Put your platforms on, we’re going to dance!
He added, “We have to choose it every day so we can fight the evil that is so pervasive. We can only fight it with love and I am so excited for my music for that.”
Meredith Truax
For the Emmy- and Tony-winning actor, singing and music were his “first love.” (He released albumUntitledin 1997 and several Broadway LPs since the, along with a Richard Rodgers tribute record in 2017.)
“I grew up singing in the church. When I first put out commercial music in 1997, the industry was not ready for all this Black Boy Joy!” he said in a press release. “But luckily the world has caught up. I could not be more thrilled to entrust this next chapter of my music career to the Island/Republic team.”
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“Make way children! Daddy’s back,” he added.
The track follows his feature onJessie J’s “I Want Love (twocolors Remix)” earlier this year.
Porter — who is set to release his memoirUnprotected— recentlyspoke to PEOPLEabout his iconic fashion and style choices.
“Posehappened and I was like, ‘Well, if there’s any space where the character that I’m playing supported the choices of being gender fluid on the red carpet, it would be the show. I have to do this now. And that’s how it evolved,” he said.
“All I’m doing is picking the clothes I want to wear. People say, ‘I could never pull that off.’ You know how you pull it off? Put it on,” he added.
source: people.com
