rituals point il! Darren Armstrong with myself because there are a lot where the women would wear strap- there w of times that you have to deal with ons and the men would actually se- Brian Keever discouri a lot of crap and you have to be vere their penises off. It was kind of Ray Ramirez me tha~ , around a lot of people that you don't like a re-enactment of that.

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