Katey Red
{{short description|American rapper}}
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| genre = Bounce music
| occupation = Rapper
| instrument = Vocals
| years_active = Late 1990s – present
| label = Take Fo' Records
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Katey Red (born May 17, 1983) is a bounce artist and M.C. from New Orleans. Red is most known for being one of the first transgender rappers in bounce music and is credited with creating the sissy bounce genre.
Background
Red was born in the Melpomene Projects. She attended Walter L. Cohen High School and was part of the school's marching band.{{Cite web|url=http://www.frenchquarter.com/people/katey-red/890/|title=Katey Red|website=French Quarter|language=en-US|access-date=June 21, 2018}}
Career
In 1998, DJ Jubilee saw Red rapping at a block party in New Orleans and signed her to his label, Take Fo' Records. She released her first album in 1999, titled "Melpomene Block Party".{{Cite news|url=http://blog.nola.com/keithspera/2009/05/gay_rap_show_celebrates_10_yea.html|title=Gay rap show celebrates 10 years of Katey Red|last=Fensterstock|first=Alison|date=May 21, 2009|work=NOLA.com|access-date=June 21, 2018|language=en-US|archive-date=June 22, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180622033011/http://blog.nola.com/keithspera/2009/05/gay_rap_show_celebrates_10_yea.html|url-status=dead}}
Considered the first openly gay bounce artist, Red developed a unique style of bounce, which is often referred to as sissy bounce.{{Cite magazine|url=https://www.vanityfair.com/culture/2010/03/katey-red-starts-a-band|title=New Orleans Sissy Bounce: Rap Goes Drag|last=Berk|first=Brett|date=March 11, 2011|magazine=Vanity Fair|access-date=June 21, 2018|language=en}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/musicblog/2008/sep/29/sissy.rap.neworleans.bounce|title=Scene and heard: New Orleans Bounce and 'sissy rap'|last=McDonnell|first=John|date=September 29, 2008|website=the Guardian|language=en|access-date=June 21, 2018}}{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uU8wNON84xkC&q=%22Katey+Red%22|title=Floodlines: Community and Resistance from Katrina to the Jena Six|last=Flaherty|first=Jordan|publisher=ReadHowYouWant.com|year=2010|isbn=9781459602182|pages=35}} Her style is high energy, often employing call and response.{{Cite news|url=https://www.vice.com/en/article/katey-reds-guide-to-daiquiri-drinking/|title=Katey Red's Guide to Daiquiri Drinking|last=Hollyman|first=Helen|date=September 27, 2013|work=Vice|access-date=June 21, 2018|language=en-us}} She frequently performs and collaborates with other bounce artists, including Big Freedia, Sissy Nobby, Vockah Redu, and Cheeky Blakk.{{Cite news|url=https://www.fuse.tv/2014/06/katey-red-big-freedia-first-time|title=Katey Red Recalls Meeting Big Freedia For The First Time|last=Sherman|first=Maria|date=June 27, 2014|work=Fuse|access-date=June 21, 2018}}{{Cite news|url=http://www.offbeat.com/articles/bounce-this-katey-reds-dream-team/|title=Bounce to This: Katey Red's Dream Team|last=Welch|first=Michael Patrick|date=November 1, 2012|work=OffBeat Magazine|access-date=June 21, 2018|language=en-US}}
In 2011, Red, along with other New Orleans bounce artists, was the subject of an exhibition at the Ogden Museum of Southern Art entitled "Where They At?". The exhibition was also taken to the Abrons Art Center in New York City and the Birdhouse Gallery in Austin.
Red is also a drag artist and performs under the name Keltnny Galliano.{{Cite news|url=https://www.nola.com/arts/index.ssf/2013/08/another_side_of_rapper_katey_r.html|title=Another side of rapper Katey Red, at a Decadence weekend drag extravaganza|last=Fensterstock|first=Alison|date=August 29, 2013|work=NOLA.com|access-date=June 21, 2018|language=en-US}}
Discography
= Studio albums =
- 1999: Melpomene Block Party
- 2000: Y2 Katey
- 2013: Katey's Hits
= Singles =
- 1999: "Melpomene Block Party"
- "The Punk Under Pressure"
= Music videos =
- 2011: "Where Da Melph At", directed by David S. White
- 2012: "Dreidel Song" by Gypsyphonic Disko, appears as featured artist{{Cite news|url=https://www.nola.com/music/index.ssf/2012/12/a_belated_hanukkah_bounce_vide.html|title=A belated Hanukkah bounce video from Gypsyphonic Disko and Katey Red|last=Fensterstock|first=Alison|date=December 17, 2012|work=NOLA.com|access-date=June 21, 2018|language=en-US}}
- 2013: "Don't Speak (Make Ya Booty Go)", directed by David S. White
= Collaborations =
- 2000: It's a G Thang by K.C. Redd – performing "Tiddy Bop" with K.C. Redd
- 2002: Choppa Style by Choppa – performing "Messy B***hes" with Choppa
- 2010: Ya-Ka-May by Galactic – performing "Katey Vs Nobby" with Sissy Nobby, U.S. Billboard Chart No. 161{{Cite magazine|url=https://www.billboard.com/artist/276281/galactic/chart|title=Galactic – Chart history|magazine=Billboard|language=en|access-date=June 21, 2018}}
- 2011: New Orleans Bounce Essentials, Vol. 2 – performing "That's My Juvie" with Magnolia Shorty
- 2013: Son of Rogues Gallery: Pirate Ballads, Sea Songs & Chanteys – performing "Sally Racket" with Big Freedia and Akron / Family
Filmography
Awards
In 2000, Red received the Best Emerging Rap/Hip-Hop Band or Performer at Offbeat magazine's Best of the Beat Awards.{{Cite news|url=http://www.offbeat.com/best-of-the-beat-award-winners-complete-list/|title=Best of the Beat Award Winners: Complete List|work=OffBeat Magazine|access-date=June 21, 2018|language=en-US}}
Personal life
Red married in 2017; her musical collaborator and friend Big Freedia was maid of honor.{{Cite news|url=https://www.fuse.tv/videos/2017/10/big-freedia-bounces-back-season-6-katey-red-wedding-thanks-freedia-607-deleted-scene|title='Big Freedia' Deleted Scene: Freedia & Katey Red's Touching Moment at Katey's Wedding|date=October 25, 2017|work=Fuse|access-date=June 21, 2018}}
References
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Category:Rappers from New Orleans
Category:African-American rappers
Category:African-American LGBTQ people
Category:American LGBTQ rappers
Category:LGBTQ people from Louisiana
Category:21st-century American rappers
Category:African-American drag queens
Category:Transgender drag performers
Category:21st-century African-American musicians
Category:20th-century African-American musicians
Category:21st-century American women rappers
Category:American transgender musicians