SOUND BARRIER is a new documentary podcast about artists who break barriers in music and culture. Season 1 is about Sylvester— a musician who is perhaps even more relevant today than in the 70s and 80s. Imagine: before Elton John was out of the closet, before androgynous performers of color like Prince were in the mainstream, there was an openly gay Black man who dressed in drag. Sound Barrier delves deep into his music and his life, showing him in all his genre and gender-bending glory. Discover the Black queer ancestor who paved the way for today's most innovative artists.
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SOUND BARRIER is a new documentary podcast about artists who break barriers in music and culture. Season 1 is about Sylvester— a musician who is perhaps even more relevant today than in the 70s and 80s. Imagine: before Elton John was out of the closet, before androgynous performers of color like Prince were in the mainstream, there was an openly gay Black man who dressed in drag. Sound Barrier delves deep into his music and his life, showing him in all his genre and gender-bending glory. Discover the Black queer ancestor who paved the way for today's most innovative artists.
If you know Sylvester at all, you know him as the gender-bending Queen of Disco whose hit song “You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real) has lit up many a dance floor. But he was so much more than that. As a queer person of color – way before “gender-fluid” was even a term – Sylvester broke all kinds of barriers. And he refused to compromise his authentic self as he paved the way for generations of intersectional artists to come. In this first season of Sound Barrier, we take you into the backstage battles, the glamorous European discos, the San Fransisco neighborhood that was ground zero for the Gay Rights Movement: the fabulous world of Sylvester.
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Sound Barrier: Sylvester
SOUND BARRIER is a new documentary podcast about artists who break barriers in music and culture. Season 1 is about Sylvester— a musician who is perhaps even more relevant today than in the 70s and 80s. Imagine: before Elton John was out of the closet, before androgynous performers of color like Prince were in the mainstream, there was an openly gay Black man who dressed in drag. Sound Barrier delves deep into his music and his life, showing him in all his genre and gender-bending glory. Discover the Black queer ancestor who paved the way for today's most innovative artists.
