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.

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.

For lots more Joey Arias, visit his website.